Potato harvesting continues in the region. As reported by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the region, farmers have dug up more than 10,6 thousand tons of products from an area of 0,7 thousand hectares. The crop yield is 139 c/ha, which is almost 25 c higher than last year.
This coming Saturday, during the weekend fair, Potato Day will be celebrated in the region. To participate in the event, local farmers will bring tubers of all varieties grown in Khabarovsk fields.
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...