Increase in chestnut yield in Sinop, Turkey

In Sinop, one of Turkey's important chestnut production centers, the registered Erfelek chestnut, which is indispensable for cold winter months, has pleased its producers with the increase in yield experienced this season. Producers who started harvesting in the dense forests in Erfelek district are climbing trees that are 15-20 meters high and trying to drop chestnuts with long poles. Producers who first collect the cones that fall from the trees into buckets, then put them in baskets and load them onto vehicles, prepare the chestnuts for sale by separating them from their cones in their gardens. The harvest of the registered Erfelek chestnut, which attracts the attention of citizens with the beautiful smell and flavor it gives off when it is cooked on mobile stands on the streets on cold winter evenings, is expected to last one month. The chestnut harvest, which was an average of 400 tons in previous years, has decreased in the last 4 years as the gall wasp pest started to ...