The head of the Tambov region invited to help gardeners in collecting apples

On September 26, the Governor of the Tambov region Evgeny Pervyshov, together with his colleagues, visited the gardens of the Oak farm in the Petrovsky district, where he took part in the harvest of apples.

Tambov region is considered the leading horticultural center of Russia, continuing the traditions of Ivan Michurin. Today, there are about 8 thousand hectares of gardens in the region, 75% of which are intensive. More than 60 enterprises and peasant farms are engaged in gardening. One of the flagships of the industry is Oak, where high-yielding dwarf, semi-dwarf and super-dwarf trees are grown - in total more than forty varieties of eight breedings.

Evgeny Pervyshov has already visited this farm on a working visit in early September. Then he got acquainted with the infrastructure of the enterprise, including fruit storage facilities, and assessed the progress of harvesting.

“This year’s harvest is really good, so help will be welcome. Last year we already came to Michurinsky district for such a Saturday. I invite everyone to help our gardeners this season, the head of the region wrote in his social networks.

In the horticultural farms of the region are now actively working on the collection of apples. Gross harvest today exceeded 6 thousand tons, of which more than 2 thousand tons were collected in Oak. In total, this year the harvest is planned to be removed from more than 2 thousand hectares of gardens.