In the third decade of April in the region, the optimal dates for planting potatoes and sowing vegetables begin.
Currently, more than 200 hectares of potatoes have been planted, which is 11% of the area planned for planting, about 96 hectares of vegetable crops have been sown, this is 9% of the plan.
The main potato producers in the region are Guryevsky, Gvardeisky, Slavsky and Bagrationovsky urban districts. In total, the share of four districts accounts for more than 80% of all sown areas of this crop. Its landing is already underway in the Guards and Slavsky municipalities.
The regional leader in the production of vegetables in the open field is the Guryev District, where it is planned to place vegetable crops on an area of about 650 hectares. To date, 15% of the plan has been sown.
In total, over one thousand hectares will be employed in the region's commodity-producing farms under open field vegetables, and over two thousand under potatoes.
According to the regional Ministry of Agriculture, now farmers are sowing early varieties of vegetables and planting early varieties of potatoes; they will begin mass planting of seedling crops in May.