The almond trees are blooming

This allow early collecting of the first green almonds, the fruits are very popular with Turkish people willing to pay between 8 and 10 euros per kilo in order to bite into the fruit. The Dacha area, bordering the Aegean Sea, is one of the most important regions for this product, whose production last year was greatly reduced by bad weather. Price, of course, will fall by half in March when the harvest will be more abundant.

According to the General Directorate of Meteorology, temperatures are 8-10 degrees above normal. This worries farmers because a warm weather, as shown in the weather forecast, can shift to a cold and rainy weather and perhaps even frost and hail while the fruit trees have begun their revival, the 2016 season can become catastrophic for the production, with little and malformed fruit and a negative impact on the trees.