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Russia: Kuban plans to fully provide itself with seeds of wheat, rice and sunflower

Russia
Published Jun 30, 2022

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The Krasnodar Territory during this year's sowing campaign will fully provide itself with seeds of winter and spring wheat, barley and rice, soybeans and sunflower. Work to provide domestic sugar beet seeds is currently ongoing, Governor of the Krasnodar Territory Veniamin Kondratiev said in an interview with TASS. He clarified that one of the strategic tasks for farmers and scientists in the region is to provide local sugar beet seeds.

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According to him, in order to resolve the issue, the Ministry of Agriculture of the region is developing a regional program for the development of sugar beet seed production, which will allow replacing foreign analogues in the near future. "As for the sowing campaign in 2023 - <...> there is planting material for all major crops, where foreign analogues are still used, in the future we will help farmers switch to domestic seeds," the head of the region added, noting that a similar the situation is observed with fertilizers. So, according to Kondratiev, a sufficient number of them are produced in Russia. There are no problems with deliveries, the schedule of which has been approved for the next sowing campaign. The Krasnodar ...
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