This year, a harvest of 120 thousand tons of olives is expected in Mut.

In Mersin's Mut district, which supplies approximately 20 percent of Turkey's olives and olive oil, the harvest season is ongoing. This year, the district is expected to yield 120 thousand tons of olives and around 10 thousand tons of olive oil. In Mut, one of Turkey's significant olive production centers, both table olives and oil-producing olives are being harvested. Early in the morning, workers enter the orchards and harvest the olives using combs. The harvested olives are sorted by size using sieves, either for table consumption or to be sent to oil production facilities. Table olives, priced between 30 and 70 lira per kilogram depending on the sieve number, and olive oil, which finds buyers at 250 to 350 TL per liter, are both available. Harun Çınar, an employee at an olive oil factory, provided information about the production process, saying, "Olives collected from the orchards are brought to the factory. Here, they are washed, crushed, and kept at a certain temperature ...