The situation is so dire that it is on course to run out of home-grown oil by April, when it will have to import from countries such as Spain, Greece and Turkey
ROME — Italy faces the indignity of importing large quantities of olive oil after a combination of climate change, insect pests and disease has led to a dramatic drop in production.
Last year’s unusual weather inflicted an estimated euros 1 billion worth of damage on the olive oil sector, according to Coldiretti, the national farmers’ association. The third major factor to have hammered the sector is a bacterium, Xylella fastidiosa, which broke out in the southern region of Puglia and has killed hundreds of thousands of olive trees there.
The olive oil sector is worth euros 3 billion to the Italian economy, with the country maintaining about 200 million olive trees, some of them centuries old.
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