The context suggests that "SAM" = South America

Spain with over 320 million olive trees is the number one producer of olive oil at 37% of world production, with 75% of that coming from Andalusia.

The second largest producer with 24% of worldwide production is Italy.

Greece is the third largest producer with 22% of the world production. And Tunisia the fourth producer with 9% of the world production ,

Other countries that produce significant amounts of olive oil are Turkey (7%) , Syria (7%) and Morocco (2%) .

These seven countries alone account for 90% of world production

Statistics on World Olive Oil Production.
South America's share is approximately 0.3%
www.internationaloliveoil.org