Potato training
Potato Seed Development project:
Climate Smart Potato Demonstration Centre
Potato farming consultant of Agrico Ukraine
Would you like to receive more information about Agrico Ukraine and scientific support for growing our varieties? Or do you have other questions about our business and/or activities?
Do not hesitate to contact us with your questions!
Victor RIZNYK
Potato farming consultant of Agrico Ukraine
Potato cultivation training
- Preparation (crop rotation & soil sampling, weed killing & ploughing, fertiliser application & nutrients);
- Planting (furrows & ridges, row distances, planting distances, tuber spacing, certified seed potatoes, treatments);
- Growing (weed killing, top dressing, nematodes);
- Disease (recognising types of diseases, prevention, treatment, timing, planning, waste management);
- Harvesting (maturing period, harvesting, grading, sorting);
- Storing techniques (temperatures, humidity & ventilation; Energy & back-up systems).
Harvesting. Field preparation: destruction of tops
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Harvesting. Field preparation and determining the harvesting time (maturing period).
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Potato (field) equipment training
- Land preparation;
- Planters;
- Ridgers & re-ridgers;
- Sprayers;
- Harvesters;
- Sorters.
Regenerative farming training
- Cover crops – soil health
- Rotary digging instead of ploughing as soil preparation
- Fertigation
- Drip irrigation
- No-till for grain/row-crops during the crop rotation
- Latest techniques
Business case training
- Net profit increase;
- Cost price reduction;
- Revenue growth;
- De-risking potato farming;
- Partnerships: partners who will support in training (Yara UA, Syngenta UA, Adama UA, Irrigator UA).
Contacts:
Agrico Ukraine
3, Kovpaka Str.
Kyiv, 03150, Ukraine
tel:+380991000454;
+380671000454
e-mail: potato@agrico.com.ua