+20% for the Italian organic olive oil market

According to ISMEA - the Italian Institute for the Agro-food Market - the expanditure for organic olive oil in Italy rised by a +20% in the firs 9 months of 2010.

Generally speaking, the domestic purchases of organic food generally rised o+11% in the same period, mainly in the hypermarkets (+21,7%) while supermarkets decreased by a-1% compared to the same time frame in 2009.
Sells rised mainly in Southern Italy, the largest producer but the smaller retail market (Sicily +25,3%), folowed by the North-Eastern area (+15,4%), North-Western area (+9,7%) and the Central Italy (+3,3%).

Organic food consumption is still concentrated in Northern Italy (70%).

http://www.ismea.it/flex/cm/pages/ServeBLOB.php/L/IT/IDPagina/5622

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Organic Olive Oil Production Worldwide - Trends

Dear all, here you can find our estimantions for the organic olive oil production internationally in the latest years. Estimations are based upon data provided by several institutes, mainly Ifoam and Eurostat.