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Spain is a global benchmark and leader in olive oil production and marketing, with an olive grove area that continues to grow; in 2024, the United States increased its imports by almost 60%, although shipments may decline due to the tariff policy threatened by Donald Trump. Spain boasts around 25% of the world's olive grove surface, which increases year after year; around 93% of its extension is dedicated to oil production and the rest to table olive production. The surface of this woody crop occupied 2,830,330 hectares at the end of 2024, 179,529 hectares more than in 2017. Spain produces around 50% of the world's olive oils and has more than 200 olive varieties, such as Arberquina, Hojiblanca, Cornicabra, or Picual, which provide differentiated flavors and aromas to each batch. Spain's average production in the last 20 years is 1.214 million tons, with two campaigns heavily marked by drought (672,100 t in 2022/23 and 843,400 t in 2023/24). In the current 2024/25 campaign, which ...

In the first days of May 2025, 53,000 lambs were shipped from the port of Cartagena to countries outside the European Union. Spain annually exports close to half a million live sheep and cattle.

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has defended this Thursday the strategic importance of the European Union (EU)-Mercosur agreement, assuring that it will benefit sectors such as olive oil and wine, which are so important for Spain and Italy. Planas met in Rome with his Italian counterpart, Francesco Lollobrigida, before another meeting with the Director General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Qu Dongyu, on the eve of the UN organization's Conference of Agriculture Ministers. Amid the trade war unleashed by the President of the United States, Donald Trump, by threatening to impose strong tariffs on his trading partners, the agreement between the EU and Mercosur has been one of the central topics of the meeting between the Spanish and Italian ministers, according to a statement from the Ministry. Planas highlighted to Lollobrigida that this is a good agreement that, among other sectors, will benefit the olive oil and ...