Olive growing in Adıyaman
Güneydoğu Anadolu region · 4.360 t of olives and 443 t of olive oil in 2025-26.
In the 2025-26 season Adıyaman harvested 4.360 tonnes of olives from 591.000 bearing trees — an average of 7.4 kg per tree. Of that crop 1.343 t went to the table and 3.017 t to pressing, yielding 443 tonnes of olive oil.
Where it stands
- 4 of 9 in the Güneydoğu Anadolu region — 5.2% of the region's crop, 0.2% of Turkey's
- 7.4 kg per tree — 1.5 kg above the regional average of 5.9 kg
- 31% of the crop goes to the table (regional average 15%) — mixed
A narrow belt along the Euphrates
Adıyaman is one of the five Southeastern provinces where olives are grown (Gaziantep, Kilis, Adıyaman, Şanlıurfa, Mardin). Output is limited and concentrated in the milder parts influenced by the Euphrates.
The region's shared constraint applies here too: high temperatures and insufficient rainfall have kept the sector from developing fully. Against that, Adıyaman is also listed among the provinces growing Marmara's principal variety, Gemlik — so regional oil varieties and imported table varieties sit side by side here.
Small in scale, the province is nonetheless part of the Southeast's experience of olives under dry conditions; drought tolerance here is a practical matter, not a theoretical one — how Spain's drought fed through to price shows the market side of that sensitivity.
2025-26 season
| Bearing trees | 591.000 |
| Olives | 4.360 t |
| To the table | 1.343 t (%31) |
| For oil | 3.017 t |
| Olive oil | 443 t |
| Per tree | 7.4 kg |
Only the current season is published for this province; the multi-season series exists for İzmir, Aydın, Manisa, Muğla, Bursa and Çanakkale.
Varieties of the Güneydoğu Anadolu region
Varieties are recorded by region in the source, not by province.
- Belluti
- Eğriburun
- Hursuki
- Kalem Bezi
- Kan Çelebi
- Kilis Yağlık
- Mavi
- Melkebazi
- Nizip Yağlık
- Yağ Çelebi
- Zoncuk