Ukraine: French and Moldovan walnut varieties have experienced mass freezing in Ukraine

Published Aug 18, 2023

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The mass planting of untested Ukrainian walnut orchards with French and Moldovan seedlings has resulted in their mass destruction due to extreme weather conditions. According to Professor Volodymyr Mezhenskyi, the high demand for specific planting material in the 2010s was not met by domestic varieties, leading producers to plant imported varieties that were not acclimatized to the local conditions. As a result, the orchards experienced mass freezing and destruction.

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The mass planting of Ukrainian walnut orchards with seedlings of French and Moldavian selection, untested on the ground, led to their mass freezing. Volodymyr Mezhenskyi, a professor from the National University of Bioresources and Nature Management of Ukraine, writes about this in an article for the magazine "Gardening in Ukrainian". According to the researcher, in the 2010s, the demand for varietal planting material increased sharply, the shortage of which was not covered by the reproduction of domestic varieties on an inappropriate industrial base. In particular, the producers planted varieties of French selection Melanese (Meylannaise), Pieral (Pieral), Ronde de Montignac (Ronde de Montignac), Ferjean (Ferjean), Fernet (Fernette), Fernor (Fernor), Frankette (Frankette) and Moldovan Kostyuzhensky (Costiujenschi), Calaraschi (Calaraşschi), Chishinivschi (Chishinovschi), Codrene (Codrene), Korjeuţchi (Corjeuţchi), Lunguieţe (Lunguieţe), Schinoschi (Schinoschi). "When the hyped ...

Source: Agrotimes