There are five certified farms for the production of potato seeds in the region, of which four - peasant farms of Denis Pavlyuk, Anatoly Lipatov, Nikolai Kolesnikov and Ivan Geletey - are engaged in primary seed production, grow minitubers from microplants, which are prepared in the laboratory - on the basis of the branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Rosselkhoztsentr" for Novgorod region.
Now the harvesting of minitubers has been completed and they are being counted - it is planned to receive 400 thousand pieces. According to experts from the regional departments of the Rosselkhoztsentr, all the source material is in good condition and meets the requirements of GOST.
Note that the branch of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Rosselkhoztsentr" has been cooperating with seed farms since 2016, growing microplants in its own laboratory. Then minitubers are planted in nurseries of seed farms, the next year the obtained seeds are used for the production of seed potatoes of high reproduction on farms. Seed material of the next year is sold to agricultural producers and summer residents.