Prospects for the development of nut growing in Ukraine

15–20 years ago, walnuts in the gardens of the northern and eastern-northern regions (Kharkiv, Luhansk, Sumy and Chernihiv regions) played the role of a proud loner who gifted families with several kilograms of fruit, and hazelnuts were mostly harvested in ravines and forests. The president of the Ukrainian Nut Association, Gennady Yudin, writes about it. Now, with the change of the average annual temperature and the amount of accumulated heat, agro-climatic zones are shifting. Over the past 28 years, the average annual temperature in Ukraine has risen by almost 2 ° C. According to the standard, it should be 7.8 ° C, and now - 9.5 ° C. Therefore, the border of climatic zones has shifted by as much as 200 km. However, until now, the 50th parallel was considered the limit of successful nut growing in the creation of industrial gardens. Because the 50th parallel roughly coincides with the band of high atmospheric pressure, which extends to us in Ukraine through almost all of Eurasia ...