Nigella seed production will be developed in the Stavropol Territory of Russia

Testing and introduction into seed production of new varieties of essential oil crops will take place on the basis of the Cossack agricultural enterprise "Staropavlovskoe" of the Kirov district. The farm has signed an agreement with the Institute of Agriculture of Crimea, which implies not only growing certified seeds of nigella, dill, parsley, coriander, anise, which are not inferior to the best world samples, in the fields of Staropavlovsky, but also the use of new plant protection systems and the creation of processing of essential oil products on the technologies of the Research Institute of Agriculture of the Crimea. - This season we have already started growing nigella (black cumin). The farm allocated 5 hectares for this crop. The costs of its production are quite high - about 40 thousand rubles per 1 hectare. But the cost of good quality commercial seeds is 400 thousand rubles per ton, - said Mikhail Serkov, director of KSHP Staropavlovskoye, Kirovsky district. As part of ...