A travel day today… just a short train trip to Seville. The afternoon was spent doing laundry, checking out places we’ll need later in the stay such as our departure point for our side trip to Morocco, our hotel on our late return (midnight), and off for a nice dinner this evening.
Googling on the train, I found out that:
Spain is the world’s undisputed leader in olive oil production, traditionally supplying between 40% and 50% of the entire global market with Andalusia accounting for 78.7% of the total Spanish output.
Following severe droughts and heatwaves in 2023 and 2024 that constrained global supplies, Spain’s olive oil sector has experienced a massive recovery. According to the latest official metrics, Spain is projected to produce 1.60 million metric tonnes of olive oil for the 2026/27 harvest, marking a 23% increase year-on-year.
An Google informed me:
Andalusia is Spain’s top producing region of sweet, edible oranges, having officially overtaken the Valencian Community in production volume since 2019. In the current 2026/2027 agricultural season, Andalusia’s sweet orange harvest has bounced back significantly from past droughts, reaching a massive 1.4 million tons (part of an overall 2.11 million-ton regional citrus crop). This accounts for more than half of Spain’s total national orange production. This excludes the tons of inedible oranges that line the streets.
Out this evening for a nice dinner at La Malvaloca, just next to the impressive installation “Setas de Sevilla” (Mushrooms of Seville)
Doesn’t look like there’s a lot of ice
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