The pecan (Carya illinoensis) Cutrofiano del Salento Lecce

The pecan (Carya illinoensis) Cutrofiano del Salento Lecce


Antonio Bruno *

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The farm "Sirgole" Cutrofiano del Salento Lecce, produces pecans. In this paper the reasons for the desirability and value of this tree growing in the territory of Salento in Lecce.

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Sunday, December 19, 2010 I have had confirmation that you can not say "to live" if you do not go to the country. In truth it all began with the race in the pool in San Cesario di Lecce my daughter Sara Maria Agnes, who has seen the winner, told me that was calm, who swam in a natural way, free and peaceful. There was my old friend and colleague Vincent Castellano, a fate tied to mine, prepare for the exam in Physics and found two friends who have become our wives and they gave us, the same year, female children who have become friends with each other.

Vince and I, in all those who have called "years of lead", we were both enrolled in the Faculty of Agriculture of Bari and we lived in the same room in the student house on campus as "Benedict Petroni.

I have been forced to cope with Bianca, a female toy poodle, and it occurred to me what he says, referring to the dogs, another friend: Rory Mason. He led me to take the White is one of the leaders of my life together, and tells me I have to bring in the country, leave it free. Today the sight of the wasteland, the pseudosteppa surrounding the pool of San Cesario di Lecce, came to my mind the words of Rory and I asked Vincent if I could go in his company, which is fenced off, finally free to leave White .

And it's there, in that land of San Cesario di Lecce, Vincenzo has shown me that two trees will be planted in a few days, two pecan nut trees.

The scientific classification of pecan tree is the following Kingdom: Plantae, Division: Magnoliophyta, Class: Magnoliopsida, Order: Juglandales; Family: Juglandaceae; Genre: Carya, binomial nomenclature, Carya illinoensis (Wangenh.) K. Koch, 1869

cultivated mainly in North America for the collection of its fruits, pecans.

These plants are very similar to the common walnut, were present in Europe, albeit in a different period in Villafranca (Pliocene), in an age that is humid with a temperate climate similar to where today they are cultivated. Pollen belonging to the genus Carya, which belongs to the pecan nut, it is normally found in fossil beds Italians.

There is a wise man who always ask advice, the lawyer is. Vincenzo Provenzano Ugento del Salento Lecce, measuring every word, and when we speak of land, trees, fruits of the earth, and then looks at me with a smile tells me that there is need for an alternative to diversify production. The Consortium of Reclamation "Ugento and Li Fogg, encouraging its 200 thousand members, to support small local food companies and create a favorable environment for the creation of new businesses, according to the lawyer. Vincent Provenzano, can try to find new crops that allow you to have a satisfactory income and that are destined to an expanding market. In short, the Consortium serves as a "forum" of local development. This type of informal activity is directed chiefly at 200 thousand owners of small rural landscape of Salento Lecce who intend to propose specific foodstuffs, businesses being set up and farmers wishing to diversify their production.

I did a search and found that the Farm "Sirgole" Cutrofiano del Salento Lecce, produces pecans, which the company is still little known in Italy despite their positive effects on cholesterol, blood circulation, coronary heart disease due to the high content of monounsaturated fat. The varieties of pecans are grown in Cutrofiano the Kiowa, Wichita and the Shoshoni all the names of the ancient Indian epic.

Always the same company probably thinks Cutrofiano del Salento Lecce, Italy is the only territory in which they produce pecans.

But these trees because they produce? I know you're wondering, and I know that you know, here I will write. Plants 10-25 years can provide 50-100 kg of nuts. Over the twentieth year yields of 100-200 kg in the plant are normal. The average yields in the U.S. adult pecaneto cultivars with ancient and classical density (122 plants per hectare a density that is a bit 'more of the forest of olive trees in the Salento Lecce), are about 1.5 to 2, 0 tonnes per hectare. With the new cultivar and spacing Texas tight you can get double the quantities.

L 'Azienda Agricola Sirgole "Cutrofiano del Salento Lecce, sells pecans in packs of 5 kg at a price of 58 Euro. Do not believe us? It 's all about Web 2.0 just put that in a string of search engine that used the words farm "Sirgole. You did? Well! Then you're already making you a little 'accounts to see if it's worth taking those plants to make them live in your land that was once one of the 60 thousand hectares of tree or one of more than 5 thousand Apulian acres of tobacco were grown in the Salento Lecce until 1996.

Yeah! Worth it?

We do a little sum small, small? Aspe I call my daughter Sara, I'm asking is how many pounds a ton and he said that 1 tonne = 1000 kilograms. Then by the hypothesis that the 122 pecan trees produce only 20 pounds of nuts to plant in one hectare will have about 2 thousand and five hundred pounds with a gross marketable production of almost 30 thousand euro per hectare. The other accounts you can make them yourself! Aspe! Not now! At least finish reading my note and then start to dream!

Meanwhile, we know with certainty that the Cutrofiano pecan (Carya illinoensis) produces the largest and that there 's Farm "Sirgole" which sells at prices on the Web 2.0 all over.

If there is any interested I can certainly ask for a contact to the company that also reads this note I sent to your e mail address an invitation to the above associations in the Province of Lecce. Also if anyone of scientists at the University agronomists and biologists with an interest to investigate the scientific aspects of growing this tree in the Salento Lecce here that the function of the Consortium as a forum for local development, the lawyer dear. Vincent Provenzano, it becomes a fait accompli.

What are you waiting to write me?



* Agronomist





Bibliography

Azienda Agricola "Sirgole" http://www.nocipecan.it/