"Drought to seal fate of Turkey’s black gold
Drought adversely affected agriculture everywhere around the Mediterranean this year and vegetable production has suffered one of its worst seasons.
The production of the olive, commonly described as “black gold” in many provinces across Anatolia’s Marmara and Aegean regions, has also fallen prey to drought and the Marmara Union of Olive Sale Cooperatives (MARMARABİRLİK), an umbrella organization for olive producers, is expecting a 75 to 80 percent decrease in this year’s yield. On the other hand, the union is expected to implement a quota of 6,000 tons for medium and small olives on its purchases because the harvest of such olives seems to have increased greatly."
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