Through independent cultivation and development for years, Shandong Huashan Agriculture and Forestry Techology Co., Ltd. cultivated “big-fruit hazel nuts” successfully, which ended the history of no hazel cultivation variety in China, and transformed hazelnut industry of China essentially: from wild resource utilization to artificial horticultural cultivation, and from traditional small snacks to modern industry. Thus, China’s new era of hazelnuts industry development started.

The big-fruit hazelnut is a new variety cultivated with Corylus heterophylla Fisch as female parent and C.avellana L. introduced as male parent.

Corylus heterophylla Fisch- C.avellana L. fruits, with rich nutrition and special tastes, are favorite healthy dry fruits of people. With improvement of people’s livelihood in China, dry fruits become necessities of all families; besides, as predicted by experts, the demands of hazel nuts in overseas market such as Japan, Korea, the Netherlands are vast, and the market is promising.