The Astrakhan Region continues to strengthen its status as one of the most “potato” regions in Russia. In 2020, Astrakhan agrarians harvested the largest potato crop among all regions of the Southern Federal District, and the result in the country as a whole is very good - fourth place. These data were announced by the head of the regional Ministry of Agriculture Ruslan Pashayev.
In recent years, the Astrakhan region has been dynamically increasing the harvest of potatoes. Pashayev noted that if in 2017 they harvested 258 thousand tons of potatoes, then in 2020 this figure increased to 372 thousand tons.
Contributes to the growth of productivity indicators and the implementation of large investment projects. Thus, the MAPS company intends to invest about 4 billion rubles in agricultural projects in the Enotaevsky district. MAPS is already known as a supplier of potatoes to production sites in Central Russia, where they are processed and used to produce well-known brands of chips, as well as fries in popular fast food chains.