Now promising high-yielding varieties of potatoes are available for cultivation in harsh climatic conditions.
Scientists of the Research Institute of Agriculture of the Komi Republic have developed new promising potato varieties that will allow you to get a full harvest in northern conditions - 1,7 times higher in comparison with other varieties that are used on farms, writes TASS.
Andrei Yudin, acting director of the institute, told TASS reporters about the achievements of breeders from KOMI. “12 potato breeding lines with yields from 400 to 1600 g per bush have been identified, one promising hybrid with a yield of 33,8 tons per hectare. It is resistant to a complex of fungal diseases, cancer, golden nematode. In 2017, an author’s certificate was obtained for the Zyryanets variety.
We are now offering this variety, as well as the Pamyati Polevoy variety, for sale, both of these varieties are resistant to pests and diseases, are fruitful and at the same time have excellent taste, ”Yudin said during a meeting organized on the Day of Russian Science.
According to him, breeders are already receiving applications from farmers and residents of the republic, since the varieties "allow you to get an excellent harvest in the conditions of the Komi Republic - in a short growing season and long daylight hours."
As explained by Yudin TASS, the yield of the Zyryanets variety is 33,8 tons per ha almost 1,7 times higher than the yield of other varieties grown in Komi, which reaches about 20 tons per ha. The variety “Memory of the Field” has not yet received an author’s certificate, but breeders are working in this direction. “Work on these varieties has been going on for more than 10 years, and it continues.
At the moment, scientists have 12 breeding lines of potatoes or hybrids, from which they expect to get varieties - resistant to frost and other unfavorable weather conditions, to diseases, fruitful, keeping quality and good taste, ”he said.
Source: http://tass.ru