The region entered the top ten leaders in Russia for growing potatoes on agricultural fields
The Kaliningrad region is among the leaders among other regions of the Russian Federation in terms of potato productivity. Such data, the regional government press service reports, was voiced by the Minister of Agriculture of the region Natalya Shevtsova at the All-Russian agronomic and agroengineering meeting in Moscow.
Gross harvest of potatoes in the fields of the Kaliningrad region increased by almost 17% compared to 2017. In 2018, Kaliningrad agrarians harvested 143,2 thousand tons of root crops, while the average yield was 207,4 c / ha - this figure increased by 2017% compared to 21,8.
According to the results of 2018, the Kaliningrad region took the ninth place in the rating of potato productivity.
Source: http://kaliningrad-city24.ru