Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing offers consumers a late potato variety Vesnyanka under a license or manufacturing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Variety Vesnyanka.
Early maturity: late.
Economic purpose: dining and technical.
Productivity: up to 65.6 t/ha.
Starch content: 15–21.6 %.
Consumer qualities: taste qualities are good, culinary type C; suitable for the production of crisp potatoes and starch.
Disease resistance: resistant to potato nematode, potato cancer; moderately resistant to late blight of leaves and tubers, common scab, viruses.
Morphological features: round-oval tubers; the peel is yellow; eyes small, light pink; creamy pulp; red-purple flowers.

Read more: Vesnyanka late potato variety (in Russian)

Variety features:
– suitable for cultivation on all types of soils, effectively uses natural fertility;
- responsive to the introduction of high doses of mineral fertilizers;
- multi-tuber, when grown for food purposes, the recommended planting density is 45-48 thousand tubers/ha, in seed plots - 55-58 thousand tubers/ha;
- sensitive to waterlogging during the second growing season;
– relatively resistant to mechanical damage;
- good keeping quality;
- the duration of the dormant period of tubers is average.

Included in the State Register of the Republic of Belarus in 2008
Included in the State Register of the Russian Federation in 2008

Patent of the Republic of Belarus No. 187 dated March 25, 2008
Patent of the Russian Federation No. 4215 dated November 6, 2008

Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing is a dynamically developing state scientific selection and seed-growing enterprise in the field of potato growing.

At present, the Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing is one of the leading agrarian scientific institutions in Belarus. The scientific work of the Center is complex. The co-executors of the topic are the Institute of Plant Protection, the Grodno Zonal Institute of Plant Growing, regional agricultural experimental stations, the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, the Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Scientific and Practical Center for Food of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the BSAA and a number of other institutions, which allows deepening theoretical orientation of research, depth of study of experimental material, reliability of conclusions and recommendations for the conditions of various regions of the Republic of Belarus. International cooperation covers many countries, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Germany, China, etc.

Main directions of scientific activity:
1. Creation of fundamentally new varieties and hybrids of potatoes with a yield of 50.0-80.0 t/ha, fruits - 25.0-30.0 t/ha, berries - 10.0-12.0 t/ha and vegetable crops – 40.0–100.0 t/ha.
2. Development of targeted environmentally friendly resource-saving technologies for the production of potatoes, fruit and vegetable crops.
3. Ensuring variety change and variety renewal due to the accelerated production of original seed and planting material.
4. Scientific support of the potato and fruit and vegetable growing industries to increase their economic efficiency, competitiveness and fully meet the needs of the Republic of Belarus with high-quality potato, fruit and vegetable products.

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