Hazelnut harvest volumes in the Rostov region of Russia may reach 1.5 thousand tons by 2030

The harvest of hazelnuts, which first began to be grown in the Rostov region, will reach 1.5 thousand tons by 2030, said Olga Gorbaneva, First Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the region. Nuts are grown in the first super-intensive garden in the Rostov region with drip irrigation in the Kamensky district. “Hazelnut cultivation is a new promising direction for the agro-industrial complex (agro-industrial complex - TASS note) of the Rostov region. <…> An individual entrepreneur has begun implementing an investment project to plant a hazelnut garden in 2021. <…> As part of the third stage, this is 2027-2030, it is planned to plant hazelnut orchards of 30 hectares annually. In total, it is planned to plant hazelnuts on an area of 300 hectares, the gross harvest will be 1.5 thousand tons. The investor uses seedlings of European hazelnut varieties grown in Serbia, in as main varieties and pollinator varieties,” Gorbaneva said during a meeting of the Investment Council under ...