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This map shows how the land will be within 250 million years. If fulfilled, Spain will be very lucky

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About 200 million years ago, the last supercontinent began to fragment. THE PANGEA DIVISION He gave way, very little by little, to the current geological composition. But that which separated will join again. The continents continue to movecolliding with each other, and a theory points out that it will be in 250 million years when another supercontinent arises. We have baptized it as PANGEA Ultimaand the truth is that it will give exactly the same what countries we have as neighbors. PANGEA Ultima. Plate tectonics It is curious because they continue to move under each other, and that is what has led to the theory of Continental derives. These movements are studied to understand the past, as well as to decipher the future, and one of those scholars is Christopher Scotese. This American geographer is the creator of the Paleomap Projectwhich seeks to show not only how the elements have moved these last 1,000 million years, but the prediction of that supercontinent future. And Scote elaborated This map: Who is the one who has inspired The one that opens this article: Curious neighbors. According to this, within 50 million years North America would have turned so much that Alaska would be in a subtropical latitude and Eurasia would also turn, but in the opposite direction, making Great Britain be closer to the North Pole. Africa will get closer to Europe and Arabia, disappearing both the Red and Mediterranean Sea and, within 100 million years, the Atlantic will start diminishing. It will be 150 million years when the Atlantic disappears as a result of being sucked by the American continent, bringing much more America and that block composed of Eurasia and Africa. And the culmination will occur within 200 million years how much that new supercontinent is formed, with the Indian as central sea and a curious neighborhood mixture. According to this model, Latin America would be more or less the same, but with African neighbors in the east. Cuba would be stuck to the United States, Greenland would be next to Canada (bad luck, Trump) and Spain would continue to bordered France and Portugal, but also with Italy, Morocco, Tunisia and Algeria. England would also have stuck to France and Korea would be in a curious sandwich between Japan and China. It will give exactly the same. But the truth is that it doesn’t matter what your new neighbors seem, not because, obviously, you will not be there to suffer them, but because it is possible that humanity has become extinguished by then. Not because we sometimes strive in it, but because conditions will not be the most suitable for the life of mammals. In a study Published in Nature, the researchers predicted that 92% of the land would be Inhabitable for mammals. The reason is that, in a simulation of the climate of this new supercontinent, it is estimated that the temperatures of much of Pangea Ultima will be more than 40ºC, but also the amounts of CO₂ will make the life of the mammals … complicated. Due to the number of shocks between plaques, there will be a great volcanic activity that will increase the CO₂ EMISSIONS TO THE ATMOSPHERA, heating not only the planet, but promoting that the levels of that co₂ bend to the current ones. In addition, the Sun will be 2.5% luminous at that time because its nuclear fusion rhythm will have increased and is something that will contribute to the planet, in addition, to be drier. Spain or so bad. It is not a panorama too encouraging, the truth, since plant life will also experience a massive extinction, but researchers point out that conditions may not be so bad in all parts of the New World. Thus, those closest to the upper part of the North Pole, could have cooler conditions that will facilitate a better adaptation to life. And Spain, Portugal, Morocco or England are in that stage. There is also the possibility that we become specialists in desert environments, becoming night animals in something similar to what is seen in ‘Dune‘. Alexander Farnsworth, one of the researchers who have simulated the climatic conditions of that future, also analyzed From the most serious point of view how life makes its way in Arrakis’s climate and points to that parallelism with the land within 250 million years. One more. Is it this how the land of within 250 million years will be seen? Namely, but there are several hypotheses formulated these last decades that, in one way or another, point to the existence of that supercontinent. One is Novopangeawhere the Pacific will close. Another is Auricawith the closure of both Atlantic and the Pacific. And another model is Amasiawith the union between Asia and America. And the model does not care, they are still similar to the Last Pangea And, after that new supercontinent, the estimate is that the Atlantic will open again, separating the countries and starting a new cycle of rupture. What will happen to life? Well, it will make its way, as the great Jeff Goldblum already said in ‘Jurassic Park‘, because mass extinctions … There have been several. Image | Caffete In Xataka | The land has moons that we do not know: exploring them is key to revealing the secrets of our solar system

