EC: potatoes crop under the threat

Article warns the reader about the high prices for potatoes because of a wide circulation of a bacteriosis of potatoes striking tubers, causing rotting of stalks of a plant.

Poleinform …

According to various European sources, the crop kar­tofelya in EU countries can appear once again under the threat because of a wide circulation of a bacteriosis of potatoes, veyodushchy to rotting of stalks of a plant and striking tubers. The reason of distribution of a disease warm and vlazhyony weather is considered. And even means of protection don’t rescue a plant since in mnoyogy production regions the rain goes almost daily. One more problem – deficiency of SZR thus becomes ripe.

Last year producers of potatoes of the European Union because of a drought received extremely poor harvest of tubers of very poor quality which, besides, was very badly stored. Respectively, the prices for potatoes in a leaving season reached record znacheyoniya. Therefore in 2007 the European farmers actively expanded the areas under potatoes. Nevertheless, all points to that, as this year the prices for potatoes will remain high.

(On Ovoshchevodstvo magazine materials).