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Olive oil in Andalusia The Andalusian is one of the people whose culture is more closely tied to oil. Andalusia is the main producer of olive oil in the world. The Andalusian production in 2005/2006 marketing year is estimated to be 565,000 t, is between 65 and 80 of Spanish production (depending on whether we take as reference data of the world olive products or those provided by the Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries of Andalusia) and 22 of the world. Despite the relevance of these data do not show accurately the specific gravity of world production in Andalusia since the 2005/2006 campaign has been disastrous for the olive groves of Andalusia. Despite being a bad year for the production of Andalusia, the only Italian production would exceed the Andalusian (which is not the case for many years), exceeding the production of Andalusia to the Greek and all the rest of the world. The data by province are also significant, as in a bad year like this, just as the province of Jaen champion producer, with more than 250,000 t would be in third place worldwide, just behind Italy and Greece. It should be remembered that half of Jaen in recent years exceeds 600,000 tons. But in Jaen, the absolute record clearly falls on the county of La Loma, which became a sea of olive trees. Loma alone covers more than a quarter of the olive oil production in the province of Jaen, and thus the share of Spain leads. Municipalities of Ja n world by highlighting the sheer volume they produce, are in this order: Tuesday, ubeda, Villacarrillo, Baeza, and Vilches. The following Andalusian provinces with the highest olive oil production are after Jaen Cordova (with producers nucleos Baena, Bujalance and Priego de Cordoba) (170,000 tons), Granada (56,000), Seville (49,725) and Malaga (42,000)....