Juan Roig believes that domestic cuisine has the days counted. There are eight million Spaniards who are already beginning to prove him

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“I said it and I maintain it: in the middle of the 21st century there will be no kitchens”, with that simple phrase, Juan Roig (the executive president of Mercadona) summarized the future Of his company just a month ago: it was not only a banal prediction, it was a declaration of intentions. Then half Spain He was thrown on him. But there was something that half Spain did not know and Roig, yes: there are already eight million people who resort to the prepared dishes of the supermarket. And it’s just the beginning. What is happening? If we go to the datawe can see that, in recent decades, home cuisine had been in clear decline. Millenials ate 30% more often in restaurants than any other generation; When they cooked, they spent less time (one hour less than the week X) and, when they bought, they opted more for prepared meals, pasta and sweets than the rest. They are US data, but We could find A similar process in all Western countries It is true that in recent years the situation seemed to have changed (the survey World Cooking Index Gallupfor example, said that homemade cuisine had increased 10% in Spain in 2022 compared to 2018). However, everything seems to indicate that it is something close to pandemic that, little by little, everything returns to previous trends. And that have been seen from supermarkets. The figures The Kantar consultancy was given This same March and fit as a glove with another good number of related data. As Elena L. Villalvilla explainedduring 2024 Spanish households consumed more than 700,000 tons of prepared dishes: that is 17 kilos per head. Which represents an increase of 6.6 % compared to the previous year. The same data presented Roig last month confirmed the trend. The precooked dishes section of the supermarket chain “is already profitable and continues to grow.” In fact, it is present in 1200 of the 1600 establishments and follows an ambitious incorporation program (salmon with vegetables, roasted vegetables with romesco sauce, roasted rib or seafood salad). But the bet goes further. At least in Mercadona. As explained in DAP“The disappearance of kitchens not only translates into a greater offer of prepared dishes, but also in a simplification of fresh products, destined to reduce the time we dedicate to the kitchen. “ The best example is the fish market section in which the products ready for cooking are increasingly weight without the intervention of any store in store. And why? From the Kantar point of view, the explanations are very simple: “comfort, lack of time and the increasingly elaborate and healthy proposals by supermarkets.” As explained by the Director of Great Consumption ClientsVeronika Khurshudyan, in Infobae, consumers “not only buy food, look for solutions.” This is the background key: solutions. Because, deep down, the twentieth century has been a century in which more and more food process stages have been taken out of domestic kitchens. Today, our country Only 28% of the Spaniards cooks from fresh foods. Fourth range foods (raw packaging, minimally processed and ready for cooking) began to introduce in the late 80s in Spain. And, although they have been with us for 35 years, Only recently have they introduced themselves completely. Just behind the fifth range: an arrival that It was truncated by the pandemicbut that has already recovered and takes speed. That is based on Roig’s prophecy; But, above all, that is based on a good part of the key changes in the food of the future. Image | Deski Jayantoro | Joana Costa In Xataka | Mercadona fried eggs are an example of how in the future the kitchen will be recreational, not food

