Russia: Kuban started sowing sugar beet 2023

Beet growers continue to be compensated for the purchase of Russian-selected sugar beet seeds This was announced by the Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratyev on his social networks on March 21. - In the Kuban began to sow sugar beets. Nearly 200,000 hectares have been allocated for this crop. Every year, farmers increase the area sown with the seeds of our selection. For our part, we continue to compensate agricultural producers for the purchase of Russian seeds - this year we will allocate 15 million rubles from the regional budget. Moreover, we will continue to plant sugar beet seedlings so that by 2024 at least half of the sown area will be occupied by our Kuban varieties,” wrote Veniamin Kondratiev. The largest areas of this culture are in Pavlovsky, Bryukhovetsky, Vyselkovsky, Starominsky, Beloglinsky, Leningradsky, Gulkevichsky and Ust-Labinsky districts. The Krasnodar Territory is the largest beet sugar producing region. Its share in the total Russian ...