With proper pruning, hazelnuts harvested from 500 square meters surpass those harvested from a 10-dönüm orchard.

SAMSUN (İHA) – Chief Agricultural Engineer Gökhan Ayar said that the yield per unit area in hazelnut orchards is much higher thanks to practices such as root shoot cleaning, tip pruning, and thinning. In Samsun, which ranks first in the hazelnut harvest in Turkey this year, the Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry is providing various trainings to producers. One of these trainings focuses on pruning, which is essential for hazelnut orchards but is not being done consciously by producers. While pruning techniques are taught to producers through Public Education Directorate courses, it is emphasized to producers that although the number of branches decreases in properly pruned hazelnut orchards, the yield of the fruit increases. Chief Agricultural Engineer Gökhan Ayar, who is in charge at the Terme District Directorate of Agriculture and Forestry, demonstrated to farmers in the orchard with the highest yield in the district how pruning should be done in a practical manner. ...