Successfully produced super-pure potatoes

Ms. Tran Thi Hang, Director of Lao Cai Agriculture-Forestry Seed Center, said that the Center has just bred and successfully produced the disease-free Atlantic super-potato variety of the Netherlands.

Previously, the Center received the transfer of technology for producing clean potato seeds at all levels from cell tissue culture, potato production technology by aerodynamic methods, super-prototypal potato production from the Public Institute. Biotechnology and Hanoi Agricultural University.

Harvest potatoes

The center has conducted production of 1 ha of potato in Atlantic variety to clean up the super-level disease from the root seed source cultured by cell tissue culture technology in the grid area of ​​the Center. Initially assessing post-harvest after planting in a quarantine net with an area of ​​1ha, potato grows well.

90-day growth period, high density of tubers reaching 38.4 tubers / m ² , 4-5 tubers / root, the average weight reached 27.3 grams. Actual yield reaches 9.5 tons / ha, tubers reach standard, disease-free and have been checked for quality at the National Plant Testing Center. The yield will multiply over 1,000 tons of pure potatoes and confirm 1, 2 in 2014.

Engineer Do Thi Bac, Head of Technical Department of Lao Cai Agriculture and Forestry Seed Center also said: For Lao Cai, so far, farmers have mainly cultivated potatoes purchased domestically and partly imported. so the price is high and not actively and well-supplied. Therefore, it is expected that in the coming years, the Center will deploy 3-5 hectares of clean super-protozoa per year to meet 5,000-6,000 tons of potato varieties / year. Thereby, farmers are more proactive in finding sources of disease-free potato seeds, restructuring crops, contributing to poverty reduction in localities.

It is known that the research and production of this potato variety is the policy of Lao Cai province in the self-control of the source of disease-free potato seed supplied to Lao Cai province and the potato growing provinces of the North, bringing Lao Cai back. into a large seed potato production area and produce disease-free seed potatoes for the market.