Orchards at the nursery and fruit-growing operation Plantex are protected from hail. In the distance is a nuclear power plant. The entrepreneurial spirit was stamped out in Slovakia during 40 years of Communist rule. But, today, the central European country is enjoying an unprecedented economic boom. Its tree fruit industry is small, but expanding as a supplier to Russia and western Europe. Joseph Vazár established his first orchard 15 years ago near Dunajská LuΩná, near Bratislava, not long after the country lost its Communist fetters and adopted a democratic system of government. Before World War II, Vazár’s grandparents had a […]