10/24/2023 0 Comments Golden grove farmAll but two of these communities (the Basque Country and Galicia) saw the surface area of olive groves increase from 2020 to 2021. Olives are grown commercially in 15 of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities (Asturias and Cantabria are the odd ones out). See Also: Olive Oil Production in Spain Expected to Fall, Officials Say However, the expansion of Spain’s olive groves has not happened uniformly across the country. Of these groves, almost 93 percent – 2,573,396 hectares – are dedicated to olive oil production. Olive groves sprawl over 2,770,485 hectares – an area slightly larger than North Macedonia or Massachusetts – in the world’s largest olive oil-producing country, a 0.7‑percent increase compared with 2020. The amount of land dedicated to olive cultivation in Spain continues to expand, according to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food’s most recent land use survey.
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