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for improvement of the industry. More modern equipment is already being installed in many presses and this modernisation should be much more rapid when supply conditions improve. The 'building up of 'an export trade, possibly under some suitable centralised control, in both refined and non-refined edible oil and in pickled olives is essential if the necessary further development of the industry is to continue. The two following tables show the production of olive oil in the past five seasons and the number of pressing establishments in 1944-45, with particulars of output and type of machinery.

Table 5.

PRODUCTION OF OLIVE OIL IN THE LAST FIVE SEASONS.

Season

Metric tons

1940-41 1941-42 1942-48 1948-44 1944-45

10.585 1,618 9,414 9,912 2,738

Table 6.

NUMBER OF ESTABLISHMENTS ENGAGED IN PRESSING OF OLIVE OIL, CLASSIFIED ACCORDING TO THE TYPE OF CRUSHING MACHINERY AND SHOWING THE QUANTITY OF OIL PRESSED BY EACH TYPE DURING THE

SEASON 1944-45.

No. or / Production
Type of machinery j establish-
men ts
I. Animal-driven crushers and * I Metric tons
wooden presses 76 187
ll. Animal-driven crushers and
iron-screw presses 199 745
III. Animal-driven crushers and
hand hydraulic presses 87 210
IV. Motor-driven crushers and
hand operated presses" 5 26
V. Motor-driven crushers and
hydraulic presses 128 1,570
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Total 440 2,788
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* Mainly iron screw presses.
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