JSC "Sovkhoz Yuzhno-Sakhalinsky" is preparing to collect young potatoes from the field, reports press service of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russia. Every year, the farm allocates an area for planting early potatoes, this year it amounted to 5 hectares of the red-tuber variety Red Lady.
In order to get the earliest possible production, seed tubers were sent in advance for vernalization - warming up and germination in the light, which makes it possible to accelerate the germination and development of potatoes, and increases resistance to adverse factors.
The company plans to collect the first harvest from the field this week. While the collection will be carried out at the request of the trading network, preliminary up to 8 tons per week.
Although, already in early July, buyers of Yuzhno-Sakhalinskiy State Farm JSC tried young potatoes, which were grown in greenhouses vacated after cabbage seedlings. 1 ton sold, it is expected to collect at least 4 more tons of potatoes from greenhouses.
Moreover, the branded stores of the Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk state farm still have potatoes from the 2021 harvest, and social contracts are also fully provided with potatoes.
In general, the area occupied by potatoes is 575 hectares, which is half of the potato area in agricultural enterprises and 1/3 of the total area in agricultural enterprises and peasant farms.
It is worth noting that the enterprise is annually engaged in variety change and variety renewal of potatoes, since high-quality seeds are an important component of a good harvest. This is supported by government support. Agricultural producers are provided with a subsidy of 30-70%, depending on the reproduction, to compensate for part of the cost of purchasing potato seed, including delivery to the region.