Drought threatens Spain’s ‘green gold’ harvest
France24 says In the scorching heat, Felipe Elvira inspects the branches of his olive trees, planted as far as the eye can see on a dusty hillside in southern Spain.
“There are no olives on these. Everything is dry,” the 68-year-old said.
He and his son own a 100-hectare (250-acre) olive farm in the southern province of Jaen in sun-drenched Andalusia, a region which produces the bulk of the country’s olive oil.
But a severe drought gripping much of Spain threatens to shrivel their harvest this year.
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