Growing seeds
New heat- and drought-resistant varieties join Russia's 2026 seed-certification pipeline
Rosselkhoztsentr verified purity and health of 11 varieties before large-scale multiplication
Firm deadlines put virus-free seed ahead of yield for Punjab's seed potato growers
Egypt wants more of its seed potatoes grown at home, a medium-term shift for seed exporters
Seed growers may get an extra year to comply with rules whose procedures are not yet written
A home-grown certified seed chain would cut Pakistan's reliance on imported and farm-saved seed
Accredited private inspectors could ease the certification bottleneck behind Kenya's seed potato gap
A Dutch-bred variety, but every tuber of seed made in the farm’s own laboratory
Rosselkhoztsentr verifies 11 domestic varieties before wider multiplication
Failing the field inspection costs a grower varietal status and the subsidy that goes with it
Breeding is no longer the constraint - getting clean planting material to farmers is
A modest overall contraction hiding a 12% collapse in one country and growth in another
Half the inspected material is still experimental, which is where import substitution actually stands
Thirty-one years of testing which varieties survive a Yakutian summer
Seeds made in Russia, breeding rights abroad - the gap state support has not closed
$10 million and a Korean partner aimed at 3,900 tonnes of G1 seed by 2030
Output nearly tripled in five years, varieties up from three to seven
Mastak at 22% starch, plus 1.2 million microtubers a year at 98.4% clean
Wart found in soil, not in tubers — and PEI growers say the response is disproportionate
105,155 ha across six regions, down 1.6% — but Belgium falls 12%
158 hectares, seven varieties by maturity, and a wet summer that has not changed the plan
AI aimed at the slowest part of breeding: the years between lab result and farm field
A weather station near Kostanay decides when the sprayer goes out — and when it does not
Andean fields have climbed 300 metres in forty years — above that the soil turns to rock
A 200 m² net house turned 3,000 cuttings a year into 2,670 kg of seed potatoes
Original and elite seed production is the theme — the weakest link in the Russian chain
Move it downhill and it grows bigger — and stops being worth the premium
Winter rain cut the planted area — a PGI crop cannot simply be sown elsewhere
24 years of aid built a seed base first — the brand came after the propagation system
Bred for Siberian conditions — now planted in Irkutsk, Amur and trialled in Belarus
27,952 tubers across 23 varieties — research material, explicitly not commercial seed
Saving seed became illegal in January — the growers doing it did not know
Vi Fry took 1,000 t of Vostorg in 2025 and plans 3,000 t in 2026
“A result matters only when it works in real production” — the institute’s own test
For the first time, Kazakhstan is launching an integrated full-cycle system for producing virus-free seed potatoes — from…
Scientists at the Kamchatka Research Institute of Agriculture (a branch of the Vavilov Institute) have completed the second…
The Rostov Regional branch of the FGBU “Rosselkhozcenter” reminds agricultural producers about the importance of strict compliance with…
The Jeollanam-do Agricultural Research and Extension Services, in collaboration with the Highland Agriculture Research Institute under the National…
Fat-Agro, an enterprise within the Bavaria group of companies, recently hosted Rudolf Schwartzel, an international seed potato expert…
Agricultural producers on Sakhalin Island have dramatically increased their use of Russian seed potatoes, with domestic varieties accounting…
Russian scientists from the Lorch Federal Research Center for Potatoes in the Moscow region have developed a new…
Russian researchers at the Lorch Federal Research Centre for Potato have developed a new potato variety named ‘Alpha’,…
The General Company for Potato Seed Production in Dhamar Governorate, Yemen, has launched the spring season potato harvest…
By the start of this week, farmers in the Sosnovsky district had completed potato planting on 1,451 hectares…
In Arkhangelsk, the agricultural complex “Lyubovskoye” located on the Left Bank is demonstrating how farming can flourish right…
In the Omsk region, scientists and agronomists are successfully implementing an advanced method of growing seed potatoes “from…
An agricultural enterprise in Arkhangelsk has successfully launched full-cycle seed potato production, operating right within the city limits…
For years, Shangi has remained Kenya’s favorite potato variety loved by farmers for its fast maturity and by…
Farmers in Russia’s Chelyabinsk region are gradually increasing the share of domestically bred potatoes on their fields. Experts…
A potato boom of a different kind is sweeping across Europe — colored-flesh potatoes are now in high…
