Ukraine: Hazelnuts have great potential for import substitution, the farmer said

Organic hazelnuts have good prospects in Ukraine as well, believes Nina Smirnova, the founder of the Nats'N'Garden farm (Kyiv region). She wrote an article about her experience in growing this culture for the magazine "Gardening in Ukrainian". "First of all, these prospects are related to import substitution, the growing culture of consumption, which still has room to increase," she says. - The Ukrainian consumer still does not know about the local origin of the product, about the fact that hazelnuts can have different taste qualities and generally about the fact that hazelnuts can be tasty. Believe me, the taste of products grown and sold in the same year is really different." According to Smirnova, the climatic conditions of Ukraine ...