The color of the table in five years. Land beans
In august, you can test the seed
Have you seen pink, red, purple potatoes? In recent days, journalists have seen these coloured potatoes in experimental fields at the agricultural college of the city of kimhua. According to experts at the agricultural institute, these coloured potatoes are not only colourful, but also rich in vasectomy and have higher nutritional value. Experts at the agricultural college predict that these coloured potatoes will have to go to the table in five years' time. “but if citizens are interested, we can provide a small amount of seed to test it for the august planting season.” the deputy director of the municipal agricultural college, cheng lin, said。
Each potato core has a different color
Yellow core potatoes are the best
When journalists saw the potatoes at the agricultural institute, they found that their skins were broadly yellow, red and purple. Their surfaces are not very smooth, they're more elliptical. Head sizes vary, bigger than normal potatoes, smaller than grapes。
On the spot, the staff of the agricultural college randomly selected several potatoes with the same skin colour to be compared. Journalists found that even the potatoes with the same skin color, the inner core color is different. For example, when both skins are cut open to purple potatoes, one core is purple, the other is yellow, the other one is yellow, which contains a round of pink purple, and can see a beautiful flower pattern。
According to cheng lin yun, these potatoes are also very different in their tastes, and yellow-coloured potatoes are delicious, very soft, some sweet, some sweet, some sweet potatoes. And yellow-skinned potatoes eat a little bit of them, the best they taste. "the purple and red potatoes taste worse than the yellow ones, and they're still improving." cheng lin said。
For non-modified fruit and vegetables
Cultivation is like mixed rice
So, is this beautiful colored potato genetically modified
It is known that the municipal agricultural school began the production of coloured potatoes in 2012. According to cheng lin yuen, seed resources for coloured potatoes are imported from the outside and selected, mostly with high yield, high quality, early maturity and disease-resistant characteristics. Like the mixed rice of yuan long, it has undergone numerous hybrid trials and has been continuously screened, refined and perfected in millions of test subjects。
Coloured potatoes can be sowed in the spring and autumn, usually in mid-january and in june, and in the autumn in late august and mid-november. “choose potatoes do not require a high temperature and climate so that they can grow in the open, without any facilities.” cheng lin said。
This year, 20 acres of coloured potatoes were planted in the municipal agricultural school. “as a rule, the acreage of yellow potatoes is 5,000 pounds and that of purple potatoes 3,000 pounds.” cheng lin said that the first season of coloured potatoes had already yielded good harvests and that the selection of seeds had begun on 10 may, and it was expected that they would be collected in those two days。
It'll be at the table in five years
Citizens can go near the water tower and grow first
Colored potatoes are not only colourful but also nutritionally valuable。
Colored potatoes are known to have a high level of licorin, while regular potatoes are non-facile. A review of the information by journalists found that flowering has the effect of increasing human immunity and slowing ageing。
Since there are so many advantages, can we expand this area
Cheng lin yun said not yet. Because the promotion of each new species requires repeated testing. Cheng lin said that there were also purple potatoes sold on the market, most of which were imported from outside by growers, such as black kong and black beauty, but in general there were few people。
“as a new breed, multiple matching tests are required in terms of taste, yield, planting time, pests and pests, market acceptance, etc., in order to be able to finalize the extension of cultivation.” cheng lin said that, if everything went well, after five years, citizens would be able to taste the colored meal on the table。
However, cheng lin-yun also indicated that if citizens were interested in the coloured potatoes, they would be able to test them with a small amount of seed at the municipal agricultural school during the potato planting season in august。
