What will we sow?

Having partly preserved the seed production system from the Soviet times, Belarus is fully self-sufficient in the seeds of the main crops. “This applies to rye, wheat, barley, triticale,” says Dmitry Luzhinsky, Deputy Director General for Science of the Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for agriculture. - For example, today there are 2.5 times more seeds for spring sowing of barley than needed. But buckwheat seeds are not enough to reach the full requirement of about 30 percent. The sowing of this culture is greatly expanding in the country, but seed production is not able to meet the sharply increased demand in a year. You may have to buy buckwheat seeds from Russia. However, not a single country in the world provides itself completely with seeds. And there are objective reasons for this. For example, heat-loving tomatoes, beans, sweet corn can be grown in far from sunny Belarus, but their seeds should be produced in optimal climatic ...