The contribution of the Kostroma State Agricultural Academy to the Russian potato growing is becoming more significant

Seed Potato

Fresh Common Potato

Vegetables

Russia

Published May 28, 2023

Tridge summary

Microclones and macrocrops: the laboratory of agricultural biotechnology of the Kostroma State Agricultural Academy has entered new production facilities. At the university, the capacity of the laboratory for growing potato plants and fruit and berry crops by microclonal propagation has been tripled. This will help provide not only the Kostroma region with seed potatoes, but also enough to share with other regions. At the expense of the Board of Trustees of the Kostroma State Agricultural Academy, a new light and operating box was recently built, modern equipment for microclonal propagation of plants was purchased and put into operation, and the staff was expanded. These changes will allow the Academy to expand the current "in vitro" collection of promising competitive potato varieties by 2024 at the level of 50-55 thousand plants and 180-200 thousand pieces of mini-tubers per year.

Original content

This is enough to 100% improve planting material for seed enterprises in the Kostroma region and sell the surplus to other regions. “The phytosanitary and natural and climatic conditions of our region make it possible to obtain a healthy, good potato seed material. Now we are focusing on the fact that we have our own breeding centers in the region, which fully meet the needs of our region. Moreover, we already see that a number of our seed farms supply seeds to neighboring regions,” says Andrey Plotnikov, Director of the Department of Agro-Industrial Complex of the Kostroma Region. Already in the spring of this year, the Kostroma State Agricultural Academy sold large batches of first-generation minitubers not only to the Kostroma, but also to the Lipetsk, Vologda, Ivanovo regions. Virus-free planting material of the highest quality categories is in demand both among large potato ...

Source: Agroxxi