Georgian nut growers plan to increase hazelnut production to 100,000 tons by 2025
Hazelnut Kernel
Georgia
Published Dec 1, 2022
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The Georgian hazelnut industry has a good potential for development, and with due efforts, it is quite realistic to increase annual production to 100,000 tons of hazelnuts or 40,000 tons in terms of kernels by 2025,” said the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Georgian Hazelnut Producers Association (GHGA). ) Merab Chitanava at the conference "Nuts of Ukraine: exchange of experience with Georgia" held in Tbilisi. “If you look at the data, the area of hazelnut gardens in Georgia is 70,000 hectares.
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The Georgian hazelnut industry has a good potential for development, and with due efforts, it is quite realistic to increase annual production to 100,000 tons of hazelnuts or 40,000 tons in terms of kernels by 2025,” said the Chairman of the Executive Board of the Georgian Hazelnut Producers Association (GHGA). ) Merab Chitanava at the conference "Nuts of Ukraine: exchange of experience with Georgia" held in Tbilisi. “If you look at the data, the area of hazelnut gardens in Georgia is 70 thousand hectares, the harvest is 40 thousand tons. This gives specialists an understanding that our production per hectare is very low. When in different regions of Georgia there are industrial orchards reaching 2.5-3.5 tons per 1 ha, our average farmer is at around 0.5 tons per 1 ha, that is, there is a high potential for growth. At the first stage, our goal is to achieve an average of 1.5 tons per 1 ha. And this is achievable very quickly, even in two seasons - thanks to the proper care of the ...
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