FORT VALLEY, Ga. (AP)- Georgia pecans are a hit in China.

A Ft. Valley pecan grower says he's shipping tons at a time overseas, exporting pretty much all of what is left of the 2007 crop, with hopes of helping farmers with their 2008 crop as well.

Thomas Mason of Mason Pecan International, one of Ft. Valley's largest pecan growers, is working with a number of farmers across the region to sell their cold storage crops to China, including Buck Paulk of Shiloh Farms.

Paulk says Mason's trucks shipped more than two million pounds of last year's pecans to Hong Kong from his farm's freezer storage unit this week.

Paulk says he has not yet committed the 2008 pecans to any buyers as he's waiting to see how the harvest goes this fall.

Mason flew to China earlier this year to talk to representatives from several Asian countries interested in Georgia pecans.

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