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Olive Oil Factory Investment

With extensive olive groves across Kırıkhan and Altınözü, Hatay offers a ready raw-material base for olive-oil processing, with a typical factory investment running in the range of 12-35 million lira depending on capacity.

Traditional olive oil mill equipment

Hatay's olive groves, concentrated in Kırıkhan and Altınözü, produce far more raw fruit than the region's existing pressing capacity can absorb during peak harvest, creating room for new or expanded olive-oil facilities. A modern cold-press mill sized to serve this gap typically requires an investment in the 12-35 million lira range, depending on daily processing capacity and bottling/packaging integration.

What Project Types Are Worth Considering?

  • Cold-press olive oil mill
  • Bottling and packaging line integrated with a mill
  • Premium/branded extra-virgin olive oil production
  • Cooperative-partnership mill serving smallholder producers

Which Areas Should You Consider?

Kırıkhan and Altınözü, at the heart of the region's olive production, are the natural locations for a new mill. Proximity to İskenderun Port is a further advantage for export-oriented bottling operations.

Licensing and Permit Process

  • Food production permit from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
  • Food registry certificate
  • Industrial registry certificate for the mill
  • Geographical indication and export certifications where relevant

Incentives and Support

Region 6 incentives apply to olive-oil processing investments; cooperative-partnership models can additionally access agricultural support mechanisms aimed at smallholder producers.

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What to Keep in Mind

Mill capacity should be sized against realistic harvest-season throughput rather than theoretical maximum yield; oversizing relative to available fruit supply is a common feasibility mistake in this sector.

Sources

From the official data

Olive Data: Area, Trees and Support

In 2024 Hatay had 450,224 decares of oil olives and 122,046 decares of table olives; 14,323,857 fruit-bearing trees yielded 167,710 tonnes of oil olives and 55,715 tonnes of table olives. In 2025 the olive-oil deficiency payment went to 1,218 farms, covering 57,819 decares and totalling TRY 4.1 million.

IndicatorValueYearSource
Oil olives (area · output)450,224 decares · 167,710 tonnes2024[1]
Table olives (area · output)122,046 decares · 55,715 tonnes2024[1]
All olives (oil + table): area · trees572,270 decares · 14,323,8572024[1]
Olive-oil deficiency payment: farms1,2182025[1]
Olive-oil deficiency payment: area · amount57,819 decares · TRY 4.1 million2025[1]

What does this data mean for an investor?

Olive groves (572,270 decares) make up 56% of the province's fruit area. Farms receiving the deficiency payment average about 47 decares each and about TRY 3,331 per farm, which suggests olive growing is carried out by scattered, relatively small holdings (interpretation). For an oil-processing plant sourcing from small producers, building the supply network can matter as much as plant capacity.

Limitation: Tree and area data are for 2024; support data are for 2025 payments. Oil-olive output is fruit tonnage; olive-oil yield and prices are not in this source. Support amounts are nominal.

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Sources

  1. [1] Hatay Provincial Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry, 2025 Activity Report (data period: 2024–2025)

Figures come from official sources; interpretations are Invest Hatay's own and are not investment advice.

Frequently asked questions about olive oil factory investment

Primarily on daily pressing capacity and whether bottling and packaging are integrated on-site; we scope this precisely during feasibility.

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