Currently, the harvesting of potatoes is nearing completion in the Stavropol Territory. Already removed from the area of 4,5 thousand hectares, which is 86% of the plan - 5,3 thousand hectares. Gross harvest amounted to 119 thousand tons, with an average yield of 263 kg / ha. This figure is 18 thousand tons higher than the same period last year, with a yield of 223 kg / ha.
“The leaders in harvesting are CJSC Agricultural Enterprise“ Agroinvest ”of the Ipatovsky urban district, where 1,1 thousand tons of potatoes were produced from an area of 48 thousand hectares, with a yield of 422 c / ha. And that is 44% of the edge. Also in K (F) X of the Piedmont municipal district, 23 thousand tons of potatoes were obtained from an area of 1,2 thousand hectares. The average yield in this area is 180 c / ha, ”said Vladimir Zelenko, head of the reclamation and vegetable growing department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Stavropol Territory.
Source: http://mcx.ru/