They have rewarded them with 5.3 million dollars

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The artificial intelligence drivers They have not been warning that this technology The world will change at levels of what did the arrival of electricity or internet. Two 21 -year -old girls named Chungin “Roy” Lee and Neel Shanmugam have created an AI tool to “cheat in everything.” With her, Lee surpassed a technical test without problems In the selection process For practices on Amazon, but it also cost him the expulsion from Columbia University for “having cheated.” Now, Shanmugam and Lee have created A startup To develop their “cheat” tool of AI and some investors have believed that their idea was so brilliant, that it was worth giving it a vote of confidence. A vote of 5.3 million dollars, nothing less. A “help” of AI Such and as he collected CNBCLee was a student at Columbia University who was looking to do practices in some technological. The student considered that the technical test during the interview was a proceeding completely unnecessary for the position he was running. Therefore, he decided to create a tool based on AI that he called Interview Coder. This tool was installed in the browser and analyzed everything that happened on the user’s screen, passing totally unnoticed by the interviewer. In this way, the AI ​​tool offered solutions to the programming problems that were raised during the test and answered questions so that Roy Lee did not have an immediate answer. With that help, Lee got practices on Amazon. According to The published By the University newspaper of the University of Columbia, Lee and his partner Neel Shanmugam were expelled as a disciplinary action for using Interview Coder in their work interviews. Something that the university considered as unusual, as can be seen from the disciplinary document that the student himself made public In his X profile. Far from hiding their invention and outside the ethical dilemmas that the tool raised for the university, the young people obtained unexpected success with their application, which in principle was sold for a quota of between 25 and 60 dollars per month and openly promoted it on social networks. Given their success, both ex -studies constituted a startup called Cluely to develop the project professionally. They are not traps, it is the future Despite the controversy arising from ethical interpretations about the use of the AI ​​tool, Roy Lee and Shanmugam’s vision seems to have excited investors. As read confirmed Since their LinkedIn profile, the capital funds Abstract Ventures and Susa Ventures have supported the project with an initial investment of 5.3 million dollars. The reasons are explained by their founders in a manifesto published on the Cluely page. “Every time technology makes us smarter, the world panic. Then adapt. Later it is forgotten. And suddenly, it is normal,” wrote the creators of the application. The financial support of these investors reveals that they share the idea that the use of AI to expedite processes It should not be considered cheatbut a natural evolution towards greater efficiency at work. In their manifesto, the ex -studies emphasize that AI is not a trap, but a tool to obtain better results faster, equating its use to the calculators, the spelling concealer and even Google. The ethical debate about AI The case of Lee and Shanmugam reflects the ethical dilemma that is slowing down the adoption of AI at workwhere employees still feel that when using AI to expedite their productive processes They are cheating. However, as the founders of Cluelly highlight, today nobody questions the use of calculators to solve complex operations on a day -to -day basis or the use of Google to look for information quickly. Surely, that idea is the one that has led investors to deposit their trust (and their money) in the idea that Cluely proposes. When that “normality” that reads and Shanmugam arrives in their manifesto, they will be there to collect the benefits. Without a doubt, the difference could be in context. It is reasonable that the use of calculators, spelling or Google correctors is limited, when it is about evaluating real knowledge that they have. Using it during an examination of mathematics or language, whose objective is to see the ability to perform the calculation process or the knowledge of grammar and spelling, would be to make an ethical use of these tools. The same could be said of a technical test in a job interview. In Xataka | Someone used AI to overcome an interview on Amazon. His success has made Google see his candidates face to face Image | Cluely

