In Cherkasy region, a farm uprooted an apple orchard to plant vegetables.

A farm from Cherkasy region is replacing an apple orchard with vegetables. This season, the agricultural cooperative "Volya" (Cherkasy region) has sown 10 hectares of winter onions, and in early October, for the first time, 5 hectares of winter garlic. This was reported by Vyacheslav Kislitsyn, deputy director of the company's vegetable farming department at "Volya." Previously, the farm was called "Zolotonosha gardens," later it became part of the agricultural cooperative "Volya," and the 10-year-old apple orchard was uprooted for the vegetable project. "Growing apples became unprofitable—recent years have seen more frequent spring frosts," Kislitsyn explained. Previously, he worked with vegetables at one of the farms in the Kherson region, which is now under occupation. The main vegetable crops of the enterprise now entrusted to him are a borscht set: potatoes, onions, carrots, and beets. This season, 18 hectares were sown with onions, which ...