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<pre>Dear Friends,

Please welcome me as a new member of this list.
I am mainly a historian of the pre-industrial Mediterranean
and I have done some research on agriculture, including
olive growing and trade in the late antiquity period, with
a focus on western Greece and southern Italy. Also I live
in an olive-producing region of western Greece.

In this context I am interested in gathering some current
production and trade statistics on a regional basis. I have
already found many of the websites offering statistics on a
nation-wide basis, while for Spain, for example, I found the
ASOLIVA website which does have some useful numbers
for the country's regions.

Can anyone recommend websites with country production
and trade statistics on a regional basis, perhaps other industry
association sites analogous to that of ASOLIVA? I am particularly
interested in the regions of Greece and southern Italy, but also
those of some other Mediterranean countries.

I already have the country-wide statistics files in PDF from
the International Olive Oil Council which, though they have some
information on regions of EU countries, they are otherwise of
little use.

Besides English, I can read Greek, Italian, Spanish, French
and Portuguese (unfortunately no Arabic, Turkish, Albanian,
or Serbo-Croatian).

Thank you in advance for you kind assistance.

Sincerely,

Steve
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