Olive growing in Ankara
İç Anadolu region · 1 t of olives and 0 t of olive oil in 2024-25.
In the 2024-25 season Ankara harvested 1 tonnes of olives from 0 bearing trees — an average of 10.0 kg per tree. Of that crop 1 t went to the table and 0 t to pressing, yielding 0 tonnes of olive oil.
Where it stands
- 2 of 2 in the İç Anadolu region — 0.6% of the region's crop, 0.0% of Turkey's
- 10.0 kg per tree — 2.8 kg above the regional average of 7.2 kg
- 100% of the crop goes to the table (regional average 96%) — table-oriented
The innermost point on the map
In Ankara the olive enters the statistics only with a symbolic figure. The province is one of the innermost points on Turkey's olive map, and what exists here is not commercial production but individual trees in sheltered gardens.
Those individual trees still say something: olive production in Turkey extends across 41 provinces and 270 districts, and at the edge of that spread trees appear wherever the climate allows.
Ankara's continental climate presses both of the olive's thresholds at once: extreme summer drought and low winter temperature. That is why commercial olive growing has not reached here.
2024-25 season
| Bearing trees | 0 |
| Olives | 1 t |
| To the table | 1 t (%100) |
| For oil | 0 t |
| Olive oil | 0 t |
| Per tree | 10.0 kg |
Only the current season is published for this province; the eleven-year series exists for İzmir, Aydın, Manisa, Muğla, Bursa and Çanakkale.
Ankara in our articles
- Olive oil trade in the Ottoman Empire: Britain the buyer, the crop the price
- The olive fruit fly: sting thresholds, traps and a control calendar
- Other olive pests: jasmine moth, psyllid and olive scale
- The olive moth: three generations, three kinds of damage
- Olive black scale and sooty mould: the H on its back
- Olive peacock spot: symptoms and a region-by-region spray calendar
- Verticillium wilt: the disease that kills the tree and has no cure
- Olive knot: galls, warts and a bacterium that enters through wounds