According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Agriculture, since December 2023, 210 tons of local potatoes have been sold to Serbia. The department noted that abroad consider Kaliningrad tubers to be especially tasty and highly appreciate the quality of the Russian product.
The agricultural cooperative “Our Product” from the Bagrationovsky Municipal District acted as the exporter. It includes 48 farms growing potatoes. At the end of the last season, they stored 8,5 thousand tons of this type of product.
The Kaliningrad region is completely self-sufficient in potatoes. Last year, agricultural producers in the region harvested more than 133 thousand tons of tubers. This is 5,5 thousand tons more than in 2022.
More than 60 percent of potatoes were planted in the fields of Stavropol
In the region, potato planting was completed on an area of over 3,5 thousand hectares. This volume is 61% of the planned volume. According to the regional Minister of Agriculture Sergei...