Pine nut harvest has started in Turkey

Bergama Chamber of Agriculture President Nuri Taşkıranoğulları said that the kilogram price of pine nuts, whose yield has decreased in recent years, is over 1000 liras and that it competes with gold. Harvest season has begun for pine nuts, which is considered one of the most valuable products in the forest on Kozak Plateau in Bergama. Climbing the pine trees, which are about 25 meters tall, the producers collect the cones with the poles in their hands. Explaining that the cones laid out in the open field will be separated from their shells after the storage process, Göbeller Village Headman Ertan Sağlam stated that the producers will continue to harvest for 4 months. Sağlam said, "The collected cones are stored during the winter. We store them in our gardens until the weather warms up. In July, the storage ends. We lay them out in the open field. Cones open with the heat of the sun. We call it 'steel'. "We also separate the crusted part with agricultural tools. Previously, our ...