Olive growing in Çanakkale

Marmara region · 81.895 t of olives and 15.939 t of olive oil in 2025-26.

5.185.794bearing trees

81.895 tolives

15.939 tolive oil

15.8 kgper tree

In the 2025-26 season Çanakkale harvested 81.895 tonnes of olives from 5.186.000 bearing trees — an average of 15.8 kg per tree. Of that crop 5.389 t went to the table and 76.506 t to pressing, yielding 15.939 tonnes of olive oil.

Where it stands

3 of 9 in the Marmara region — 20.7% of the region's crop, 3.3% of Turkey's
15.8 kg per tree — 3.3 kg above the regional average of 12.5 kg
7% of the crop goes to the table (regional average 41%) — oil-oriented

Where olives grow in Çanakkale

In Çanakkale olives are grown in Ezine, Ayvacık, Biga, Eceabat and Gelibolu, and on Bozcaada and Gökçeada. Ezine and Ayvacık form the northern end of the oil-olive belt around the Gulf of Edremit, planted mainly with the Edremit (Ayvalık) variety.

On the islands and the Gelibolu peninsula, olive growing is carried on alongside other crops.

What the figures say

Çanakkale's standout figure is yield: 33.1 kg per tree, the highest of the six. Manisa manages 25.0 kg and Aydın 21.0 — Çanakkale beats both, and with only 5.2 million bearing trees.

It is also the most oil-oriented of the six: only 6% of the crop goes to table use. Its extraction rate of 5.6 is the second best after Muğla.

Tree numbers rose 6.0% over eleven years — measured growth. Çanakkale stands out less for expanding its orchards than for what it gets out of the trees it has.

12 seasons

The swing between the best and worst season is 6.8× — from 24.953 t up to 170.800 t. That is alternate bearing, the olive's on-year/off-year cycle.

Olive crop per season (t). Tallest bar: best season, lightest: worst.

Season	Bearing trees	kg/tree	Olives (t)	Table (t)	For oil (t)	Oil (t)
2014-2015	4.871.026	17.0	82.555	10.015	72.541	14.508
2015-2016	4.871.506	5.1	24.953	1.674	23.280	4.656
2016-2017	4.934.456	10.0	50.331	3.583	46.748	6.438
2017-2018	4.940.456	13.6	66.975	7.212	59.763	12.018
2018-2019	4.932.871	9.0	44.288	7.750	36.538	7.308
2019-2020	5.014.305	7.3	36.811	5.274	31.536	6.307
2020-2021	5.049.356	8.5	42.811	6.123	36.689	6.778
2021-2022	5.050.132	6.9	34.635	6.308	28.327	5.277
2022-2023	5.085.598	15.6	79.512	12.772	66.741	12.461
2023-2024	5.140.722	10.8	55.520	14.837	40.683	7.265
2024-2025	5.161.374	33.1	170.800	10.444	160.356	28.428
2025-2026	5.185.794	15.8	81.895	5.389	76.506	15.939

Geographical indications

The registration belongs to the product of a defined area, not to the variety wherever it grows.

North Aegean Olive Oils geographical indication · reg. no 392
Geyikli Zeytinyağı designation of origin · reg. no 685
Bayramiç Zeytinyağı designation of origin · reg. no 1091

Varieties of the Marmara region

Varieties are recorded by region in the source, not by province.