The Federal Agrarian Department considers it necessary to deepen work on the creation of new domestic varieties for the production of chips and French fries. Roman Nekrasov, director of the Department of Plant Growing, Mechanization, Chemicalization and Plant Protection of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation, spoke on this topic during the forum “Domestic selection at the junction of times: classical approaches and the latest trends.”
According to the official, Russian breeders need to make more efforts to improve the characteristics of varieties of a number of crops that are dependent on foreign supplies. The authorities call on scientists and manufacturers to work more actively on import substitution in the area of selection and seed production.
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