Next year, the Ukrainian holding Hals Agro in the Kyiv region will begin constructing a center for collecting, cleaning, drying, and storing hazelnuts with a capacity of 3 thousand tons per year, EastFruit reports.
Agronomist of the holding’s hazelnut orchard Evgeniy Laiter spoke about this in an interview with the magazine “Gardening in Ukrainian”.
The hazelnut farm intends to build a workshop for shelling, sorting and packaging hazelnut kernels.
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The hazelnut orchard of “Hals Agro” is located on the territory of the private nursery “Elite,” part of the holding. Currently, the orchard area is about 400 hectares as a single plot. The planned area is a 500-hectare orchard, potentially up to 1 thousand hectares.
The intensive orchard is based on Italian varieties from the Ferrero set, which have guaranteed buyers in Europe and Asia in the coming decades, Laiter adds.
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