Food rations are now being distributed in two-month instalments though some say that is because this year's bumper grain harvest has swollen stocks after two years of drought.

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The company's managing director in Spain and Italy, Jose Maria Collantes, estimates that the Spanish olive harvest will be around 50% of what it was last year - and last year was a bumper crop.

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