Table olives are suffering yield loss in Turkey

Published 2024년 12월 14일

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The article highlights the significant yield loss in table olives for the 2024/25 crop, with a reported disaster playing a major role. Despite being the highest yield in the republic's history, the conversion of a large portion of the table olive yield to oil quality is expected to result in a supply shortage. Hidamet Asa, the chairman of the Marmarabirlik Board, has announced plans to purchase 46 thousand tons of the product so far and emphasizes the importance of maintaining bulk olive oil prices at 200 TL per liter. He also emphasizes the need for increased storage capacity to purchase more from producers, attributing the current purchase limit to storage capacity constraints and economic challenges.

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There is a yield loss in table olives in the 2024/25 crop purchase campaign, which has the highest yield in the history of the Republic. Marmarabirlik Board Chairman Hidamet Asa said, "We estimate that there will be a supply shortage as the majority of the product is converted to oil quality." The 2024/25 product purchase campaign continues at full speed in cooperatives affiliated with Marmarabirlik. As a result of the harvest determination studies conducted by official institutions and organizations before the product purchase campaign, it was announced that there were 750-800 thousand tons of table olives in Turkey. Marmarabirlik Board Chairman Hidamet Asa stated that a harvest of around 379 thousand tons was determined in cooperative regions, which are the field of activity of Marmarabirlik. Asa stated that 280 thousand tons of this harvest was in Bursa, and in addition, 100 thousand tons of harvest declarations were received from partners. President Hidamet Asa, who ...

Source: Sondakika