Start the sowing campaign of potato in Spain and one of the doubts recurring each year is: What variety of seed grow?. As we have mentioned on previous occasions, there are a lot of varieties suited to the national territory, but you need to make a wise choice with regard to criteria such as: type of soil, climate, cycle of the potato, price of the seed, a market that you want to allocate, etc Today in patatadesiembra.is we talk about the variety ACTRICE.
There are areas where there is no space for this discussion, areas in which the choice of varieties is not debatable. Areas in which, year after year, repeating the same varieties. In the world of the potato is quite common to find farmers faithful to a variety of potato. The variety of SOUR tends to be one of the most appreciated among farmers faithful to a range determined by its popularity and stability year after year.
In this article we want to talk about a variety of very interesting and recommended for all those who have any doubts at this point about ‘what variety to plant‘: ACTRICE. This is one of the varieties with better acceptance and career in Spain in the last 10 years. Although the floor space it occupies at the national level there is still quite far from most popular varieties as SOUR, SOPRANO or MONALISA.
ACTRICE: 10 years of poor results in Spain
The variety ACTRICE is the most popular in the catalog of the producer Dutch AGROPLANT B. V., with a presence in countries around the world, with special relevance in Israel, Greece, Vietnam, Cuba, Italy, Egypt, Morocco, Spain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, and France. In Spain, this variety of markets the company VAN RIJN SEEDS, S. L.
Variety ACTRICE: productive, early, yellow and good wash.
The variety ACTRICE is a variety of cycle very early and a very high performance. High tuber and tubers round-oval of a large size. His flesh and skin are yellow, perfect for washing and for fresh consumption. It is also quite good for fried home, by your percentage of dry matter, close to 20%.
With respect to your departure, commercial, commenting that it is one of the varieties that we can find on the shelves of supermarkets (like LIDL and MERCADONA), so that is a very appreciated variety in the market of washing. Another interesting option for this variety is the export thanks to its earliness.
