San Marino currently has more than 850 olive farms, all of which amount to 170 ha. The country has 33,000 inhabitants, of which more than 600 farmers are dedicated to this ancestral crop.
San Marino has an estimated turnover in the olive sector of € 1,274,000 and a production of 700t of fruit, which turns into 90t of Extra Virgin Olive Oil that obtains an average fat yield of 13%.
In this unique country, there is one single mill, responsible for grinding all the fruit produced. It does not have a tradition in table olives, so it does not have any professional table olive factories. It also does not have a pomace treatment industry or refineries.
The per capita consumption of San Marino is comparable to its Italian neighbors. It is around 9.9kg per person per year, which means a total average demand of 300t of oil. Therefore, there is a shortage of 210t that it must acquire mostly from Italy.
The varieties that we find in San Marino are: Frantoio, Leccino; and as autochthonous varieties: Correggiola, Sursina, Brugnola, Capolga.
The Most Serene Republic of San Marino is the oldest sovereign state in the world and one of the three independent micro-states surrounded on its border by a single country, which is Italy in this case.
Constituted in the thirteenth century, San Marino drafted its current set of constitutional laws on October 8, 1600.
It has 2,200 hectares dedicated to agriculture and 61km² of surface area.
