The expert named the best cherry variety for the North and West of Ukraine

Published 2024년 8월 26일

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The article highlights the characteristics of the Lutivka cherry variety, which is highly productive, capable of yielding up to 30 tonnes per hectare under the right conditions in the North and West of Ukraine. This self-pollinating variety is well-suited for mechanical harvesting, making it efficient and less reliant on manual labor, which is becoming a challenge in Poland and Ukraine. The article suggests a planting scheme of 4 meters by 1.25 meters to optimize harvesting efficiency, noting that this could potentially replace the work of 200 workers.

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In a good year, the Lutivka cherry variety in the conditions of the North and West of Ukraine can give a yield of 30 t/ha. Machei Lipecki, the owner of the Lipecki nursery (Poland), told about this in his article for the magazine "Gardening in Ukrainian". Lutivka will not bear fruit in the south, in arid hot regions of Europe, he adds, and Hungarian and Serbian varieties bear little fruit in Poland, Germany and Northern Ukraine. "Lutivka is self-pollinating, so it can be planted in large blocks without other pollinating varieties," said Lipetsky. - Due to its high yield, Lutivka is also well suited for processing. But it is better to plant it under mechanized harvesting. Manual production in the case of such products as cherries is becoming economically uninteresting in Poland and Ukraine today - due to the shortage of ...

Source: Agrotimes