Agriculture: 659 thousand acres of brown mold in potatoes

Agriculture: 659 thousand acres of brown mold in potatoes

The quantity of table potatoes exported to Arab nations and other nations up until the end of last October was disclosed by Dr. Naglaa Baliphl, director of the inventory and brown mould project in potatoes.

“Naglaa Balbab,” in press releases today, Tuesday, said that an official report was reviewed through the project laboratories and that it showed that the amounts of potatoes prepared for export amounted to about 967 thousand and 731 tonnes. It also noted that the overall total of the export season 2021–2022 witnessed a mutation other than Prepare for Egypt in looking at the table potatoes intended for export to various countries of the world.

She emphasised that about 200 thousand tonnes of local fracture potatoes were checked, totaling a quantity of roughly 3212 tonnes with reference to the vessels of such crops from mid-June to the end of October.

The establishment of 56 devices with an area of 5164 acres, inside the vacant areas, to become the overall total of the areas that are free of mould of about 659 thousand acres, as well as conducting maintenance of 7 pepperate with an area of 745 acres, to become the overall total of what was maintained 3472 acres, were also mentioned. She also mentioned that during this month, 17 samples from imported potatoes were examined, with a total amount of about 9 tonnes.

She stressed that the work of the Monitoring and Follow-up Unit is being followed up daily to implement the establishment and maintenance of the empty areas, the shipping of the seeds for winter loop cultivation, and the adoption of the winter loop plantations for the upcoming season 2022/2023.

She noted that work forms are reviewed on tablets (tablets) and entered into a database along with data entry for (1) refrigerator and designated for saving the adopted seeds for agriculture inside the regions empty and adding them to the geographical database so that the number of refrigerators in the database becomes more accurate (106 refrigerators).

She explained that in order to establish the new areas for adoption within the regions free of brown mould and drawing inside Geographical database, 20 satellite photos with an area of 200 thousand square kilometres were loaded during the month of October. She also mentioned that the shipping processes used to grow the winter loop for the new season 2022/2023 are also followed up in the empty areas.

He noted that various analyses are being conducted using remote sensing technology for all the bents intended for winter loop plantations (export loop) for the new export season 2022–2023, as well as monitoring the winter loop crops for the new season and entering their data in the geographical database of vacant areas equivalent to (20 frauds, 173 A device) with an area of (12200 acres) until 10/30/2022 and confirming the date of agriculture for the various pebbles.

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659 thousand acres of potato brown mould in agriculture

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