The name of the progressive organizer-practitioner , Doctor of Agricultural Sciences Oleksandr Kolisnyk is well known in agricultural circles. He confidently manages a powerful multidisciplinary company "Agrofirma "SVITANOK" (Kharkiv region), which has several areas of activity: crop production with its rather large areas of grain and industrial crops, livestock breeding requires constant attention - a modern pig complex, from which high-quality pork constantly arrives at the tables of Kharkiv residents. In addition, the professional gardening team of the agricultural enterprise grows the LARGEST NORTHERN walnut orchard among industrial walnut orchards in Ukraine with a total area of 175 hectares, because the orchard is located in the critical zone of walnut industrial horticulture and has coordinates - 50°06'12.45708' N., 35°48'8'20.5., with an altitude above sea level - 231m.

Using modern cultivation technologies, innovative agricultural techniques, and accumulating our own experience, today the orchard in the Bogodukhov district of the Kharkiv region with an area of 103 hectares of walnuts and 72 hectares of hazelnuts is simply exemplary, with effective technologies and innovative findings of practitioners.

In addition, the walnut and hazelnut orchard of the agricultural company "Svitanok" uses ORGANIC gardening technologies and completed organic certification of the orchard in 2022 according to the requirements of the European certification body Organic Standart, which has now added to its status - the LARGEST ORGANIC walnut orchard in Ukraine.

A team of specialists led by the director of the agricultural company "Svitanok", Doctor of Agricultural Sciences Oleksandr Kolisnyk, broke yesterday's stereotypes and proved by their example the real possibility of developing industrial horticulture in the northern regions of Ukraine.

The walnut harvest has been going on for two years in a row. The average caliber of the "Pishchansky" variety showed 36mm, the kernel yield (the ratio of the weight of the peeled walnut kernel to the weight of the shell) was 47%. The average caliber of the "Kodrene" variety showed 38mm, the kernel yield was 45%. A nut processing workshop has been built on the territory of the orchard.

However, after frequently talking with Oleksandr Kolisnyk about the development of industrial nut farming and the sale of nuts (O.I. Kolisnyk is a member of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Nut Association), a decision was made to further develop nut processing - to create a cooperative production chain for the production of organic nut products.

With the help of Dmytro Kabakov, a member of the Presidium of the Ukrainian Walnut Association, a well-known oil production company was involved in the walnut production chain - LLC "M "PLUS GROUP" (Kyiv), which also has Organic Standard certification and many years of experience in oil production from various crops and oil export.

The first industrial batch of ORGANIC WALNUT OIL has now been produced. This is the first organic walnut oil in Ukraine, which is produced in a completely organic production chain: an organic walnut orchard - an organic oil producer.

The necessary tests were performed and conclusions were obtained at the State Enterprise "Ukrmetrteststandart".

The quality indicators of the produced organic walnut oil pleasantly impressed experienced scientists - Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Tamara Tikhonovna Nastenko, Head of the Department of Fat Technology of the National University of Food Technologies (Kyiv) and Associate Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Bakhmach, to whom samples of walnut oil were transferred for further study with the aim of practical distribution for use in healthy nutrition and wider use in the food and other industries. This cooperation was made possible thanks to the recently signed Memorandum between the Ukrainian Walnut Association and the National University of Food Technologies.

And now the first organic walnut oil from the agricultural company "SVITANOK" is beginning its journey to the table of the Ukrainian consumer. The future plans include the export of organic walnut oil.

In the context of decreasing demand for walnuts in the European Union and low prices for Ukrainian walnuts, the key challenge in restructuring industrial walnut farming is the transformation of industrial walnut cultivation and their sale as raw materials into a model of deep processing and creation of finished products. Such processing is possible in cooperation with existing processing enterprises, building production "nut" chains, or other models of cooperation, and with further successful development of deep walnut processing - in the creation of a cooperative processing enterprise, hub, cluster, etc.

So far, on the world nut map, Ukraine is a supplier of raw walnuts. Therefore, the diversification of raw walnut exports and overall walnut production (cultivation) in Ukraine, reshaping the world vision of Ukraine as a raw walnut center is the most urgent task today.

"It's time to cooperate! - Oleksandr Kolisnyk "drawn the line" in our conversation - I am sure that together we can and will overcome everything - THE DAWN OF INDUSTRIAL NUT PROCESSING HAS ALREADY COME! "

The confident statement of the practicing agrarian immediately reminded me of the ancient and wise saying - "The road is won by the one who walks."

Join us – let's walk together!

We invite you to cooperate.

President of the Ukrainian Walnut Association G. Yudin

We support – we go together! Because the promotion of nut oil for everyday use is only the "tip of the iceberg". The main goal is the path to healthy eating

Organic walnut oil is the next step towards healthy eating, which will: increase people's overall health and quality of life, and reduce drug dependence.