Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the region Mukhazhir Albakov at a meeting with Prime Minister Ruslan Gagiev said that today potato harvesting is taking place throughout Ingushetia on a total area of 705 hectares, which means that the region is in first place throughout Russia for this crop vegetable, the press service of the government.
“As of September 22,6 of this year, the area of harvesting grain crops, including winter and early spring crops, amounted to 100 thousand hectares, or XNUMX%. The introduction of mineral fertilizers and the treatment of crops with pesticides played an important role in increasing the yield, ”the press service quotes Albakov as saying.
The deputy minister noted that to date, 200 hectares have already been harvested and eight thousand tons of tubers harvested, and the average yield is 400 kg / ha. He also said that this year agricultural producers will be provided with their own seeds of higher reproduction by one hundred percent.
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