This was announced to reporters by the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Moscow Region Sergey Voskresensky at the Day of the Potato Field Potato Russia, held on August 6 in the Dmitrovsky urban district of the region.
“We set ourselves the task of harvesting at least 30 thousand tons of potatoes this year than last year. The weather conditions were very difficult, we could not enter the field for a long time because of the lingering rains. Then the heat was not typical for our region. We even declared a weather emergency to protect our farmers from fines, ”said Sergei Voskresensky.
The minister noted that a more accurate view will appear with the beginning of an active harvest of potatoes.
5 large agricultural holdings and more than 90 farms are engaged in the production of potatoes and open field vegetables in the Moscow region. The sown area this year is 12,5 thousand hectares.