Check out this website. I found it today by accident but these guys have a lot in common with the system we have developed with perennial staple food production with the sandalwood nut over here in the West. The main difference being that ours is legume based so we have major cost savings there:
http://www.badgersett.com/
Badgersett Research Corporation: Woody Agriculture research and development
With roots going back to 1978, Badgersett Research Corporation works on bringing "Woody Agriculture" into the mainstream world of full scale staple food production. Besides selling the nuts we grow, we breed and sell seedlings of hybrid hazelnuts and hybrid chestnuts, and we are involved in all aspects of commercializing these crops, from developing machinery and harvest procedures to consumer products and marketing.
