Planting prickly pears and make easily a lot of euros!

More and more farmers, it is not, however, a lot of currently, plant prickly pears and make easily a lot of euros, since you don’t have…
this particular tree special care.
This is a an alternative crop, which can exploit poor soils, is the well-known prickly pear, the exploitation of which can provide significant economic benefits.
Although it is not cultivated systematically in Greece, the prickly pear could be an alternative crop for many parts of our country, with very good financial results. Yes, it has joined to the advancing crops of the ministry of Rural Development in the prefectures of Crete and in other Greek regions with a similar climate, such as the prefectures of Lakonia, Arkadia, Messinia, Ilia, Piraeus (Trizinia, Kythira and Resource), Cyclades, Dodecanese, Samos, and Evia.
The cost of cultivation is very low, while the need for water is minimal. The yield per hectare in the cultivation of the prickly pear to average out from 2 to 3 tons, the revenue per acre on an annual basis are able to reach 1.700 euro.