The favorite nut of food photographers and food bloggers all over the world - pecans - will be grown in Ukraine on an industrial scale.

“Yes, of course, this is not a type of entrepreneurial activity where you can safely count on quick profit,” reflects project organizer Sergey Malinovsky. - The first harvest should be expected in seven years. But, one way or another, the venture cannot be called a failure. At least because the price of unshelled pecans in the world starts at $ 1. In other words, from one hectare of pecan plantings you can get one or two thousand dollars of net profit.

The land that Malinowski acquired for growing pecans includes 80 hectares of land. For cultivation, the entrepreneur took into circulation European and Ukrainian pecans.

Note that this is not the first attempt to grow this nut in our country. Which is not surprising, because pecans are valued much higher than their brother - walnuts. It would seem that pecan groves should arise everywhere in Ukraine, since walnuts are so valuable both in cost and in taste and useful characteristics. However, according to farmers, it is not so easy to grow this product under the current climatic conditions in Ukraine. The fruits are just beginning to ripen, as the weather changes, and all the efforts of farmers go down the drain.

Sergey Malinovsky believes in the success of his enterprise and emphasizes that you need to love a nut, grow it with pleasure. And then he will reciprocate. And a generous harvest.

“I myself am from the Ternopil region,” Malinovsky admits. - We always have a lot of nut trees growing there. And from an early age I dreamed that when I grow up, I will seriously take care of this.

Sergei kept his word - he grew up, organized the Impak company and organized a pecan grove as part of his own business. Malinovsky rejoiced at the first nuts as a child. The entrepreneur believes that pecans need careful care - so that the nut does not catch a cold, does not become infected with a fungus and does not freeze.

- And this is the right approach, because for the full ripening of pecans it is necessary that the average daily temperature does not fall below +10 degrees, - experts say. - Frosts should be excluded at least until November. In our country, such weather conditions manage to be "caught" not every year, but somewhere every five years. If the correct conditions for growing and ripening pecans are observed, it can bear fruit for up to three hundred years.