Elite potato varieties for increased yield

Every gardener knows that the yield of any crop depends not only on favorable conditions for planting and growing a particular vegetable or fruit, but also on their variety. This also applies to such a common crop as potatoes.

Elite potato varieties give a much higher yield than regular potatoes and provide a virus-free planting material that gives a stable harvest and tasty dishes after preparing such potatoes.

Elite varieties of potatoes in a fairly wide range can be found among the types of Dutch potatoes, which have managed to win the trust of not only farmers, but also culinary specialists around the world. Most popular elite varieties of Dutch potatoes are considered Fresco, Red Scarlett, Latona, Romano, Impala, Condor. These varieties are capable of producing about 600-800 quintals per hectare with sufficient field irrigation and proper conditions for growing potatoes.

Among domestic elite potato varieties The following varieties should be highlighted - Udacha, Golubizna, Lugovskoy, Zhukovsky early, Nevsky. The yield of this potato is much lower than that of Dutch potatoes, but you can grow such potatoes on your plots for more than 5 years, planting crops from good bushes. While Dutch potatoes can be planted for maximum 3 years in a row, then their eliteness is lost, the yield falls, and the potatoes themselves are no longer elite varieties. Dutch breeders know how to make money in this field.

So-called elite potato varieties can be grown on your own plots simply by planting large tubers from yield-rich bushes.