1. Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences POTATO RESEARCH INSTITUTE Dr BORIS V. ANISIMOV Deputy Director for Research Lorcha st. 23, Kraskovo, 140051 Moskow Region, Russia Tel. +7 495 5571018, Fax. +7 495 5571011 E-mail: coordinazia@mail.rucoordinazia@mail.ru 1

2. Region Planted area (1000 ha) Production (1000 tons) Russia, total 219331134 Central region 6468629 North western region 1021223 Southern region 2362695 Privolgskij region 5879129 Ural region 1552760 Siberian region 3735415 Far-Eastern region 961282 The potato production in significant Russian regions in 2009. 2

3. 1990 2009 Figure 1. The share of different categories in potato production (%). 3

4. Potato yield in Russia in 2009. Region All producers (t/ha) (t/ha) Agricultural enterprises (t/ha) Russia, total (in average) 14.319.8 Central region 13.521.2 North western region 12.0 18.3 Southern region 11.919.6 Privolgskij region 15.620.9 Ural region 17.819.6 Siberian region 14.616.0 Far-Eastern region 13.614.0 4

5. Product2005200620072008 Total processed potato 22.46167.58293.221101.900 products including: fried potato 17.24757.35073.75985.100 quick-frozen potato 3.3146.6989.66310.800 dried potato 1.1841.9322.0143.500 mashed potato 6262.4828.4234.900 Processed potato volume in Russia 2005-2008 (1000 tons). 5

6. The potato production in significant Russian regions in 2009-2010 Округа All producers, (1000 tons) Agricultural enterprises, (1000 tons) 2009 г2010 г 2010 +/- to 2009г 2009 г2010 г. 2010 +/- to 2009г Russia, total (in average) 3113421129- 1000540662209- 1857 Central region 86295175- 34541469737- 732 North western region 12241257+ 33196 0 Southern region 14641354- 110153143- 10 North North -Kavkaz 12311182- 49109104- 5 Privolgskij region 91293502- 56271387396- 991 Ural region 27601896- 864385259- 126 Siberian region 54155477+ 62272283+ 11 Far-Eastern region 12821287+ 594 0 6

7. Potato yield in Russia in 2009-2010 Округа All producers (t/ha) Agricultural enterprises (t/ha) 2009 г2010 г 2010г +/- to 2009г 2009 г2010 г. 2010г +/- to 2009г Russia, total (in average) 14,2710,02- 4,2719,4813,58- 5,90 Central region 13,488,34- 5,1422,7214,12- 8,60 North western region 12,0312,46+ 0,4316,9317,15+ 0,22 Southern region 10,199,48- 0,7114,9814,40- 0,58 North North -Kavkaz 13,5612,74- 0,8217,7412,42- 5,32 Privolgskij region 15,606,57- 9,0318,8610,33- 8,53 Ural region 17,7912,16- 5,6321,3214,33- 6,94 Siberian region 14,5714,84+ 0,2715,4116,10+ 0,69 Far-Eastern region 13,6413,62- 0,0213,7813,31- 0,47 7

8. International cooperation development ● breeding of new potato varieties which are adopted to the local condition, resistant to diseases, best use of environmental and technological resources; ● production of virus free material and original seed potato; ● improvement of quality control methods and certification system; ● improvement of potato technology and crop agronomy (tillage seed bed preparation, fertilization, planting, crop maintaining, harvesting); ● improvement the storage technology; ● development and promotion of potato processing; ● improvement of potato management; ● training for potato growers. 8

9. 9 FIELD DEMONSTRATION TRIALS OF POTATO CULTIVARS IN RUSSIA VNIIKH, Korenevo, 2009

10. Working programme IN RUSSIA for FIELD DEMONSTRATION TRIALS OF SEED POTATO CULTIVARS VNIIKH, Korenevo, 2011 10

11. Number of samples in 2011: 150 samples  Remove the samples from the bags and transfer the tubers to storage trays on the day of the receipt.  Take at random 200 tubers from each sample to be tested for the presence of Potato ring rot and Potato brown rot. The remaining tubers are intended for field trial.  Damaged tubers and those affected by wet rot or dry rot should be removed.  Samples should be stored at 2° to 4° C and relative humidity of 85% to 90%. Tubers to be pre-heated 3 weeks before planting to 7° C for 9 days followed by 12 days at 15° C.  During the storage period the tubers should be inspected at least twice and damaged tubers and those affected by wet rot or dry rot removed.  Prior to planting damaged tubers and those affected by wet rot or dry rot should by removed. 11 The technical aspects of comparative potato field trials

12. Number of samples: 150  Replication: One plot for each sample.  Number of rows per plot: 4  Distance between the rows: 0.75 m.  Distance between plants in rows: 30cm  Length of row: 15 m.  Number of tubers per plot: 200.  Method of planting: By hand  Trial design: samples of the same variety to be grouped together with Basic seed samples preceding Certified seed samples. Groups to be arranged in alphabetical order and in order of maturity. 1212 Field trial in 2011

13. Seed Potato Classification in Russia * All initial material and Original Seed are testing by ELISA - test Bank of Healthy Potato varieties BHVP Inv the field Initial Material * In vitro cultures Micropropagationmicro-minitubers SE – Super Elite E - Elite 1 reproduction 2 reproduction Original Seed * Basic Seed Reproductive Seed (Relatively free from diseases) 1-st field generation SSE – Super-Super Elite 13

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