We have stocks of Italian extra virgin olive oil double compared to a year ago. They were 71.855 as of April 30, 2025, are 143.951 on the same day of this 2026With a market that continues to look elsewhere, given that in one month (April) it was not possible to sell even 10 thousand tons of quality national oil.
The data emerging from the April Fraud Repression Report are thought-provoking. Data that indicates a total amount of oil in storage between mills, storers and packagers equal to 291.727 tons, 42,3% more than the 205.032 of the same period of the previous year.
Of these they are classified as extra virgin 234.340 tons, and therefore with over 90 thousand tons of foreign EVO between EU (65 thousand tons), non-EU (15 thousand, an increase compared to last year) and mixed (9.500).
More 50 thousand tons concern oils of minor types, among which theolive pomace oil (almost 22 thousand tons, of which 10 thousand equally distributed between the provinces of Agrigento and Bari) glaring (15 thousand tons, of which almost half in Calabria), the refined (13 thousand, with more than two thirds located in the province of Lucca).
The weight of the oil industry is determined by the fact that the province of Perugia (with 25 thousand tons) is second only to that of Bari (54 thousand tons) in terms of oil stocks, in front of the province of BAT – Barletta, Andria and Trani, and with the provinces of Siena, Florence and Lucca to follow.
Equal to 46 thousand tons of organic oil, of which 36 thousand are Italian extra virgin, stored mainly in Puglia (19 thousand tons) and Calabria (9.300).
The report also shows that among the certified oils, behind Terre di Bari Dop with over 10 million liters waiting to be marketed, there are the Sicilian oils with the island’s PGI (over 3,3 million litres) and the Val di Mazara PDO (1,6 million), with the Calabria PGI (1,3 million) which overtakes the Tuscan PGI (1,2 million).
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