Turkish olive growing sector; It showed an export performance of 184 million 510 thousand dollars in table olives in the 2022/23 season, which it entered as the world's first with a yield of 735 thousand tons. Turkey exported table olives worth 172 million 531 thousand dollars in the 2021/22 season. The amount of foreign currency obtained from table olive exports increased by 7 percent.
Germany became the export leader in black olives and Iraq became the export leader in green olives.
While Germany was the leading country in Turkey's table black olive exports with an amount of 33.4 million dollars, black olives worth 24.3 million dollars were exported to Romania, one of our traditional export markets. Iraq became the third country with a demand for black olives worth 23.4 million dollars from Turkey, while black olives worth 9.6 million dollars were exported to Bulgaria and 7.8 million dollars to the USA.
In green olive exports, Iraq was at the top with an export of 9.1 million dollars, while Germany was the top partner with a demand of 8.7 million dollars. Green olives worth $3.2 million were exported to the United States, while Israel was ranked with $2.4 million and Romania with $2.1 million in green olive demand.
