23 Sep, 2019 @ 10:25
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Virgin olive oil exports soar by almost 25% in Spain’s Andalucia thanks to reliable EU market

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ANDALUCIAN exports of virgin olive oil have increased by 24%, new figures have revealed. 

The value of the ‘liquid gold’ also increased by 5% year-on-year between October and June.

The Junta reported that some 440,409 tonnes were sold during the period, compared to 356,242 tonnes the year before.

The overwhelming majority of the oil was sold within the European Union while the remaining 126,020 went to countries outside the bloc.

It means the region earned €1,329,502,000 from virgin olive oil between October 2018 and June 2019.

It was a year-on-year increase of around €50 million.

Andalucia exports of other olive oils have also increased by 3% in volume, reaching a total of 123,875 tonnes, however their value has reduced by 23%, reaching €341,713,000.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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