Italy counts about one million firms for olive growing and produce. Olive trees grow from Trento to Agrigento, including Sardinia. .
The commercial value of the produce at base price in the olive sector reaches 2 billion Euros and covers a work market of above 50 million working days per year in the whole country. Italy has a patrimony of over 250 million trees of more than 350 different varieties, pride of the wealth of tastes and colours of the thousand differences in the Italian countryside. We have 43 oils with a Protected Denomination of Origin geographical indication (DOP) and one Protected Geographical Indication (IGP), and a total production of olive oil reaching an average of 550,000 short tons.