Italy: Nuts conquer the Granda

In the Granda, the cultivation of nuts is gaining more and more space, from walnuts to almonds to peanuts, which in the last 3 years have registered a jump of + 200% of the dedicated hectares. This is what emerges from the analysis by Coldiretti Cuneo, which highlights the growing interest of agricultural companies for innovative nut crops - alongside the historical ones of hazelnuts and chestnuts - as an alternative to more traditional fruit crops for the Granda. The ongoing climate change and the strong downsizing in the cultivation of peaches, nectarines and kiwis, caused for the former by the ever lower profitability and for the latter by bacteriosis and death, have brought about fifty agricultural entrepreneurs from Cuneo - explains Coldiretti Cuneo - to convert part of the plants by investing in crops that are not usual for our countryside but more easily adaptable to the changing climate and capable of offering good economic prospects. of walnuts, grown on over 120 ...