prevent plasma at 150 million ºC to destroy the reactor

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The adjective “titanic” fits as a glove if our intention is to describe the reactor of nuclear fusion experimental ITER (International Thermonuclear Experctor reactor), The machine that an international consortium led by Europe He is building in the French town of Cadarache. This ingenuity is titanic for its dimensions. Also by The size of the challenges that raises. Even for its ambition. Inside His huge vacuum chamber 29 x 29 meters stainless steel, with a weight of 3,850 tons and a volume of 16,000 m³ an extremely powerful magnetic field a gas that is at a temperature of at least 150 million degrees Celsius. It is necessary that this plasma reaches this temperature because in these conditions the deuterium and tritium nuclei that contains acquire the kinetic energy they need to overcome their natural electrical repulsion. Almost without realizing we have repaired in one of the great challenges that the nuclear fusion entails: it is necessary that the plasma reaches that extreme temperature because on the earth we do not have the intense gravitational field that helps the stars to keep on “the nuclear oven”. And less pressure implies more temperature if our purpose is to recreate the necessary conditions so that the fusion reactions between the deuterium and tritium nuclei take place. To monitor the temperature, a lot has needed to develop a lot of technology The most exposed components not only at the extreme temperature of the plasma, but also to the action of high energy neutrons that it is not possible to confine inside the magnetic field are Tungsten shields that cover the inner mantle of the vacuum chamber and the diving. These components must withstand the bombardment of plasma high energy neutrons, transforming their kinetic heat into heat. To release this thermal energy and refrigerate the diving is responsible for the water that circulates inside. The diving is responsible for purifying plasma, allowing the extraction of the ashes and impurities resulting from the nuclear fusion reaction The tungsten has been chosen to put the shields exposed to plasma because this is the metal that has the highest melting point: nothing less than 3,422 degrees Celsius. In addition, the diving is responsible for purifying plasma, allowing The extraction of ashes and impurities resulting from the nuclear fusion reaction and plasma interaction with the most exposed layer of the mantle. In any case during the reactor operation, it is necessary to monitor the temperature that the components most exposed to the plasma action reaches. If the tungsten shields, the diving or any other component of the vacuum chamber exceeds its maximum temperature threshold could be irremediably damaged. And changing one of these pieces in a 23,000 tons machine is not at all pathered bread. Fortunately, engineers who participate in Iter have resolved this challenge. In the cover photography of this article we can see the machine used to carry out the thermal cycles tests to which the prototype of a mirror has been subjected to the National Institute of Aerospace Technique of Spain, which is one of the research institutions that have participated in the project. And is that precisely to measure the temperature of the components most exposed to the plasma, the engineers of Iter will use A great angle vision system which uses several mirrors manufactured with great precision to collect the visible and infrared light from the diversion and the main wall of the camera. This architecture will allow to measure the temperature of all surfaces in real time, so that the reactor operators can identify if a component is overheat and prevent damage in time. This system brings together no less than 15 independent lines of vision that will be housed in four different locations of the vacuum chamber with the purpose of covering 80% of the internal surfaces. Spectacular. Image | Fusion for Energy More information | Fusion for Energy In Xataka | China is unstoppable in nuclear fusion: the construction of its own iter is aimed at beating all records

The European Commission fine to Apple and Meta with 500 and 200 million euros. They are condemned to make changes, want or not

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The European Commission has imposed a fine to Apple and goal worth 500 and 200 million eurosrespectively. According to the authority, both companies have breached the Digital Markets Law (DMA). Both amounts reflect both the severity and the duration of the breach of the law. Apple’s case. The European Commission has determined that the company has breached its obligation not to prevent the redirection of users towards offers and purchases outside App Store. Determining a amount of 500 million euros for its sanction. All developers who distribute their apps through this store must be able to inform users about alternative offers outside it. Due to restrictions imposed by Apple, according to the commission, developers cannot benefit from the advantages offered by alternative distribution channels to App Store. Also, consumers cannot access different offers outside those offered in the store itself. The goal case. For the Zuckerberg platform, Europe determines that the obligation to offer consumers the option of using advertising service that uses less personal data is breached. Specifically, it refers to the model of ‘Consent or pay’ introduced in 2023and that was already declared illegal since its launch. The changes. The Commission has ordered Apple to eliminate technical and commercial restrictions on redirection, warning that it must refrain from continuing with similar behaviors in the future. It has a period of 60 days to apply changes, or will face periodic sanctions. “If a user rejects this consent, he must have access to a less personalized but equivalent alternative.” European Commission in 2024 Similar is the case of Facebook, who has forced its users to pay to avoid the assignment of their data. In July 2024, the European Commission warned about a possible millionaire fine in case of not offering alternatives. Fine. In March 2024, The EU was appropriate to Apple with 1,800 euros (almost 0.5% of its annual income) after the demand of Spotify. The reason was quite similar to that of the current sanction: “abusing its dominant position in the music distribution market for music streaming to iPhone and Ipad users through their App Store.” Just three days ago, France (the Authorité de la Concurrence) I fined 150 million euros for abuse of dominant position between 2021 and 2023 in the advertising segment in mobile applications. Meta is not something new either. In November The European Commission fined almost 800 million euros for violating the antimonopoolio standards of the European Union with its Facebook Marketplace service. A year earlier, he received a fine of 1,200 million euros for not complying with the General Data Protection Regulation. Image | Xataka and Meta In Xataka | Meta has a very long history by replicating rival applications to become gold. Edits is the most recent case

