Scientific and Practical Centre for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing offers consumers potato variety Mastak under a manufacturing agreement and/or a non-exclusive license agreement for the right to use plant varieties under patents and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Scope - Agriculture of the Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation.

The objective of developing the Mastak variety is to ensure food security of the Republic of Belarus, production of seed potatoes in the required quantity for the needs of the republic, as well as food and technical potatoes for fresh consumption and industrial processing.

The information is posted in the publication "Album of promising developments of organizations of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for the real sector of the economy" - Minsk: Belaruskaya Navuka, 2023, p. 491. (in Russian)

The Mastak potato variety surpasses the control Manifest variety in terms of harvest accumulation. It meets world standards.

Growing this potato variety allows you to make a profit of 700–1000 rubles/ha.

It is environmentally safe, and does not exceed permissible levels of nitrate and radionuclide accumulation.

Developer: Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Potato and Fruit and Vegetable Growing”.

The Republican Unitary Enterprise "Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Potato, Fruit and Vegetable Growing" is a dynamically developing state scientific selection and seed-growing enterprise and is the leading organization in the Republic of Belarus in the field of potato and fruit and vegetable growing.

The scientific work of the Center is comprehensive. The co-executors of the topic are the Institute of Plant Protection, the Grodno Zonal Institute of Plant Growing, regional agricultural experimental stations, the Institute of Genetics and Cytology, the Institute of Biophysics and Cell Engineering of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Food, the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy and a number of other institutions, which allows us to deepen the theoretical focus of the research, the depth of elaboration of the experimental material, the reliability of conclusions and recommendations for the conditions of various regions of the Republic of Belarus. International cooperation covers many countries, including Russia, Kazakhstan, Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Germany, China, etc.

Main areas of scientific activity:
1. Creation of fundamentally new varieties and hybrids of potatoes with a yield of 50.0-80.0 t/ha, fruit crops - 25.0-30.0 t/ha, berry crops - 10.0-12.0 t/ha and vegetable crops - 40.0–100.0 t/ha.
2. Development of targeted environmentally friendly resource-saving technologies for the production of potatoes, fruit and vegetable crops.
3. Ensuring variety change and variety renewal through accelerated production of original seed and planting material.
4. Scientific support for the potato and fruit and vegetable growing industries to improve their economic efficiency, competitiveness and fully meet the needs of the Republic of Belarus in high-quality potato, fruit and vegetable products.

Consumers interested in purchasing the Mastak potato variety under a manufacturing agreement and/or a non-exclusive license agreement for the right to use plant varieties under patents.

Partners interested in developing the Mastak potato variety under a distribution services agreement.