Pre-plant meeting, the Minister of agriculture and food of Rostov region Konstantin Rafalowski said that the number of crops remain undervalued in the region.

According to the Minister, chickpeas, and lentils in demand in the market, confirmed that the exhibition "Gulfood" in Dubai. In addition, the region disposes of the necessary capacity and experience for export bean.

However, the Director of the Russian research Institute of grain crops Andrew Alabushev in response to the proposal of the Minister said that fertilizer for the cultivation of chickpea in the region is not available.

"The cultivation of this crop is very profitable. However, to date there is pesticides, so we can only talk about the use of mechanical methods of weed control", — said A. Alabushev.

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