In Ukraine, over 2240 ha will be planted. Hazelnut plantings.
This was announced on his Facebook page by the president of the Ukrainian Nut Association Vladimir Pakhno.
The gross walnut harvest in Ukraine is projected at +126 thousand tons to be exported (mainly to the Persian Gulf and Asia).
It is expected that purchasing companies for the purchase of hazelnuts will open. Small quantities of hazelnuts will be sold abroad in the Baltic States and Scandinavia.
It is predicted that export prices for walnuts will be at the level of 2019, but in the domestic market prices for non-sorted walnuts can be reduced.
In ancient Babylon, a ban was introduced on the use of walnuts by ordinary people, since it was believed that they could grow wiser from this. Such soaps among the priests arose because of the external similarity of these fruits with the human brain.
Walnut stands of small and medium areas (up to 30 hectares) will be combined into cooperatives with processing enterprises.
Active joint actions by members of the Ukrainian Nut Association, the Ministry of Economic Development, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and media on branding of Ukrainian walnut in the world will continue.
New Ukrainian high value-added walnut processing products (food and non-food product groups) will appear on the Ukrainian and foreign markets.
It should be noted that in 2019, 2 thousand hectares were laid in Ukraine. new walnut orchards, of which the proportion of hazelnuts amounted to 1.039 thousand ha., Walnuts - 0.961 thousand ha.
At the end of the year, according to the state program, gardeners received compensation for planting material - UAH 119.8 million. for the first half of the year and 160.2 million for the second half of the year.
- Kiev nut growers practice an original way of growing products.
- The walnut plantations of Ukraine are affected by diseases.
- Chernivtsi cooperative will receive compensation for purchased walnut seedlings.