Total greenhouse areas in Russia have increased by 1.5 times since 2016, reaching approximately 3000 hectares.
Production in all other regions, including Lipetsk, Moscow, Volgograd Oblasts, Krasnodar and Stavropol Krais, which is one of the regions where greenhouse vegetables are produced, reached 1.37 million tons with an increase of 80% compared to the same periods of the last 5 years.
This increase in production is due to the preference of high-yielding varieties and the use of modern greenhouse technologies, among other factors. As a result of the modern greenhouse investments and the technologies used, the efficiency in greenhouse vegetable production increased by 14.3% compared to the previous season and reached 47.2 kg per m2.
From modern fifth generation greenhouses, yields of about 100 kg per m2 for tomatoes and 160 kg per m2 for cucumbers (cucumbers) were obtained.
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In addition to state supports in Russia, investment and short-term loans have contributed greatly to the development of greenhouse vegetable production.
In 2021, with the ongoing support of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture, it is estimated that the production in greenhouse production will exceed 1.4 million tons . At the beginning of 2021, in the period until April, vegetable production increased by 13.3% compared to the same period of the previous year and reached 319.000 tons . During this period, 106.000 tons of tomatoes and 206,000 tons of cucumber (cucumber) were produced under cover by Russian farmers.