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In Turkey, there are nearly 100 million productive olive trees and 500,000 families earn their living from olive cultivation.
In our country, olive oil production varies in line with the alternation of high crop and low crop years in olive production.
Turkey is the fifth largest olive oil producer after Spain, Italy, Greece and Tunisia. Its average annual production is approximately 140,000 tons. While 60,000 tons of this quantity is consumed domestically, the rest is exported
The best method for harvesting olives is the one where olives collected with rakes are accumulated on the netting placed over the soil beneath the trees. Nevertheless, also the mechanical olive collection methods make use of vibrators and brooms that do not harm the harvest