Nuts2 is working with Burkea Africana Nursery (SA) and Ebenezer Agricultural Training Center (Zimbabwe) to support growing of pecan trees in Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa

  1. Seeds (pecan nuts) are sown to grow into 1 meter high plants
  2. Plants are grafted with the most productive varieties
  3. Young tree is planted in the field, as soon as the root has grown
  4. mature enough, typically after 3-4 years in the nursery
  5. Pecan trees annual yield continues to grow to 25 kgs in year 30
  6. Pecan trees continue to bear fruit until over 100 years of age

Benefit for the farmer

  • Pecan trees deliver high value crop for the farmer, for which global market demand is constantly growing
  • Pecan trees generate returns more than 100 years.

Benefit for the environment

  • Trees absorb about 20 KGs of CO2; every year.
  • 145.000 pecan trees together absorb close to 300 mln KGs of CO2 in their lifetime.
  • That equals to over 300.000 Amsterdam-New York return flights
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