This year, the company TVK Seed (Kyiv region) conducted trials of a new crop for them — green mash, or as it is also called, mung beans.
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They sowed it on several plots, with a total area of 1 ha, writes SuperAgronom.com. Oleksiy Koshynskyi, the agronomist of the farm, spoke about the technology used to grow mash. According to him, the crop was sown on May 23. A bit late, the optimal time would have been in the 1st or 2nd decade of May, but the farm initially needed to sow the main industrial areas, and only then the experimental plots. In general, the details of the technology were determined by studying relevant literature. In particular, they applied a sowing rate of 420 thousand seeds/ha. If we consider the mass of a thousand seeds to be 56 g, then it amounted to 23 kg/ha. The seeds were treated on their own, using an inoculant, trace elements, and the fungicide seed treatment Vybrans 500 FC. They sowed with a Väderstad Rapid seeder, with a sowing depth of 5 cm. They immediately carried out rolling and applied a soil herbicide. "Since we did not find any registered insurance herbicides for mash on our market, we ...
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