Insight view

10 YEARS OF INDEPENDENCE - INSIGHT VIEW
According to expropriation,
19,000 trees of
olive were deprived from families
and religious communities. 204
families and religious communities
lost their olives, although the public
body has only 118 disputed invoices.
In that manner, they were unfairly
treated because they lost their
jobs, dignity, and perspective.
Bearing in mind
that families whose
olives were taken away do
not cultivate olive groves, do
not produce olive oil, and do not
take olives to the market, they
are forced to do something
else, but existence for some
of them is uncertain.
If
an old olive tree
can give 50 kilos of olive
at minimum, which can
produce eight liters of olive oil,
we believe that at Valdanos bay
900,000 kilos of olive oil remains
locked away, or 144,000 liters of
oil per year! If this annual amount
is combined with a 35-year
period, we can calculate how
much owners might have
earned.
Considering the
condition of olives in
Valdanos, their
safety is uncertain
because of
possible fire.
According to the
conclusions of the
Institute for Subtropic
culture in Bar,
revitalization and saving
of olive groves in
Valdanos should be
urgently pursued.
The number of
current owners (real
successors) expecting
compensation is almost
600 and 38 years have
passed since unjust
deprivation.
When
considering the
average price of olive oil,
10 euros and 6 euros per kilo
of processed olives, then
numbers tell us that annually
almost 5,400,000 euros of
consumable olives damages
and almost 1,440,000 euros
for olive oil that might
be produced.
According to
Monstat, Montenegro
imports almost 400,000
kilos of consumable
olives, including almost
150,000 kilos
of olive oil.
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