Agrokombinat "Zhdanovichi" (Minsk region) expects this year to collect a record harvest of fruits and berries, the chief of department of horticulture farm's Alexander Boldisov.
According to him, if before harvest did not reach 1 thousand. Tons, this year can be collected about two thousand. Tons of fruits and berries.
Currently, there is cleaning the fruit of early varieties. Currently removed about 40 tons of apples and pears 38 tons. The main focus agrokombinat makes for winter and late winter varieties, which account for about 70%. In this case, most of them (about 60%) - this sort of domestic breeding.
Now the area is 412 hectares of gardens. As noted by Alexander Boldisov, is one of the largest gardens in the area. Most of it - about 280 ha of fruit crops (mainly apples and pears), the remaining area reserved for the berry and innovative culture. Such, for example, as chokeberry (aronia, or).
"We will gradually be released from stone fruit, strawberry, and focus on the gardens of intensive type and the types of berries, which can be removed by the mechanized method (currant, aronia, etc..), - Said the head of the shop. - We plan to increase the area for planting raspberries" .
Agrokombinat "Zhdanovichi" - a highly diversified agricultural enterprise, the largest supplier of vegetables for the inhabitants of the capital. One of the main activities is the crop. Breeding modern garden fruit and berry crops in the agricultural complex began in 2007.