Italy may have to IMPORT olive oil and could run out of homegrown supplies ...

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Italy may soon be forced to import one of the country's most essential cooking products after freak weather and disease devastated harvests.

The olive oil industry saw a 57 per cent drop in production last autumn - a 25-year low - which will last Italian consumers for only four months this year, a major farming lobby warned. 

At a cost of a billion euros (£860,000) to the sector, the decline has forced oil farmers onto the streets in protest as they ask for help to reverse the trend.

However the extreme weather caused by climate change is likely to cause further damage to the crops and could force Italians to bring in olive oil from

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