02/12/2022
A Pine tree takes 50 years to fruit for the first time. That is why it's not commercially grown. In India Pine nuts are only found in Kinnaur region.
Locals go to forests and collect Pine cones from trees which are then harvested and the fruit is dried for a month before you get Pine nuts.
That explains the high price and low availability.
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