date:Mar 06, 2014
in 2013.
With 2.5 million hectares of planting area and 310 million olive trees, Spain contributes more than half of the world's total olive oil production. It shipped 18,700 metric tons of the oil to China in the first three quarters of 2013, up 13 percent from the same period a year earlier, according to the Beijing-based China Chamber of Commerce of Foodstuffs and Native Produce.
Despite the fact that olive oil accounts for only 1 percent of China's total edible oil consumption, the country