According to the press service of the company, the gross harvest of ware potatoes at the enterprises of AFG National at the end of the season amounted to 84,4 thousand tons.
In the Rostov region, 15,2 thousand tons of potatoes were obtained, two-thirds of which are intended for sale under a contract with a potato manufacturer. More than 7,5 thousand tons were the harvest of early potatoes harvested in the first half of the summer. Another 3,7 thousand tons of ware potatoes and 0,4 thousand tons of seed were harvested in the Novgorod region.
The main sites for the production of potatoes and vegetables are located in the Nizhny Novgorod region. This year 58 thousand tons of ware potatoes and 12,9 thousand tons of seed, as well as 18,7 thousand tons of table carrots were grown here.
Recall that since the start of the project, AFG National has invested about 4 billion rubles in the production of open ground vegetables in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. These funds were used to build modern vegetable stores with a total capacity of 40 thousand tons, renew and increase the agricultural machinery park, modernize production and packaging complexes. The land bank grew from 6,5 thousand hectares to 16,3 thousand hectares, of which about 4 thousand hectares were supplied for irrigation with modern sprinklers. The production of potatoes and vegetables has doubled. More than 400 residents of the region have been provided with permanent jobs.
Due to the use of irrigation, the average yield of carrots in AFG National exceeds 1000 c / ha, potatoes - 568 c / ha.
AFG National is the largest carrot producer in the region. At the end of 2019, out of 27 thousand tons of carrots harvested in the Nizhny Novgorod region, 21,3 thousand tons were grown at the enterprises of the agricultural holding.
AFG National sells high-quality table potatoes and vegetables of its own production in packaged washed form in retail chains under the Natural Selection brand.