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One of Turkey's most important agricultural products, hazelnuts, has begun to be harvested in the coastal areas of Giresun. Producers, who have worked in their orchards throughout the year, started gathering their hazelnuts with the first light of morning.

As the hazelnut harvest date approaches, experts have issued an early harvest warning. In Trabzon, the hazelnut harvest dates for 2025 were recently determined according to the Trade Ministry's Eastern Black Sea Customs and Foreign Trade Regional Directorate's circular. As a result of the joint decision taken in the commission, it was announced that hazelnuts can be collected starting from August 3 in the coastal areas up to 250 meters altitude, August 8 in the middle areas up to 500 meters altitude, and from August 14 in the areas with an altitude of 500 meters and above. Speaking on the subject, Cemil Pehlevan, President of the Chamber of Agricultural Engineers Trabzon Branch, warned that as of August 3, suitable conditions for harvesting did not exist in the hazelnut orchards below 250 meters altitude, stating that two-thirds of the hazelnuts had not yet turned red and were difficult to separate from their husks. Pehlevan claimed that the determined hazelnut collection date ...

The "Let the Nut Stay in the Branch, the Intelligence Should Stay with the Worker" project, implemented by the Ordu Metropolitan Municipality for 5 years and bringing together hazelnut workers and producers to address their grievances, is seeing intense interest before the harvest season. Particularly, the project has attracted interest from citizens outside the province, with 908 workers and 217 orchard owners applying to benefit from it for the new season.