Spring 2022 in most regions of Russia turned out to be late and rather capricious: the long-awaited warmth in the Volga region, for example, at the height of April, suddenly gave way to a sharp cold snap, and snow fell on the fields. In such conditions it is very difficult to make plans for landing, but our readers nevertheless tried to do it, for which we are very grateful to them.
So, we bring to your attention the results surveyheld among readers mobile application of the Potato System magazine. We asked farmers to answer the question: “When do they plan to start planting potatoes this season?”.
The survey was launched in March, and by that time, planting work was already underway in some farms in our large country.
So, in one of the farms of the Stavropol Territory, they started planting potatoes March 3 (in total, they plan to grow potatoes there on an area of 100 hectares), in the second - from the same region - March 21 (for potatoes 20 hectares are allocated), in the third (Astrakhan region) - March 30 (980 ha under potatoes).
Another farm - located on the territory of Kabardino-Balkaria - began planting 12 April. This crop will be grown here on an area of 150 hectares.
Now let's move on to the responses of the enterprises that shared their plans with us. For starters, the nearest ones.
Literally one of these days - 20 April - Potato planting will begin in the Bryansk region. In the farm of our respondent, 350 hectares have been allocated for this crop this year.
22 April an agricultural enterprise from Primorsky Krai is going to start planting potatoes. The farm will allocate 80 hectares for potatoes.
25 April Four farms were chosen to start work at once: planting will begin in the Smolensk (400 ha under potatoes), Tambov (90 ha under potatoes), Omsk (550 ha under potatoes) and Astrakhan (4 ha under potatoes) regions.
The rest of the participants in our survey believe that the optimal conditions for planting potatoes in their regions this season will not develop until May.
On the 5 May the start of work is planned in the farms located in the Smolensk region (50 hectares under potatoes) and the Krasnoyarsk Territory (850 hectares under potatoes).
9 May agricultural producers from the Novgorod region will go out into the field (70 hectares under potatoes). Following them - 10 May – will start planting in the Nizhny Novgorod region (450 ha under potatoes), as well as in Karelia (60 ha under potatoes), Kirov (106 ha under potatoes) and Yaroslavl (80 ha under potatoes) regions.
11 May planting starts on a farm from the Sverdlovsk region (150 hectares under potatoes). The day after this date - 12 May - the baton will be taken up in another Novgorod enterprise (60 hectares under potatoes).
Not earlier than mid-May, they are going to start work on the farms of other participants in our survey from the Leningrad (150 hectares under potatoes) and Novgorod (30 hectares under potatoes) regions.
On the 18 May an agricultural producer from the Chelyabinsk region postpones the start of planting (10 hectares under potatoes).
Latest start date for work 23 May - called the representative of the farm from the Yaroslavl region. The enterprise allots 150 hectares for cultivation this season.
We wish all potato growers in Russia a successful planting and invite you to participate in surveys regularly published in the supplement of the Potato System magazine. With us you are always aware of the situation in the industry.