olive tree bacterial infection (1)

2017 will be a very bad year for olive oil. Two of the world’s largest olive oil producers have endured consecutive years of bad harvests. In Spain, an unusually hot and dry summer just led to the worst harvest in nearly 20 years. While Italian producers have suffered an outbreak of the Xylella fastidiosa bacteria among olive groves, with more than a million trees infected. 

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