This required over 17 thousand tons of seed tubers. Compared to last year, the area under the crop increased by 200 hectares
According to Ksenia Vanina, the acting head of the Chelyabinsk branch of the Rosselkhoztsentr, this year the share of varietal seeds in the total volume of planting material has exceeded 40 percent.
A fifth of the total weight of varietal seeds belongs to domestic breeding, where 16 varieties are represented. The remaining 80 percent are 17 foreign-bred varieties produced in the Russian Federation.
The TOP-3 planted varieties include Rosara (41% of varietal), Red Scarlett (19%) and Nevsky (18%).
“The choice of planting material by agricultural enterprises is understandable. For example, the Rosara variety is preferred not only for its appearance, high stable yields and long shelf life, but, first of all, for its resistance to unfavorable factors and diseases - late blight, scab and other "occupational diseases" of tubers. The Nevsky variety is valued by farmers for its unpretentious care and high yield. As for Red Scarlett, it has good taste, ”comments Ksenia Vanina.