Bryansk potato growers continue their heroic struggle for a new giant harvest of “second bread”. Their fighting mood was greatly spoiled by the abnormally rainy weather in September. And before the deprivation of the Bryansk region of the status of the “Potato capital” of Russia, God forbid, it will not be far.
Potato growing is a strategic and important, as you know, direction of agriculture in the Bryansk region. Personally, the governor Alexander Bogomaz looks after him, they say: for nothing that he once founded, together with his wife Olga, the largest potato farming holding today. He even once teased Father Lukashenko about this — we, they say, have overtaken your entire beautiful Belarus by the forces of the region alone in terms of the volume of potatoes grown. Well, this is when it’s about quantity and money, and not about taste and friability.
Meanwhile, on the eve of the Department of Agriculture of the Bryansk region reported disturbing news: “Due to the abnormally rainy weather for the month of September this year, the timing of potato harvesting has shifted significantly.”
Personally, we in the editorial office of the Bryansk Grumbler immediately became worried. Although somehow they have never seen Bryansk potatoes produced on an industrial scale in local supermarkets (weekend fairs do not count). More and more Moscow, Tatarstan and even Egyptian were found on the store shelves of the Bryansk region. I’m just not lucky, probably.
We do not know whether it is a lot or a little — the Agricultural Department of the Bryansk region does not specify, but on October 18, “about 20 thousand hectares” of potato plantings were removed in the region. But much more Bryansk potatoes have been “dug up”, the agency reports — as much as 720 thousand tons.
Potato growers of Dyatkovsky and Krasnogorsk districts fully coped with the task, and in Karachevsky, Rognedinsky, Zlynkovsky, Klimovsky and Novozybkovsky districts, “potato harvesting is close to completion.” Which is encouraging, of course. There will certainly be a reason to prick the Belarusian president again. If the potato fields are not completely flooded in October…
“This year, the largest areas under the “second bread” are located in Starodubsky, Unechsky and Pogarsky districts,” the regional Department of Agriculture said in a statement.
Evil tongues are chattering, by the way, that it is in the listed municipal districts of the Bryansk region that the Bogomaz family may have the most potato farms. But we don’t believe the talkers, of course: it just so happened.
By the way, according to official information, the Bryansk region ranks 1st in Russia in terms of industrial potato production. “Every 8th kilogram of Russian potatoes is produced on Bryansk land,” the agricultural department reports.
So no one will forgive the October downpour if we suddenly start collecting only every 9th or, God forbid, every 10th (we are silent about the 11th in general) kilogram of Russian potatoes.
But we are sure, remembering the words from a long-standing TV commercial: “Everything will work out for us!”. We already know how to dig potatoes. We love this business.
Photo: “Bryansk grumbler”, G. Selebin, A. Bogomaz’s social networks, a frame from the cartoon “New Prostokvashino”
A source: https://avchernov.ru
