On December 24, 2019, the Department of Agriculture and Food Resources of the region held a meeting on the development of potato growing in the Vologda region.
The event was attended by researchers from the Institute of Potato Management named after A.G. Lorch and the Vologda State Agricultural Academy named after N.V. Vereshchagin, representatives of the Department of Agriculture and Food Resources of the Vologda Oblast, municipal administrations, heads and specialists of agricultural organizations and peasant (farmer) farms of the potato industry, employees of the Rosselkhoznadzor Office, Rosselkhoztsentr, Agrokhimtsentra, as well as regional representatives of the companies August Firm, JSC Bayer Crop Science, Syngenta LLC and Korteva Agriency.
The meeting discussed issues such as the prospects of potato breeding for potato selection and seed production in the region, an integrated system of plant protection and mineral nutrition, certification of agricultural organizations in the Vologda region, conditions for imposing and removing quarantine. The participants were acquainted with the existing measures in the region of state support for agricultural producers.
During the event, the director of the SPSKK Ustyuzhensky Potato Alexander Kuznetsov acquainted the meeting participants with an exposition of varieties cultivated in the Vologda Oblast.
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