Crops From Central Asia

Crops from central Asia. Apples, peaches, apricots, walnuts, pistachios, cherries and Melons are all from central Asia . Walnuts are gathered in southern Kyrgyzstan. The season is only one month long and the money will last them a whole year. 10% of the world's apricots come from Tajikistan. Most of the farming is done by women not men. Also 40 kinds of melons came from central Asia. 

The oldest types of apple were small and tart. Apples were the first fruit to be grown for eating. In the time of Greek and Romans apples were already very popular. People carried seeds and saplings. They spread across the silk road. The apples came from the Tien Shiann mountains.

 In the Pamir mountains there is evidence of peaches, apricots, melons and grapes. Fruits and nuts are high in calories and very easy to transport so they are a very nice food to have. I tried a lot of these fruits when we were in central Asia, and I think the best was the apples, pistachios and grapes. But some kinds of the apples were really mushy but tasted great and all the grapes had seeds. Also I was surprised that all of these fruits and nuts came from Central Asia.