Farmers in Russia may face a decrease in yields due to the replacement of imported seeds with domestic ones

Agricultural producers have already begun to form a seed fund for the future sowing campaign. There will be no problems with grain crops, Russian seeds are of high quality and are available in full. And such crops as corn, sunflower, sugar beet, as a rule, are sown with imported hybrids. Under the sanctions, it is very difficult to buy these seeds. Farmers are trying to replace foreign products, but this may lead to lower yields. As for sunflower, rapeseed, corn, today in the Altai Territory for sunflower only one of the Sibagrocenter enterprises (Rubtsovsky District) has produced today sunflower hybrids and elite seeds on 45% of the sunflower area that we have in the Altai Territory. To date, an analysis of the importation of seeds to the Altai Territory of imported selection suggests that 10% of the need is in the region. These are seeds of imported selection, but produced on the territory of the Russian Federation. Yes, there will probably be a decline, but if there are no ...