This news was shared by Director of the Russian research Institute of irrigated vegetable and melon growing, doctor of agricultural Sciences Mikhail Puchkov. According to him, Astrakhan farmers already have a little experience growing seedless watermelon, but only from imported seed.
In addition to watermelons, breeders UNIJOB now engaged in breeding new varieties of dwarf melon the size of an egg "Kinder surprise". The Institute also actively cooperates with farmers willing to grow watermelons of various shapes: they teach them the technology of growing these watermelons, go to the field, take samples. After that, the melon growers are issued a special sticker confirming that a safe and watermelons grown in the Astrakhan region from the seeds of domestic selection.
According to the forecast of the regional Ministry of agriculture, this year in the region will be collected at least 240 thousand tons of watermelons, which corresponds to the last year level. Today, the Astrakhan watermelons are sold all over Russia and in the Baltic countries and Belarus.
Translated by service "Yandex.Translation"