A “Potato Tour across Russia” visit to the Republic of Tatarstan, to the project’s general partner — Avgust https://youtu.be/h9Wm05duvlA?si=B9g7WW-rCz9sYZWS Avgust guided us through its complex in the Alabuga Special Economic Zone (SEZ). On a single site the…
Highlights: 20+ years in potatoes, irrigation restored, in-house agri-lab (PCR/ELISA, clonal micropropagation, bioproducts), focus on domestic varieties and seed production, stable sales to national retail. https://youtu.be/-VS1RkgGQo0?si=TT8mMnRX_6jIMEXx From Poultry Complex to a “Potato School” Tsirulev’s farm grew atop…
Russian potato breeding has made a qualitative leap in recent years, but the toughest challenge isn’t creating varieties—it’s getting them to market at home and abroad. In a conversation with Vladimir Molyanov, head of the Molyanov Agro…
A “Potato Tour across Russia” visit to Moscow Oblast. Conversation with Valentin Kozlov https://youtu.be/eWGJjwwFbTM Valmix is a rare example on the Russian market of a pure seed operation that has been built methodically for over a decade…
Hello everyone! My name is Viktor Kovalev, I’m the founder of PotatoNews and the organizer of the Potato Tour across Russia. On February 5, we kicked off a large expedition to the country’s potato farms. We’re filming…
The recent unveiling of a new national branding style by the National Tourism Agency has turned heads, not with grandiose architecture or historical figures, but with a symbol deeply familiar to every farmer: the potato flower. This…
Produced as part of the Potato Tour across Russia by Potatoes News. From fields to a full-cycle enterpriseDmitrovskie Ovoschi began in 1992 as a small open-field vegetable farm in the Dmitrov district near Moscow. Founder Sergey Filippov…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx8DiM6S11U The Potato Tour across Russia continues—today we’re in the Tavrichesky District of the Omsk Region, Kharlanga village. We’re meeting a farm that entered vegetable growing from scratch and, in ten years, built a resilient model around…
https://youtu.be/feGvdp9IuX8 Here’s how our visit to Tver Agroprom LLC went as part of the “Potato Tour of Russia” project. We spoke with General Manager Dmitry Sergeyevich Minashkin about the company’s history, growing and storage technologies, staffing and…
https://youtu.be/5pmjeHAd8SQ International Potato Tour (Международный картофельный тур) keeps rolling through the industry’s key hubs. This time we’re in the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Gorodetsky District: the 25-year-old Agrotrade Group and the seed company Aksentis, where preparations are already…
Nestled along the Wei River, Weiyuan County in Gansu Province has earned its reputation as China’s “Potato Seed Capital.” On July 19, 2024, national experts gathered here for the National Potato Industry Technology System Seminar and the Gansu Academy…
Potato farmers in Gangwon Province, particularly in Chuncheon, have long relied on the ‘Sumi’ variety. However, climate change has drastically reduced its yield and quality. The alternative, ‘Dubaek,’ also struggles with heat stress during the monsoon season,…