The first to join the campaign were the enterprises of the Ipatovo city district. This season, the average yield of potatoes in the district is 320 centners per hectare, which is almost a third more than last year, according to the Ministry of Agriculture of the UK. This was made possible thanks to the development of modern innovative technologies in the field of land reclamation at farms.
By the way, this year, potato and vegetable plantations in the region have grown, emphasizes the First Deputy Prime Minister of the region Nikolai Velikdan. Potatoes were planted on an area of more than five thousand hectares, which is eight percent more than last year, and vegetable crops of open ground - over 7,7 thousand hectares, respectively, seven percent more. Basically, the area occupied by the “second bread” is concentrated in agricultural enterprises of the Ipatovo, Kirov districts, Piedmont and Krasnogvardeisky districts. And the production of vegetables of unprotected soil is preferred by agricultural enterprises and farms of the Blagodarnensky, Ipatovsky, Izobilnensky and Neftekumsky districts, as well as the Krasnogvardeisky, Novoselitsky, Levokumsky, Arzgirsky districts.