Representatives of 29 regions of Russia, the Republic of Belarus and Kazakhstan took part in the events of the exhibition. 85 exhibiting companies from 23 regions of Russia presented a wide range of fertilizers, plant protection products, crop products, seed potatoes, agricultural machinery and equipment, and much more in demand in the potato industry.
The key event of the business program of the industry forum was a scientific and practical conference, which discussed current problems and priority areas for the innovative development of potato growing in Russia, the results of completed scientific developments, the development of selection and seed production of potatoes in the modern market.
The forum included round tables, a demonstration of a collection of potato varieties, tastings of domestic and foreign potato varieties, Ozery JSC chips, a master class from the chef of the restaurant on cooking potato dishes.
LLC Agrofirma Glory to Potatoes, FGBNU Chuvash Research Institute of Agriculture, LLC Agrokhmel, LLC Potatoes, K (F) Kh Stepanova V.I. participated in the sale of seed potatoes. The residents of the republic were offered 27 varieties of potatoes of domestic and foreign selection to choose from. Over the two days of the Potato 2022 exhibition, 67 tons of seed potatoes were sold.
The organizers of the exhibition are the Ministry of Agriculture of the Chuvash Republic, the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Federal Research Center for Potato named after A.I. A.G. Lorkha” and state unitary enterprise of the Chuvash Republic “Agro-Innovations”. The exhibition was held with the support of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation and the Union of Potato and Vegetable Market Participants.
Evgeny Blinkov, Deputy Director of the Federal Research Center for Potato named after A.G. lorcha
– The exhibition is professional, specialized, we participate in it every year. There are many visitors and they are interested in new domestic varieties. This year, several people have already come to our stand to leave a review on the Krasa Meshchera variety: everyone notes that it performs very well on the territory of the republic, the yield is good, tasty. It was very nice to hear that.
This year we brought to the exhibition promising hybrids that are undergoing state variety testing: Mirage, Mechta, Armada. Next to them on the stand is the Babyninsky variety: we received information that it was included in the State Register already at the moment when we were going to Chuvashia.
Among the new products, I can also list the varieties Pink Wizard, Kumach, Flame, Varyag. Visitors to the exhibition could taste the taste of some of them at the tasting.
Gulliver is another new domestic variety. Like Krasa Meshchera, he took root well in the Chuvash land. Agricultural producers of the republic buy meristem material from us, cut it themselves, grow mini-tubers in greenhouses and start seed production.
I also want to draw the attention of readers to the Northern Lights variety, which has recently entered the State Register. The flesh of the potato is deep purple in color, with silvery, like the northern lights, overflows.
Ekaterina Kudashkina, Manager for the promotion of priority products of Agroliga LLC
– Our company presents its products at this exhibition for the first time. First impressions: a very interesting region, enthusiastic people. The stand was crowded all the time, as we offered farmers not just drugs, but real cases that would increase the profitability of agribusiness. We liked the exhibition very much, we will definitely return next year.
Anastasia Pryamova, Ozery JSC
“We have been coming here as guests for many years. The exhibition takes place on the eve of the start of the new season, during this period it is very important to have the opportunity to communicate with fellow potato growers and discuss plans. This year we have our stand, and we brought Russian varieties of potatoes that we work with under the FSTP program: these are Evpatiy, Varyag and Flame. In general, we consider Evpatiy our calling card, this is a variety for processing. In the future, we plan to use it for the production of chips. Variety Flame has great prospects for delivery to retail chains, it is suitable for polishing, has an excellent presentation.
It should be emphasized that now it is very profitable to purchase seed material of all varieties created under the FSTP program: farmers receive compensation from the state for 70% of their costs. Several farms that bought seeds from us have already received compensation, and in today's conditions this is a great help. I hope this measure will promote the popularization of Russian potato varieties, and as many regions as possible will pay attention to them.
I will also say a few words about chips (Ozery JSC has been successfully producing them for several years). A big plus of the Potato exhibition is that here you can communicate directly with consumers. We brought chips of three new flavors to Cheboksary and held a tasting for visitors to the exhibition. People could vote for the flavor they liked the most. The option that was chosen by the majority of the survey participants, we will introduce into our permanent lineup.