Olive growing in Rize
Karadeniz region · 0 t of olives and 0 t of olive oil in 2025-26.
Where it stands
- ⚠ This province does not appear separately in the UZZK 2025-26 national crop estimate — its output is not economically weighted. It is nonetheless recorded in the literature as an olive-growing province of Karadeniz.
An exception inside the tea belt
Rize is Turkey's wettest and most tea-dominated province; it is not an expected address for olives. What olive presence exists is confined to a few trees in sheltered, relatively sunny pockets of the coast.
Rize's place on the olive map is a definition of a limit: the olive is drought-tolerant, but under persistently humid, overcast conditions fruit set and oil accumulation weaken. In that sense the province is the unfavourable extreme.
Even so, the tree's presence shows that the thin olive line along the Black Sea runs unbroken to the Georgian border — and that line's most developed point is Artvin.
2025-26 season
| Bearing trees | 0 |
| Olives | 0 t |
| To the table | 0 t |
| For oil | 0 t |
| Olive oil | 0 t |
| Per tree | 0.0 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 Karadeniz region
Varieties are recorded by region in the source, not by province.
Rize in our articles
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