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2014 was a terrible year for producers of extra-virgin olive oil in Italy. Among oil fly (Bactrocera oleae), Xylella fastidiosa, a collapse of production, scams and inquests 2014 was a year to forget for Italian sector of oil Italian. To a decline in domestic production, in fact, is match a massive entry of foreign low-quality oil, bottled in Italy and peddled as extra-virgin, with a very low cost, also it injured those producers who were able to produce excellent oil, although in small quantities.

2015 saw an increase in production by 30% over the previous year, but the big problem of counterfeit food continues to damage the producers of Italian extra-virgin, who cannot compete with the ridiculous prices of foreign low-quality oil.

Not to mention the problem Xylella, which continues to rage, especially in Salento, one of the main Italian production areas, where it was established a state of emergency, investigations were opened, felled trees, seized plantations, but did not solve in any way the problem.

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