OpenAI goes for Windsurf for 3,000 million dollars, according to Bloomberg

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As he has advanced Bloomberg and has confirmed later CNBC citing its own sources, OpenAi is negotiating the purchase of a programming assistance startup to compete directly in the developer tool market. It’s about Windsurf. Windsurf is a startup with a programming assistant similar to COPILOT. And OpenAi is valuing a possible acquisition for 3,000 million dollars. Why is it important. The purchase would be a strategic movement to compete in the software development market in the AI ​​era. Openai would go into direct competition with Microsoft (its largest investor) and Anysphere, manufacturer of Cursora similar tool. This operation tells us something about Openai: not only wants a great general use model, but to move to at least one more concrete and niche product. Between the lines. This purchase can generate tensions. If OpenAi Buy Windsurf, it will compete directly with the suite Microsoft development, especially with Github Copilot, which dominates the code assistant market with AI. It would not be The first recent trenching between Openai and Microsoft. The context. He Rumore Rumore It arrives just after the launch of OPENAI O3 and O4-MODE and the closure of a financing round of 40,000 million. The IA developed tool market is exploiting. The trend Vibe Codingwhich seeks to generate code based on short descriptions, is being one of the fashions of the year. Windsurf competes in this space with cursor (valued at 10,000 million), Replit and Microsoft solutions. With only 40 million dollars in annual income (five times less than cursor), Windsurf seems more a commitment to talent and technology than for the business they already generate. And now what. The conversations are still underway and the agreement is not closed yet, according to Bloomberg and CNBC. If concretized, the shadow of American anti -protection regulators would soon appear. Especially for the complex relationship between OpenAI and Microsoft. For developers, this purchase would mean some questions about possible changes in the prices and integration of Windsurf with OpenAi APIS. In Xataka | Openai’s hypothetical social network does not want to connect people. Want your data to train your AI Outstanding image | Windsurf, Openai, Xataka with Mockuuuup Studio

An empire of 44,000 million is trembling

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The protectionist measures imposed by the Trump administration against Chinese products They threaten Shein’s business model in the United Stateswhich represents 28% of its global turnover,, precisely when the company was preparing its IPO in London, and once had already received green light from British regulators. Evil Timing. Why is it important. The Shein model is based on ultra -grape production in China with very tight margins. Tariffs will force you to choose between raising prices – losing your great claim and competitive advantage – or absorbing the cost and seeing your margins, which do not have much idem, drastically reduced. In figures. Shein billed around 12,500 million euros in the United States last year, which represents more than a quarter of its total income estimated at 44,000 million euros, 55% more than in 2023. The latest. The Trump government has eliminated a key tariff exemption for Shein’s business model. Until now, the company could send products from China to US consumers without paying tariffs provided that the order was less than 800 dollars, known as rule “of minimis” that was threatened Since Trump was re -elected. As of May, these shipments must pay a fixed rate of $ 75, which will increase to $ 150 in June. Between bambalins. According to Reuters, Shein is encouraging her biggest suppliers to move her production to Vietnam to dodge tariffs, although Shein denies it. They would not be the first to take a similar step. According to the testimonies collected by the agency, some Chinese manufacturers have seen their reducted orders up to 50% since the Chinese New Year, a few weeks ago. Several factor owners in Guangzhou, an area known as “Shein villages“They confirm that their orders are decreasing. A manufacturer named Li, who has been working with Shein for five years, says his orders have fallen in half. Yes, but. Shein continues to grow in other key markets such as: Germany (6.6% of its turnover) United Kingdom (6%) France (5.4%) ¡Spain! (3.6%, approximately 1,580 million euros) And now what. Shein must now convince investors that she can maintain her business model and growth prospects despite the coup in her main market. The IPO in London, which still requires the approval of Chinese regulators (already has that of the British), will be the definitive proof of market confidence in their ability to adapt. The contrast. While Shein invests 10,000 million yuan (1,370 million dollars) in industrial projects in southern China, including a logistics center of 500 million dollars in Guangzhou, according to Reuterssimultaneously seems to be diversifying its production towards Vietnam. The Cut He informs that Shein will implement “price adjustments” as of April 25, recognizing that “due to the recent changes in the rules and tariffs of global trade, our operating expenses have increased.” In Xataka | Boeing, trapped in the commercial war. China paralyzes the deliveries of its airplanes and Airbus gains ground, according to Bloomberg Outstanding image | APPSHUNTER.IO in Unspash

