Potato production increased in Devashtich district (Tajikistan)

Farmers in the Devashtich district have harvested a record potato harvest in 2020. In all forms of farming, 126 thousand tons of this tuber crop were harvested, which is 6 thousand tons more than last year. Farmers have laid down part of the crop grown as seed material for the 2021 season. According to Kamol Yusupov, head of the district's agriculture department, 35,000 tons of potatoes have been allocated for these needs, of which 20,000 tons will be used in Devashtich itself, and 15,000 tons are planned to be sold to farmers in other regions of the republic. This year, potatoes in the district were grown on an area of 5,400 hectares, and next year it is planned to allocate a thousand hectares more for this crop. On the lands of Devashtich, along with the traditional varieties of potatoes "Picasso", "Big Rose", seed potatoes of the varieties "Ovchi-Gonchi" and "Komilboy" bred by Tajik breeders are increasingly being planted. Read also: The cost of quince on the Tajik market ...