Great tuber: Hilcona starts potato season

New organic variety being tested

05-Jun-2023 - Liechtenstein

These weeks, everything at Hilcona Agrar revolves around the popular potato. Worldwide, the nutrient-rich tuber is one of the most important staple foods. Furrow by furrow, the potatoes are planted in the ground. The location, plenty of sun, moderate rainfall. All this is again to ensure the best Hilcona potato quality.

Round and healthy: the potato has it all

From classic yellow, to red, to blue and purple. From firm to floury. The high-quality table potatoes contain many vitamins, valuable minerals, and vegetable protein. What is new is that Hilcona Agrar is using the Acoustic variety in organic cultivation as a trial variety for the 2023 harvest. The variety has a high resistance to late blight. As predominantly waxy potatoes, they are not very susceptible to disease and have low to medium soil and moisture requirements.

Great know-how and many challenges

"Our planting conditions for potatoes are extremely difficult this year. The soils, which do not dry, could hardly be worked. Only this week we can finish planting the potatoes, which in a normal year should be done at the beginning of May each year. Even the potatoes that have already been planted have been slow to grow. In addition, there are already first reports of late blight from the Rhine Valley. Thus, there should also be delays in the harvest. However, we remain confident that we will be able to master the challenges that lie ahead. We have many years of know-how, a powerful machine park and employees who go the extra mile every day," emphasized Andreas Messerli, head of Hilcona Agrar.

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