Five people have been arrested and four others charged in Montoto, Córdoba, in connection with the sale of ‘illegally obtained’ olives.
There’s always one…
While 99.9% of participants were wafting olive branches of every size from a couple of leaves to huge tree-like objects, one person either obviously felt left out or couldn’t distinguish between an olive and a bottlebrush, so there is one less bright red bloom in Plaza de la Ermita.
ASAJA handing out olives in Sevilla
At 10:30 today, Wednesday, the agrarian association ASAJA will be giving away 5,000 kilos of table olives in Sevilla as a protest against prices and the general state of the industry.
Disagreement over the price of olives
ASAJA, the Málaga Association of Young Farmers, has denied reports by the Federación Agroalimentaria of the UGT union that they are selling table olives at a price of €0.80, saying that the price of Hojiblanca olives has fallen to €0.33 in October.