Russia is fully provided with potatoes – Ministry of Agriculture
To date, the Russian market is fully provided with potatoes, including processed ones. The Ministry of Agriculture announced this in its Telegram channel.
B explains that now a new crop of root crops is already being destroyed in the country. They also referred to data potato compound, according to the conditions in the country, there is no need to import french fries. According to the ministry, this year the sown area has already increased by four percent over last year, or up to 290,000 hectares. In total, 105 thousand tons of potatoes have already been dug out of them. At the same time, the pace of work is 3.3 percent higher than last year.
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The agency’s announcement came in response to an earlier announcement by the Vkusno-i Tochka chain (an updated Russian version of McDonald’s) that some of its locations would not have French fries and village potatoes. It even titled its post by analogy with the name of the network “There are potatoes – and that’s it.” Reasons for the network named neurobiology last year of those varieties of culture that have survived in the traditions of the menu. She also said that the full volume of voluminous potatoes will appear in their assortment no earlier than this autumn. The same term was also called by the deputies of the Association of Producers and Distribution of Foodstuffs (“Rusprodsoyuz”) Dmitry Leonov, Executive Director of the Potato Association of Russia Alexei Krasilnikov, said that the new problems of distribution coverage are not with the harvest, the head with the interruption of the root crop from Estonia and the population. The only supplier of processed products to the successor of McDonald’s is OOO LMV Rus. One of its owners considers an American-Dutch Lamb Weston Meyer.
Experts believe that the increase in crop yields and increased risk of growing root crops for the production of potato products in fast food restaurants. For example, in our country there is a plant of the Belaya Dacha company in the Lipetsk region and a number of producers and a choice of this variety from abroad. However, at present they name the main problem of potatoes with the importation of seed potatoes from the sanctioned countries.