Specialists of the branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Rosselkhoztsentr" in the Yaroslavl region carried out a tuber analysis of seed potatoes with a volume of 3,548 thousand tons.
The maximum damage by late blight - 5,2% - was detected on the Vineta variety in a batch of 110 tons, by rhizoctonia - 7,6% - on the Red Scarlett variety in the 20 tons batch, and by common scab - 32,8% - on the Red Scarlett variety in the 180 batch. tons, silver scab - 1% - on the Red Sonya variety in a batch of 130 tons, black leg - 1,4% - on the Vineta variety in a 110 tons batch, fomoz - 4,6% - on the Vineta variety in a batch of 60 tons, wet rot - 3,4% - on Madeira variety in a batch of 110 tons, dry rot - 23,7% - on Madeira variety in a batch of 110 tons.
Maximum damage by pests (rodents and scoops) - 3% - for Breeze in a batch of 600 tons, wireworm - 0,36% for Red Scarlett in a batch of 60 tons.
The maximum percentage of mechanical damage - 8,1% - was noted for Madeira in a batch of 320 tons.
All tested lots of seed potatoes meet the requirements of GOST 33996-2016.