The largest areas under asparagus in Ukraine are in the Volyn region

Asparagus (asparagus) is a tasty, useful, but still not very popular product on the Ukrainian market. At the same time, in Volyn, it is grown on a significant scale for this niche culture. In the region, there are the largest asparagus plantations in Ukraine, they are located in the Ustiluz community. This is reported by Visnyk-K. Their owner, Oleksandr Sydorchuk, has been developing agricultural production for many years. I started growing asparagus by accident. "I had such a good friend, a Pole, and he grew asparagus. It was also such a new culture for me, an interesting culture. He says: "Well, try planting in Ukraine to see if you will have good land." We took a couple of seedlings from him. They planted a little something. He came to visit us. He says: "Listen, you have such super asparagus growing. You have such a good land." And somehow from that moment it started little by little. Later, of course, we started looking for some better varieties. Now we take Dutch hybrids," ...