Spain’s olive oil farmers call for probe into price manipulation

Alleged price manipulation by olive oil distributors should be probed by Spain’s competition watchdog, one of the country’s main farm unions says. COAG said its lawyers were preparing data to present to the National Competition Commission (CNC) next week to back the call for an inquiry. COAG-Jaén General Secretary Juan Luis Ávila Castro told Olive Oil Times the fact that ex-mill prices were falling amid Spain’s worst harvest in 20 years and very low stocks, was telling.