A Russian investor, in partnership with Kazakhstan partners, is planning to build the country's first greenhouse complex for banana cultivation in Stavropol by 2025. The project, spread over 46 hectares, will also cultivate pistachios, almonds, avocados, mangoes, and passion fruit. The profitability of the project is under discussion, with critics questioning the economic sense of growing bananas, which are usually imported, in greenhouses due to the high investment required and the low retail price of bananas in Russia.