In Yalchik district, early potato harvesting began. The area of the second bread in all farms of the republic is 20 thousand hectares.
Prices for farmers are not encouraging yet - around 15 rubles per kilogram. Natalia Yegorova will tell you what agricultural producers in the regional Ministry of Agriculture think about this.
Natalia Egorova, Ekaterina Fomina, Semyon Antonov
In this agrofirm, early potatoes are going to be dug up on 40 hectares. The work has just begun, but the yield is already quite good, - say agricultural producers. The Impala variety gives 250 centners per hectare. Soon these potatoes will already reach Chuvash consumers. The digger works, but the tubers are harvested by hand so as not to damage - the early ones have a very delicate peel. The agricultural organization attracts local residents for cleaning.
- We sort large and small, divide by size, teams of 5-7 people sort, two small, the rest are large, - says a local resident Maria Mikhailova.
- Large potatoes, good to collect, - says local resident Vera Chernov.
The main problem that the agrarians who grow the second bread are voicing today is the price.
- To date, unfortunately, says Ramil Idiatullin, executive director of the Slava Potato agricultural company, - the price is not what we expected, we expected about 20-25 rubles, today it is slightly lower than planned.
More precisely, while it is 15 rubles per kilogram. The Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic notes: because of the low price, many farmers this year reduced the area for potatoes. The decrease in territories is observed as a whole throughout the country.
- Last year, potatoes in agricultural organizations and farms were at the level of 8 thousand hectares, this year about 6 thousand 400 hectares, decreased in general in all organizations, - said the Minister of Agriculture of Chuvashia Sergey Artamonov.
Another of the serious problems for potato growers is storage and processing of products. The regional Ministry of Agriculture proposes to combine the efforts of producers to solve it.
- We hope that we will be able to create a large cooperative, subsidize up to 60 percent of the costs. And carry out the primary processing: washing, packing, and deep: the production of chips, French fries. But again, it is necessary to deal with varieties, it is impossible to do this from our varieties, - emphasizes the Minister of Agriculture Sergey Artamonov.
There are farms that are not losing ground. In this agricultural company, for example, the area for potatoes has not been reduced, on the contrary, new warehouses are being built for storage, and promising varieties of domestic and foreign selection are also grown. Seeds are delivered both to Chuvashia and to neighboring regions, and also to neighboring countries. In August, they will start harvesting ware potatoes - the yield promises to be high - up to 50 tons per hectare.
Source: http://chgtrk.ru/