Scientists from Russia and Belarus have developed a unique variety of wheat

“Mila is winter-hardy, resistant to lodging and diseases,” said Vladimir Torikov, professor of the department of agronomy, selection and seed production of the university. - The average grain yield in the Bryansk region is 78.9 centners per hectare. When testing "Mila" on farms in the Starodubsky district of the Bryansk region, 120 centners per hectare were collected. According to the scientist, the Mila variety was bred from a hybrid population selected by breeders of the Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Agriculture. At the experimental station of the Bryansk State Agrarian University and in the farms of the Starodub district, university scientists developed and implemented an intensive technology for cultivating the Mila variety. - We have been working successfully with our Belarusian colleagues for a long time; they have an excellent base of wheat varieties that give high performance in comparison with our varieties. Breeding a ...