Olive growing in Eskişehir
İç Anadolu region · 180 t of olives and 1 t of olive oil in 2024-25.
In the 2024-25 season Eskişehir harvested 180 tonnes of olives from 40.000 bearing trees — an average of 4.5 kg per tree. Of that crop 173 t went to the table and 7 t to pressing, yielding 1 tonnes of olive oil.
Where it stands
- 1 of 2 in the İç Anadolu region — 99.4% of the region's crop, 0.0% of Turkey's
- 4.5 kg per tree — 2.8 kg below the regional average of 7.2 kg
- 96% of the crop goes to the table (regional average 96%) — table-oriented
An unexpected address in inner Anatolia
Eskişehir is counted among Marmara's olive-growing provinces (Bursa, Bilecik, Sakarya, Kocaeli, İstanbul, Yalova, Tekirdağ, Eskişehir, Çanakkale) — yet geographically it stands on the threshold of inner Anatolia.
That makes its olive growing a boundary case: the hard winters of a continental climate permit olives only in sheltered microclimates. Output is statistically negligible.
The province's value lies in showing how the olive behaves inland: the tree's chilling requirement is more than met here, but winter minima draw the limit.
2024-25 season
| Bearing trees | 40.000 |
| Olives | 180 t |
| To the table | 173 t (%96) |
| For oil | 7 t |
| Olive oil | 1 t |
| Per tree | 4.5 kg |
Only the current season is published for this province; the eleven-year series exists for İzmir, Aydın, Manisa, Muğla, Bursa and Çanakkale.