New Eco-Friendly Olive Oil Mill In Lleida

The agricultural adviser to Cataluña’s Regional Government, Joaquim Llena, recently inaugurated a new, highly-efficient olive oil mill for the Lleida cooperative built from a joint investment of 2 million Euros. The new mill will occupy a surface area of some 4,500 square meters and will serve more than a thousand olive growers in Spain’s northern regions.

The new highly-advanced mega-mill can function without interruption and has the capacity to process around 350,000 kilos of olives each day. At the end of a year’s worth of work, the Lleida cooperative predicts that the new mill will have processed around 9 million kilos of olives, resulting in close to 2 million kilos of extra virgin olive oil.

Mr. Llena explained that almost 30% of the 2 million Euro investment, a total of 700,000 Euros, was contributed by Cataluña’s Department of Agriculture as part of a regional effort to modernize outdated and inefficient cooperatives in the midst of the worldwide olive oil pricing crisis.

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