Crimean farmers have harvested slightly more than 50% of the potato crop area

For the 2023 harvest, potatoes were planted on more than 3 thousand hectares of Crimean fields. Crimean farmers have harvested slightly more than 50% of the potato sowing area. This was reported byMinister of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea Andrey Savchuk. For the 2023 harvest, potatoes were planted on more than 3 thousand hectares of Crimean fields.
"Now our vegetable growing enterprises have already harvested the crop from an area of about 1,600 hectares, from which they collected more than 25 thousand tons of "second bread". This year, the largest areas where the crop was planted are in the Dzhankoy, Kirovsky and Krasnogvardeisky districts. As a rule, our farmers prefer such varieties as Slavyanka, Gala, Nevsky, Zhukovsky early, Kolomba, Rosara, Riviera. Now farmers are harvesting late varieties in the fields. One of the enterprises where such work is carried out is our flagship SPK Pravda in the Pervomaysky district. In the spring, early potatoes were planted here on about 50 hectares, from which the harvest has already been harvested. Late took about 80 hectares, from 60 of which they have already collected 1,500 tons of harvest . They have also started harvesting table beets here. In addition to these vegetables, the farm also grows carrots , onions, cabbage, cucumbers, tomatoes and many others," the HEAD of the Ministry of Agriculture of Crimea commented.
Andrey Savchuk also noted that this year the expected wave of potatoes in all categories of farms - these are agricultural organizations, and peasant farms, and individual entrepreneurs, as well as households - is more than 70 thousand tons. This is about the same as last year.
"In addition to potatoes, farmers are now harvesting table beets. More than 3 thousand tons of root crops have already been harvested from 200 hectares of fields. In total, more than 500 hectares of area under table beets are to be harvested, which is 30 hectares more than last year. Agricultural producers are also busy harvesting other vegetables from the borscht set: cabbage, onions and carrots. They have already harvested about 50 thousand tons of these crops," the minister added.