has bought Freeow for 175 million euros

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Lyft He has announced today The definitive agreement for the acquisition of Freeow, belonging to BMW and Mercedes-Benz, for 175 million euros in cash. This marks the definitive landing of this company in Europe, where until now it did not operate. Freeow does not disappear. The German company will continue to operate independently, and according to the Lyft statement it will maintain its current management team and all its employees. The objective, those responsible highlights, is to continue promoting their growth in 9 countries and more than 150 cities in Ireland, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Spain, Italy, Poland, France and Austria. Your market is doubled. The operation represents the most relevant international expansion of Lyft out of North America, and assumes that it practically doubles its total market. The annual projection will exceed 300,000 million journeys, and it is estimated that gross reserves reach 1,000 million euros per year, thus doubling the income that the company had so far. From Mytaxi to Freeow and Lyft. Mytaxi was founded in 2009 by two German entrepreneurs. In September 2014, the Daimler Group bought the parent company of MyTaxi, Intelligent Apps, and in 2016 the platform merged with the British Hailo. BMW would form a joint-venture with Mercedes-Benz in February 2019, and a few months later Mytaxi would definitely become Freeow. The border between taxis and uber/cabify/Lyft is blurred. The controversy that surrounded the arrival of the VTC and that threatened the taxi sector It ended up solving and today both types of private transport live together and in fact they have intermingled. Uber or Cabify applications have allowed for years they allow Reserve paths both in conventional and VTC taxis transparently for the user. In recent years, yes, the sector was regulated and for example licenses to the VTC were limitedalthough the Speculation with licenses Not having a brake. More competitors. Lyft will despite a tough competition in Europe, not only by Uber, but also by companies such as Cabify in Spain or Bolt, another of the platforms that It has been operating for a few years also in our country and is growing in the old continent. In Xataka | Barcelona taxi drivers will not cover one of the most tourist points in the city. They don’t want problems with their neighbors

Renfe aspired to win 5,000 million euros with an AVE in the US copying Japan. His government has just kill him

