yudumnet/turkish-olive-production

Turkish Olive Production Data

Olive and olive oil production in Türkiye at province, region and variety level. Türkiye is the world's largest producer of table olives, yet its production figures have not been available as a single machine-readable set below the national level. This dataset collects them.

Published by zeytin.net · Source repository: github.com/yudumnet/zeytinnet

Configurations

Config	Rows	Contents
provinces	45	2024-25 season by province: olives, table/oil split, olive oil, tree counts, yield per tree, coordinates
province_series	66	Eleven-season series for the six largest producing provinces
regions	5	Area and output shares of the five producing regions
varieties	38	Mapping of olive varieties to growing regions

from datasets import load_dataset
d = load_dataset("yudumnet/turkish-olive-production", "provinces")

Columns

Column names are Turkish. provinces:

Column	Meaning
il	province
bolge	region (Ege, Marmara, Akdeniz, Güneydoğu Anadolu, Karadeniz)
enlem, boylam	latitude, longitude (decimal degrees)
dane_zeytin_ton	olives harvested, tonnes
sofralik_ton	of which sent to table use
yaglik_ton	of which sent for pressing
zeytinyagi_ton	olive oil produced, tonnes
meyve_veren_agac_bin	bearing trees, thousands
meyve_vermeyen_agac_bin	non-bearing trees, thousands
agac_basina_kg	yield per bearing tree, kg
sayfa_tr, sayfa_en	the province's page on zeytin.net

Three ways to misread this data

1 · An empty cell is not zero. It means no published figure. Olives are grown in 41 of Türkiye's 81 provinces and 270 of its 843 districts. A few provinces here produce too little to form a separate line in the statistics — the trees exist, the harvest exists, the number does not.

2 · Table and oil tonnages are two destinations of one crop. sofralik_ton + yaglik_ton = dane_zeytin_ton. They are not separate production and must not be added to the total.

3 · Olives bear alternately. A heavy year is followed by a light one. Never infer a trend from a single season — that is what province_series is for.

One more: to compute an extraction rate, divide zeytinyagi_ton by yaglik_ton, never by dane_zeytin_ton. Oil comes only from the fruit sent for pressing.

Sources

• Production figures (2024-25): UZZK (National Olive and Olive Oil Council), 2024/25 national table olive and olive oil crop estimate, province series. These are estimates, not a completed census.
• Variety–region mapping: Efe, Soykan, Cürebal & Sönmez, Zeytin Kitabı (2016), pp. 37-80. Varieties are recorded at region, not province, level in the source — and so here.
• Regional area and output shares: Zeytindostu Association, 2003 data. ⚠ Dated. These show structural weight between regions, not current output.

Full citations and a bilingual data dictionary: KAYNAKLAR.md

Licence

CC BY 4.0. Use it, change it, use it commercially — attribute it:

Source: zeytin.net — Turkish olive data (CC BY 4.0)

Corrections

Found a wrong figure? Open an issue with its source on the source repository. The data is checked by hand and corrections are welcome.