Potato training
Potato Seed Development project:
Climate Smart Potato Demonstration Centre
Potato farming consultant of Agrico Ukraine
Would you like to receive more information about Agrico Ukraine and scientific support for growing our varieties? Or do you have other questions about our business and/or activities?
Do not hesitate to contact us with your questions!
Victor RIZNYK
Potato cultivation training
- Preparation (crop rotation & soil sampling, weed killing & ploughing, fertiliser application & nutrients);
- Planting (furrows & ridges, row distances, planting distances, tuber spacing, certified seed potatoes, treatments);
- Growing (weed killing, top dressing, nematodes);
- Disease (recognising types of diseases, prevention, treatment, timing, planning, waste management);
- Harvesting (maturing period, harvesting, grading, sorting);
- Storing techniques (temperatures, humidity & ventilation; Energy & back-up systems).
Introduction video
Crop rotation and forecrop
Video 1. Preparation for planting: Crop rotation and forecrop
In this video, we will talk about crop rotation, predecessors in the field, and why it critically affects future potato yield results.
Video 2. Preparation for planting: Soil preparation
In this video, we will talk about different schemes for preparing soil for planting potatoes, depending on their type. We will discuss with the best practitioners of Ukraine about autumn and spring ridge cutting, the necessity or harm of plowing in potato fields, why deep loosening is needed, and what shape of ridge is best to choose.
Soil preparation
Preparation of seeds, conditions and methods of planting
Video 3. Planting: Preparation of seeds, conditions and methods
In this video, we will discuss how to properly warming up seed potatoes, how to find the "right" moment for planting, which fungicides works best for planting by planter, and which ones should be chosen for roller tables. What is the insidiousness of rhizoctoniosis and how specific knowledge helps in the fight against it?
Video 4. Planting: Experience of the farms
In this video, we will talk about optimal planting, how to correctly calculate the seed treatment for potato seeds, why planting early potatoes as early as possible and late potatoes as late as possible is not always the right approach. Planting potatoes practical experience of the most successful farms of Ukraine.
Planting: experience of the farms
Top dressing: Macro- and microelements for potatoes.
Video 5. Top dressing: Macro- and microelements for potatoes.
In this video, we will talk about the specifics of fertilizer application and the delicate balance of top dressing and their availability depending on application methods, weather, and soil acidity.
Video 6. Top dressing: Experience of the farms
In this video, we will talk about how to make a potato top dressing scheme for your farm? How do the choice of variety, the purpose of the potato, and access to irrigation affect fertilizer application schemes? You will find answers to these questions in this video, where experts from leading potato farms in Ukraine will talk in detail about their experience in the fields.
Top dressing: Experience of the farms
Herbicide protection of potatoes. How to control weeds in the field?
Video 7. Herbicide protection of potatoes. How to control weeds in the field?
In this video, we will talk about the most dangerous herbicides for potatoes and about the active ingredients registered on potatoes. We will consider what kind of substances is better to use on each of the weeds dominant in Ukraine: orach, ragweed, black nightshade, charlock (bitters), thistles, etc.
We will explain to you how to choose size and type of nozzles for herbicide treatments and what weather conditions can nullify all your efforts.
Video 8. Herbicide protection of potatoes. Experience of the farms.
In this video, we will talk about the herbicide protection of potatoes in the frame of experience of the farms.
Did you know that when choosing certain varieties and growing technologies, potatoes can compete very effectively with weeds? Which weeds can be indicators of low-yielding zones in the field and do not pose a threat to potatoes?
Truly effective schemes for herbicide protection of potatoes, developed by the most successful farms in Ukraine. The latest video has all of this plus a little bit more.
Herbicide protection of potatoes: Experience of the farms.
Fungicide protection of potatoes. Experience of the farms.
Video 9. Fungicide protection of potatoes. Experience of the farms.
In this video, we shared not only successful fungicide protection schemes for potatoes on our own farms, but also frankly talked about our mistakes and failures. Often, it is the latter that are a source of important knowledge that you can adopt to protect your own harvest.
Harvesting. Field preparation: destruction of tops
Harvesting. Field preparation and determining the harvesting time (maturing period).
Potato (field) equipment training
- Land preparation;
- Planters;
- Ridgers & re-ridgers;
- Sprayers;
- Harvesters;
- Sorters.
VIDEO: POTATO PLANTER
This video covers the answers to the questions:
- What operations can the Miedema Structural 4000 perform during one pass?
- Treating potato seeds in the planter;
- Will show you how this planter forms ridges during planting?
- How many potatoes do we plant in one pass?
Regenerative farming training
- Cover crops – soil health
- Rotary digging instead of ploughing as soil preparation
- Fertigation
- Drip irrigation
- No-till for grain/row-crops during the crop rotation
- Latest techniques
Business case training
- Net profit increase;
- Cost price reduction;
- Revenue growth;
- De-risking potato farming;
- Partnerships: partners who will support in training (Yara UA, Syngenta UA, Adama UA, Irrigator UA).