Despite a fruitful crop year, the future of Chalkidiki olives is threatened as winter temperatures rise and precipitation falls.
New research from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki has found that the emerging, climate change-fueled weather pattern in the northern Chalkidiki peninsula in Greece could jeopardize the region’s olive farmers.
Forty kilometers north of Málaga, in the heart of Andalusia’s Axorquia region, the tiny village of Riogordo will celebrate its annual olive oil culture festival despite current COVID-19 containment measures. This year, La Molienda de Riogordo will also inaugurate an online companion event, which will take place a few days before the festival and is dedicated to the many English-speaking residents of the region.
After a cold winter followed by a hot growing season, Egypt is expecting low returns in terms of its olive oil production. However, the possibility of a late surge for certain cultivars remains. The forecast comes as Egypt, the world’s second-largest table olive producer, is in the midst of planting 100 million olive trees by the end of next year.
It should be noted that prices, of all quality categories, are continuously rising during last months mainly because the news from Spain have been confirming not only that this year production will be under 700 thousand tons, but, even worse, the continuation of drought and the early heatwave of April jeopardize a very poor harvest for the coming marketing year 2023/24.
The National Observatory for Agriculture estimated that olive oil production may decrease by up to 70 percent if greenhouse gas emissions continue at their current rate.
Agricultural officials in Tunisia worry that the unmitigated effects of climate change, including rapidly rising greenhouse gas emissions, could bring the annual average production down to 61,000 tons.
In global terms, forecasts for Portugal point to a 25% decrease in olive production for olive oil production compared to the previous season, to 734,000 tonnes compared to 979,000 tonnes. a year earlier, according to the Portuguese National Institute of Statistics.
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