The gross harvest of vegetables of the closed ground of agricultural organizations of the Krasnodar Territory, which are not related to small business entities, in January—October 2022 amounted to 88.6 thousand tons. This is almost 3 thousand tons more than in the same period last year. This was reported to Kommersant-Kuban in Krasnodarstat.
According to the regional Ministry of Agriculture and Processing Industry, Krasnodar Krai today is one of the three leading regions in the collection of greenhouse vegetables together with the Moscow and Lipetsk regions. In the region, the production of vegetable products of protected soil is more than 16 kg per inhabitant at a rate of 12 kg. The production plan in 2022 is 112 thousand tons.
“A stable volume of production is provided by the expansion of the greenhouse area and an increase in output per unit of used area, which is achieved by the introduction of new technologies for growing vegetables in protected soil, as well as the use of high-yielding varieties. In the coming years, according to forecasts of industry experts, the production of greenhouse vegetables in the Kuban may grow to 130-140 thousand tons. This is due to the revival of investment activity aimed at the implementation of projects for the construction of new high—tech greenhouse complexes,” Fedor Dereka, Minister of Agriculture and Processing Industry of the Krasnodar Territory, tells Kommersant-Kuban.
According to the regional Ministry of Agriculture, 11 industrial high-tech greenhouse complexes with a total area of more than 240 hectares are operating in the Kuban. They account for 96% of the total volume of greenhouse vegetables in the region. The leaders in the production of protected ground vegetables are Dinskoy, Belorechensky, Timashevsky, Krasnoarmeysky, Seversky districts and Krasnodar. “It is here that the largest greenhouse complexes of the region with the most advanced production technologies are concentrated. On many technological equipment allows you to get more than 70 kg of vegetables from one square meter,” the press service of the department reports.
So, one of the largest greenhouse complexes in Russia “Green Line” belongs to the retail chain “Magnet” and is located in the Dinsky district of Krasnodar Krai. “This year we expect to get more harvest due to the expansion of production capacities — about 58 thousand tons of cucumbers and tomatoes of various types, including cherry and cocktail tomatoes, on which we place great emphasis due to the popularity of the positions,” the company’s press service says.
Vice-president of the Association “Greenhouses of Russia”, founder of LLC “UK “Most-Agro” Andrey Medvedev claims that at the moment there is a high overstocking of the market with cucumbers. This is explained by the fact that cucumber is the fastest growing and fastest—paying product. “Moreover, almost all producers grow one kind of cucumbers. You will not see more selective types of products anywhere,” Mr. Medvedev reports. He adds that import substitution has not been carried out for tomatoes in the region, since tomatoes are longer, more difficult and more expensive to grow.
Margarita Sinkevich
A source: https://www.kommersant.ru
