On December 9, a meeting with seed potato producers was held at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Novgorod Region.
There are five certified seed farms in the region - Denis Pavlyuk, Anatoly Lipatov, Ivan Pireev, Nikolay Kolesnikov, Ivan Geletey. This year they produced more than eight thousand tons of potato seeds of high reproductions of domestic and foreign selection. Including:
- super-superelite class - 129 tons;
- superelite class - 1821 tons;
- elite class - 6522 tons.
The farms are also engaged in the cultivation of mini-tubers of potatoes.
In 2022, the seed enterprises of the region produced 470193 pieces of mini-tubers of Red Scarlett, Rosara, Impala, Aurora, Innovator, Riviera, BP 808, Sineglazka 216, Violet, Romano and Colomba varieties.
In 2022, the share of elite potato seeds in the total area under crops in the region was 39,0% (in 2021 - 37%). The share of potato seeds of domestic selection amounted to 32,0% (average in Russia - 15%, in the North-West - 17,7%).
At the meeting, it was noted that in order to accelerate the pace of import substitution in the field of potato seed production in 2023, it is planned to increase the sown area by five percent.
Recall that since 2019, a priority regional project “Development of potato seed production” has been implemented in the region.
The main objective of the project is to provide agricultural producers of the region with potato seeds of high reproductions of their own production up to 45% by 2025.