On June 21, in Kamyzyaksky district, on the experimental field of VNIIOB, a two-day seminar "Promising varieties of potatoes for the Lower Volga region" ended.
The floor is given to Tamara Vasilyevna Boeva, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Senior Researcher of the Department of Agricultural Technologies and Land Reclamation of VNIIOB - branch of the PAFNTs RAS, Director of Seeda LLC:
- In recent years, in the Astrakhan region, there has been a clear tendency to an increase in the area under potatoes, in 2018 they amounted to 12,1 thousand hectares, 330 thousand tons of potatoes were produced. Today the region is the leader in terms of the development of potato growing, including in farm production. In the Astrakhan region, thanks to irrigation and correctly selected varieties, the average yield was 29,5 t / ha, which is higher than the national average. Advanced farms consistently receive 40-45 t / ha. More than 150 thousand tons are sold outside the region. Further development of potato growing in the Astrakhan region should be based, first of all, on the basis of promising varieties and high-quality seed material. The priority area in the region is the production of early potatoes. In recent years, there has been an increase in the areas under its plantings, in 2019 they amount to more than 7 thousand hectares. Special attention is paid to testing new promising potato varieties. It is the variety, as one of the main elements of innovative technology, that allows improving agricultural production and increasing its profitability due to high yield, marketability and product quality. Moreover, an effective return on the variety can be obtained only when cultivated in optimal soil and climatic conditions that best meet its genotypic characteristics.
In 2019, Astrakhan scientists on the basis of the Department of Agrotechnology and Land Reclamation of VNIIOB - a branch of the FGBNU "PAFNTs RAS", under the leadership of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences Sciences, Professor Bayrambekov Sh.B. 43 potato varieties of domestic and foreign selection of domestic seed-growing companies for the production of potato seed material were tested. Research is carried out on the basis of peasant farms A.A. Prelova (Kamyzyak), A.V. Krynin (Kharabalinsky district) and "Azalia" (head RG Baitemirov, Limansky district) held a scientific and practical seminar on "Promising potato varieties for the Lower Volga region". The seminar was attended by breeders of the A.G. Lorkha (Moscow), representatives of the North Caucasian center of original seed growing of potatoes, FAT-AGRO LLC (Republic of North Ossetia - Alania), Experimental greenhouse plant Meristemnye Kultury LLC (Kislovodsk), breeding and genetic center Docogenic technologies "(Moscow region), scientists from Moscow, Kostroma, St. Petersburg, specialists from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of the Astrakhan Region, the Department of Agriculture AMO" Kamyzyaksky District ", leading agricultural producers of potatoes in the region, scientists from the FGBNU" PAFNTs RAS "
Seminar participants discussed the prospects for the innovative development of commodity production of potatoes in the framework of the state policy of import substitution and general trends in the development of the potato industry in the Russian Federation, examined the impact of foreign trends on the Russian market, analyzed the experience of European colleagues, new methods of potato production technologies. Seminar participants praised the seminar.
Working in the regions to test varieties will allow producers to make the right choice and minimize production risks. Producers of the Astrakhan region highly appreciated the potato varieties Udacha, Impala, Red Scarlett, the seed material of which was produced in North Ossetia-Alania by the FAT-AGRO LLC. I would also like to note the high quality of seed material of the Impala, Red Scarlett and Latona potato varieties produced in Kislovodsk by Meristemnye Kultury LLC. Of particular interest among the producers were the varieties La Strada, Kinsemen, Doka-2, Gala, 172/24 (LLC "Doka Gennye Tekhnologii"), Gulliver, Ariel, Kometa, Mirage, created by the breeders of the A.G. Lorkha. Tests of potato selection lines have been carried out in our climatic conditions. In the future, there is a prospect of creating new varieties of potatoes specifically for the conditions of the Astrakhan region.
The problem of providing domestic large and small producers of seed and table potatoes with quality planting material is very relevant and requires an early solution. Currently, it is necessary to conduct seed production of potatoes on a virus-free basis. The cultivation of elite potatoes on a virus-free basis using the new technology of microclonal propagation of promising domestic and foreign varieties is the leading direction in obtaining potato seed material.
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