Drought spells 'catastrophe' for Spain's olive harvest
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"If something doesn't change radically in the next few weeks, it's going to be a catastrophe," he warned.
According to the AEMET weather agency, accumulated rainfall since October 1 has been 25 percent lower than normal across Spain and 50 percent lower in most of Andalusia, where reservoirs are at 25 percent capacity.
For Spain -- which normally supplies 50 percent of the world's olive oil and exports close to 3.0 billion euros ($3.3 billion) worth every year -- the situation is even more worrying given the sector's disastrous output in 2021-2022.
During that season too, a lack of rain and extreme temperatures saw olive oil production plummeting 55 percent to 660,000 tonnes, compared to 1.48 million tonnes in 2021-2022, agriculture ministry figures show.
The scene is set to play out again this year.
Droughts will only get worse...I am thankful I live in the PNW and even we having glaciers melting and shyt...I don't wanna know the temperatures 10 years from now
The animals suffer the most...especially in AFRICA. They already fight for meager resources...all sharing a dirty ass waterhole where hippogang shyt and sleep in all day ...the dry seasons are becoming longer for them
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"If something doesn't change radically in the next few weeks, it's going to be a catastrophe," he warned.
According to the AEMET weather agency, accumulated rainfall since October 1 has been 25 percent lower than normal across Spain and 50 percent lower in most of Andalusia, where reservoirs are at 25 percent capacity.
For Spain -- which normally supplies 50 percent of the world's olive oil and exports close to 3.0 billion euros ($3.3 billion) worth every year -- the situation is even more worrying given the sector's disastrous output in 2021-2022.
During that season too, a lack of rain and extreme temperatures saw olive oil production plummeting 55 percent to 660,000 tonnes, compared to 1.48 million tonnes in 2021-2022, agriculture ministry figures show.
The scene is set to play out again this year.
Droughts will only get worse...I am thankful I live in the PNW and even we having glaciers melting and shyt...I don't wanna know the temperatures 10 years from now
The animals suffer the most...especially in AFRICA. They already fight for meager resources...all sharing a dirty ass waterhole where hippogang shyt and sleep in all day ...the dry seasons are becoming longer for them