In the second decade of July, Belarus started harvesting early potatoes. More than 500 tons have already been collected in the farms of the Stolin region alone. The other day, another district of the Brest region, Luninets, joined the cleanup. Digging potatoes in the Mostovsky and Shchuchinsky districts of the Grodno region. Coming to Minsk region.
According to experts, young potatoes look a little “shaggy”, as they do not have a dense cork layer. Perishable, so it is poorly stored, but this quality plays an insignificant role. Now people buy it not to replenish winter stocks, but to cook delicious and fragrant dishes.
Today, early potatoes are presented on the shelves of many stores in the country. Consumer demand is consistently high, as are the opportunities for agricultural producers. The price in the capital for one kilogram reaches 3 rubles, large retail chains offer at a lower price. By the way, the purchase price in the Stolin district, which has long been assigned the title of a vegetable region, is 1.3 rubles.
– This year, agricultural enterprises and large peasant (farm) enterprises planted potatoes of different ripening periods on an area of 26.1 thousand hectares, which is 1.3 thousand more than last year. Increased potato fields in Vitebsk, Grodno, Minsk and Mogilev regions. The outlook for the harvest is good, – says Tatyana Gumenyuk, Deputy Head of the Department of Potato Growing, Horticulture, Agrochemistry and Plant Protection of the Main Department of Crop Production of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food.
Producers of agricultural products promise to provide the domestic market this year with high quality natural products for full demand. And we are talking not only about early, but also about mid-season, late varieties, which are laid for the off-season period of the year.
