In 2023, in the Astrakhan region, the area under potato cultivation reached 12,69 thousand hectares. Of these, specialists from the local branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Rosselkhoztsentr” examined 7,804 thousand hectares for weed contamination. As it was revealed, the area of contamination amounted to 3,709 thousand hectares, or 71,69%. Chemical weed control in one trace was carried out on an area of 1,294 thousand hectares.
Ural breeders provide potato growers with domestic seed material
Anna Kuznetsova, Minister of the Agro-Industrial Complex and Consumer Market of the Sverdlovsk Region, noted that in vegetable growing, dependence on foreign planting material continues. Today...