"Greenhouse" in the coming months will supply the market mainly tomatoes. The enterprise temporarily reduced the production of cucumber, defining for this culture only a small area - less than 2 hectares - in greenhouses on Prospekt Kosmonavtov. Svjazana such policy with that in the summer period tomatoes are more claimed in the market.
It is worth noting that the management of the economy even released a video, which shows the entire cycle of growing tomatoes - from the moment of shoot shoots to harvest.
The main industrial complex, located in the village of Sadovy, is now fully occupied with growing tomatoes. In July, in a block of 4 hectares, in which cucumbers grew from winter to early summer, they planted tomato seedlings. The remaining 8 hectares of the plant, where red fruits are harvested since April, have been announced "prolonged" until the end of the season.
"We focus on the market and our own economy. Demand for tomato in summer is higher than for cucumber. In addition, cucumber crops finish fruiting in September, and tomatoes can bear fruit for two more autumn months. Thus, the market receives a more popular product, and we have an additional profit of about 5-6%, "says Ilya Bondarev, General Director of UMMC-Agro..
Active supply of cucumbers to the market JSC "Teplichnoe" plans to resume in February. Meanwhile, in the second turn, plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, and several experimental varieties were planted in the farm. In particular, Japanese hybrids of pink tomatoes, which are brought to the Urals mainly from Uzbekistan.
Numerous experiments of the farm with varieties are connected with the construction of a new combine in the village of Sadov by 17.64 hectares, which will be launched this autumn and will allow to receive an additional 11 thousand. Tons of organic vegetables per year. Today, on the current greenhouse complex of 12 hectares annually receive 5.2 thousand. Tons of vegetables protected soil (tomatoes, cucumbers), which is 15% of the market share of selling their own vegetable products and green cultures of the Sverdlovsk region.