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Unite the cities of Dallas and Fortworth with Houston. That is the project with which Renfe hoped to continue growing in his international projects. The construction of a high -speed line for just 386 kilometers that allows these cities to be connected in just 90 minutes. The project allows to connect the two most important Texas cities with a train that travels to 386 km/h, according to You can read on the Renfe website. The Spanish company has presented this project as Texas Advisor Central Railroadoffering their experience in “the stages of development, design and construction and in the commercial operation (operations, maintenance, promotion and sale of tickets)”, according to the company’s own words. Renfe went up to the train of this project in 2018 and his involvement grew in 2021 when he signed the contract to become an infrastructure operator. With this new high -speed line I expected to win more than 5,000 million euros from here to 2042, when the contract expired. However, the United States government has withdrawn all funds. A dead point project “I am pleased to announce that Fra and Amtrak agree that the financing of this project is a waste of taxpayers’ funds and a distraction of Amtrak’s main mission to improve their existing deficient services,” The statement indicates Sent by the United States Department of Transport. The words are from Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation of the country that has withdrawn the 63.9 million dollars of subsidy that the Federal Railway Administration (FR) dedicated to the high -speed railway corridor of Amtrak Texas, previously known as the Texas Central Railroad project. In the published information, Duffy emphasizes that the project was born with an exclusively private spirit but that with delays and unforeseen costs increased significantly. So much that they estimate that you can go to the 40,000 million dollars “What makes the construction unrealistic and a risky company for the taxpayer”, in words expressed in the statement. The high speed project to join these two cities re -enters the dead and is a setback for the Spanish company. They explain in Five days that Renfe became part of it in 2018, first with a job of Advice and Line Design. In 2021, The contract was extended and made the Spanish company a future operator of the same with which he hoped to win 5.3 billion euros before 2042. However, the issues With this high -speed line they had been accumulating long before. The creation of this line has its origin in 2009 under the company Lone Star High-Speed ​​Rail LLC. Three years later, the company changed its name to Texas Central Railway. After verifying that the costs were fired, it was accepted that public capital supported the project. In spite of everything, the calendar has breached again and again. Environmental and security permissions should have been achieved in 2020 but delays have been added to which the colon of the coronavirus crisis and an expropriation of land that follows in the courts have been added. In 2017, the United States government with Donald Trump to the head included the project as “a national transport infrastructure priority,” they point out in Five daysand with Joe Biden in command of the country State funds from the Infrastructure Plan were allocated To keep the project alive. Now, in Trump’s second term, the Department of Transportation has canceled it. Until now, the plan went to implement a small -scale replica of the famous rail system of Japanese high speed tokaido shinkansenoperated by Central Japan Railway Company (JRC). Thus, the train It could reach 386 km/h peak speed and join Dallas and Fortworth (separated by about 50 kilometers) with Houston in 90 minutes. You wanted to establish a regular service with a train every 30 minutes. Photo | Xataka In Xataka | Japan has just discovered one of the most lucrative businesses of your bullet train: the sale of food carts

The olive oil campaign is doing so well that Spanish olivers have already lost 270 million euros

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At the end of January, the Almazares de Middle Country They were working 24 hours a day and were direct to triple the amounts of olive last year. It seemed good news. Moreover, after years of drought, it was excellent news. But, As we warnedcould become a problem. Well, it is already becoming a problem. But how will it be a problem? I recognize that it may seem paradoxical. We carry several campaigns in which the big problem is that There were no olives. That shot prices, yes: but hardly compensated for the different links in the production chain. It is no coincidence that the world’s largest olive oil company lost 34 million euros only in 2023. Now there are olives. The problem is that there are too many and that the sector is in such a weak state, that it has not been able to contain the price drop. There the complications begin. Have prices fallen so much? At consumer level, not so much. But originally the situation has been very down. To get an idea, According to data from the Information and Food Control Agencyonly in March, “135,000 tons have been marketed (including imports) to an average of 3.62 euros in all categories.” The amount is important, yes. Above all, because (Docked by international trade problems) We have reached a rhythm that can be at risk of the campaign link: reserves that allow stabilizing the price throughout the year. That is, it is important. But the key is the price. What can we learn from the price? Historically, the line of the traditional dry land olive tree I was around four euros. It is true that the irruption of the irrigation olive tree and the New superintenive varieties They make many profitable farms at lower prices, but the bulk of the Spanish oil Keep from dry. And that dry land has been the worst the crisis of recent years. The current price drop in origin puts it in a very complicated situation. A complication of 270 million euros. In that amount, the UPA Secretary General Andalusia, Jesús Cózar, the dimension of the problem. “The olive groves have stopped receiving 270 million euros in the month of March, or what is the same, more than 8 million daily, due to the current situation of ruin prices at origin,” explained. Your complaint is debatable, but makes sense. Because, indeed, “There are no objective reasons that justify this bearish trend of prices at origin.” Taking into account current reserves, technically speaking the price would have to be superior: oil is coming out at a rate that is not sustainable. And that is what worries the producers. Knowing that in normal circumstances, the olive would have to sell almost two euros more expensive and, in this way, the 2024-2025 campaign would have been a revulsion. Right now is just another year of agony. Image | MILTOF | Pom ‘ In Xataka | Right now there are thousands and thousands of tons of olive oil embarking on the United States

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