Olive growing in Uşak

Uşak lies on the inland edge of the Aegean olive belt. Moving east from the İzmir-Manisa line the sea's influence weakens, winter cold hardens and olive land narrows sharply; Uşak is the last step in that narrowing.

Output is very small and gathers in the valleys opening towards the Aegean. The province does, however, sit at the edge of the range of the region's major varieties such as Ayvalık and Memecik.

Uşak also shows how concentrated the core of the Aegean is — the region alone supplies 53% of Turkey's crop, yet just outside that core the figures fall to fractions of a percent.