Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing offers consumers a variety of canteen carrot hybrid Vulkan F1 under a license agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

The hybrid is mid-season, the growing season from full germination to maturity is 110..115 days. The total yield of root crops is 80..85 t / ha, the weight of marketable root crops is 95..120 g. The content of carotene is 18..20 mg%, sugars are 12..14%, the content of nitrates is low (100..150 mg / 100 g wet weight). Good taste. Marketability 95..98%. Resistant to flowers. Keeping quality during winter storage is 90..95%. Chemical composition of root crops: dry matter - 11.7..13.1%, total sugars - 6.1..6.4%, carotene content - 17.4..17.8 mg%.

Hybrid F1 Volcano is suitable for fresh use in the autumn-winter period, in the canning industry, as well as as a raw material in the production of canned food for baby food.

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.

Consumers interested in purchasing the hybrid variety of table carrot Vulcan F1under a license agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing the table carrot hybrid variety Vulcan F1under a distribution services agreement.