This year in the region there are various difficulties with potatoes: the Colorado potato beetle in private backyards and gardens (such a number of pests in the region have never been seen before), and unfavorable weather. And to this are added many years of systemic problems associated with recessions and failures in breeding and seed production. As a result, every year the potatoes are getting smaller, more expensive and of lower quality. Plus a pandemic, general unfavorable trends in the global food market.
And taking into account the above, Krasnoyarsk residents are doubly valuable that they have created one of five in Russia and the only agricultural enterprise in Eastern Siberia and the Far East that is engaged not only in growing potatoes, but also in scientific and production activities to remove seeds of dozens of varieties from test tubes. , then microtubers in greenhouses, from which super-elite potatoes are obtained. This high-quality material is supplied to potato growers in many regions of the country, and of course, to the fields of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. You can see for yourself how high-quality Colomba potatoes, grown in our Siberia, look like in the photo.
ИLya Naimushin / International news agency "Russia Today"