Research on Crops
  • Year: 2020
  • Volume: 21
  • Issue: 3

Impact of various cultivation technologies on productivity of potato (Solanum tuberosum) in central non-Cenozoic zone of Russia

  • Author:
  • Aleksei Belenkov1, Aleksandr Peliy2*, Anna Vasyukova3, Valeriy Burlutskiy4, Ekaterina Borodina5, Ameth Diop2, Aleksandr Moskin3
  • Total Page Count: 8
  • Page Number: 512 to 519

1Department of Agriculture and Experimental Methods of the RSAU-MTAA127550, Moscow, Russia

2Department of Agrobiotechnology, Institute of Agriculture, RUDN University, 117198, Moscow, Russia.

3Department of production technology and organization of public catering and commodity science, Moscow State University of Technology and Management, 109004, Moscow, Russia.

4Kaluga Research Institute of Agriculture, 249142, Kaluga region, Russia.

5Department of Plant Growing and Meadow Ecosystems, RSAU - MTAA, 127550, Moscow, Russia.

*(e-mail : kaluga-peliy@yandex.ru)

Online published on 17 October, 2020.

Abstract

In recent years, a significant advancement in the cultivation technologies needs to be established to improvise the commercial quality and strengthening the competitiveness among the domestic potato producers in Russia. This ten-year (2010 to 2019) trial was conducted at Moscow region to study the effect of various cultivation technologies on potato productivity, one of the main crops of the central non-chernozem region. Two factor experimental trial was laid with factor A - cultivation technology (precise and traditional) and factor B-methods of tillage (dump and minimum) performed using an autopilot based on the GPS system, with real-time signal correction. It was revealed that the efficiency of using autopilot and parallel driving systems significantly enhances potato productivity by an average of 30% to a tune of 26.2 t/ha under Precise Cultivation Technology system. Hence, in conducting field trial, it is needed to focus on the implementation of new and progressive technologies, which undoubtedly include precise (coordinate) agriculture. Precision farming has became as a revolutionary technology, which transforms farming related data into useful information for cropping decision-making. Overall, our research indicates that precision farming can ameliorate input usage efficiency, and enhance net income in potato cultivation.

Keywords

Autopiloting GPS system, Butt joints, Potato, Precision agriculture, Ridge formation