A regional meeting was held in the Nizhny Novgorod region, at which they discussed the development of potato growing in modern conditions, reports press service of the Rosselkhozcenter. The initiator and organizer of the meeting is the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the Russian Agricultural Center.
The meeting participants discussed the prospects for developing the production of domestic potato varieties and the possibility of import substitution of seeds.
The event was held with the participation of the Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Nizhny Novgorod Region Grigoriev O.V. The main guest of the seminar was a representative of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “Federal Potato Research Center named after A.I. A.G. Lorkha, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Center Simakov E.A. He spoke about the state of the potato industry in the Russian Federation as a whole, about promising domestic potato varieties of the center's breeding.
The topic of state support for agricultural producers who are ready to engage in the production of potato seeds was also discussed. This was told by the head of the department of intensification of crop production of the regional Ministry of Agriculture and Food Silantyeva L.V.
Farmers-practitioners (Skvortsov A.F. (A / f "Iskra"), Krylov A.G. (IP GKFH) shared their experience of working with original seeds (minitubers). The topic of mineral nutrition of potatoes was touched upon (Novozhilov I.S. , OJSC “Buisky Chemical Plant”), as well as the procedure for subsidizing irrigation and drainage works (Kutyaev V.M., Federal State Budgetary Institution “Management of Nizhny Novgorod Meliovodkhoz”).
The meeting was productive, in the form of a lively dialogue, both the main problems of the development of potato growing and ways to solve them were discussed.
The practical part of the event included a visit to the greenhouse complex of the Russian Agricultural Center, where the production of healthy seed potatoes has been established. The participants of the event had the opportunity to get acquainted with the process of growing mini-tubers and the technical equipment of greenhouses, as well as ask the specialists of the branch all their questions regarding the production of original seeds.