It’s over! Olive harvest ends on a dismal note

It’s the worst since at least 1999, and that’s official! With harvesting now concluded in Andalucia, this year’s olive crop is down around 57% on the 1.36 million tonnes of the 2011/2012 season, with such low levels not experienced for at least 14 years! In total 560,000 tonnes were expected to be harvested this season in Andalucia, according to the Young Farmers’ Association (Asaja) in Sevilla, but though olive harvesting has now ended locally, figures have not yet been released. Throughout Spain the total production figure is expected to be around 700,000 tonnes.