The department of seed production of the branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Rosselkhozcenter" in the Krasnoyarsk Territory summed up the results of planting seed potatoes in the region. In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 2023 thousand hectares of potato seed were planted for the 5,5 harvest, of which 63,7% were planted by peasant farms and individual entrepreneurs, and 36,3% by agricultural enterprises.
Potatoes in the region are cultivated in 20 districts, but the main production plantings are concentrated in the suburbs of the Krasnoyarsk Territory: Berezovsky (38% of the planted area) and Sukhobuzim (23% of the planted area) districts, as well as in the south of the region - in the Shushensky district (14% of the planted area). planted area).
This year, 14,38 thousand tons of potato seeds were planted, of which 50% were varietal. Potato growers of the region used 31 varieties of potatoes for planting. Varietal diversity consisted of 9 varieties of domestic and 22 varieties of foreign selection. The share of foreign selection accounts for 88% of the planted potatoes, and the share of domestic selection is only 12%.
Of the foreign varieties, the most popular among agricultural producers is the Gala variety, the volume of which is consistently high and in 2023 amounted to 2,9 thousand tons of planted potatoes. Of the domestic varieties, the Tuleevsky variety is in demand annually; in 2023, 0,54 thousand tons were planted for harvest.