“Don agrarians, having collected the largest harvest of early grains in Russia, continue to harvest vegetables, potatoes, and fruit crops today,” said Viktor Goncharov, First Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region. - This year, despite the vagaries of the weather, the gross harvest is projected at the level of last year. As of today, 50% of the acreage under vegetable crops and more than 52% of the sowing of potatoes have already been harvested. "
Recall that last year in agricultural enterprises and farms, the gross harvest of vegetables in open ground exceeded 211 thousand tons, potatoes - 181, 6 thousand tons.
According to the official data of the Don Ministry of Agriculture, for the harvest of 2021, agricultural enterprises and peasant farms planted potatoes on an area of almost 6,1 thousand hectares. To date, more than 3,2 thousand hectares have been harvested, the gross harvest amounted to almost 88,7 thousand tons with a yield of 280 c / ha.
The sown area of vegetables at agricultural enterprises and farms this year amounted to 6,2 thousand. ha. To date, Don vegetable growers have already harvested from 3,1 thousand hectares, the gross harvest amounted to almost 80 thousand tons, with an average yield of 258,7 c / ha.
It should be noted that industrial seasonal vegetable growing in the Rostov region is concentrated in 12 municipal districts of the Southern, Azov and Central irrigated zones of the region. More than 100 agricultural organizations are engaged in the cultivation of vegetables in open ground. Vegetable production of the region is dominated by the production of vegetables in the open field: potatoes, cabbage, carrots, beets, onions, garlic, tomatoes, cucumbers and other vegetables are grown.
“The development of vegetable growing in open and closed ground is an important agricultural direction, both for the Don region and for the country as a whole,” said Viktor Goncharov, First Deputy Governor of the Rostov Region. - We see the prospects for vegetable growing in open ground in the expansion of the areas of reclaimed land, which in turn will increase the acreage of vegetable crops. So, in 2021, over 380 million rubles were allocated from the federal and regional budgets for the development of land reclamation in the Rostov region. In addition, greenhouse vegetable growing is also developing on the Don - there are six greenhouse complexes that produce more than 25,5 thousand tons of vegetables annually ”.
As for fruits, fruit and berry crops in the Rostov region have already been harvested from an area of more than 455 hectares, the gross harvest has already exceeded 920 tons with a yield of 20,5 c / ha.