The Institute of Fruit Growing offers consumers the garden strawberry variety Dachnitsa, winter-hardy, productive, under a manufacturing agreement and/or services for modification and adaptation to local conditions of the technology for growing garden strawberries in household plots under an outsourcing agreement, and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Garden strawberry is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Rosaceae family (rose-flowered), genus Fragaria L.

Origin: Venta x Tenira

The variety is winter-hardy, productive (8-10 t/ha).

The bush is medium-sized, medium-spreading, with few leaves.

Biological features: high ability to form runners. Relatively resistant to white and brown leaf spots, moderately resistant to gray mold.

The berries are dark red, medium (average weight - 9.1 g), shiny, flat-round, bluntly truncated-conical, with a depression at the top, the achenes are yellow, slightly immersed in the pulp. The pulp is red, tender, juicy, aromatic. The taste is sweet.

The variety is preferable for carpet cultivation. The berries are highly marketable. Transportability is good. Suitable as a dessert and for technical processing.

More information about the technology of growing garden strawberries is available on the Institute's website here.

Brief descriptions of garden strawberry varieties can be found here.

The description of the technology may contain, at the Customer’s request, recommendations for growing garden strawberries in local conditions.

In 2009, it was included in the State Register of Varieties and Tree and Shrub Species of the Republic of Belarus for home garden cultivation.

The Institute of Fruit Growing of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the first and currently the leading specialized organization in the field of fruit growing in the Republic of Belarus

The main areas of scientific and scientific-innovative activities of the Institute:
- selection and introduction of fruit, berry, nut crops, grapes and their rootstocks;
- creation of a bank of genetic resources of fruit, berry, nut crops and grapes for the purpose of practical use in selection, production and for interstate exchange or collection;
- development and improvement of technologies for the production, storage and processing of fruits and berries;
- diagnostics of viral, virus-like and bacterial pathogens and creation of basic collections of virus-free plants;
- development and improvement of technologies and production of healthy planting material;
- selection improvement of breeding and productive qualities of bees and improvement of technologies for their maintenance and use;
- development of republican standards for planting material, raw materials of fruit and berry crops and products of their processing;
- development of scientific and economic forecasts and comprehensive programs for the development of fruit growing and beekeeping in the Republic of Belarus;
- design and planting of gardens and berry fields;
- implementation of patent-licensing and inventive work, wide dissemination of scientific research results through information, advertising and publishing activities.

The Institute of Fruit Growing has concluded more than 80 agreements on scientific cooperation with fruit growing institutions from 23 countries.

In addition to broad international cooperation, the Institute actively interacts with research institutions of the Republic. In accordance with the order of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus dated 09.04.2007 No. 16, agreements on scientific support in the field of fruit growing were concluded between the Institute of Fruit Growing and the RUE "Grodno Zonal Institute of Plant Growing of the NAS of Belarus", RUE "Brest OSKhOS of the NAS of Belarus", RUE "Gomel OSKhOS of the NAS of Belarus".

Consumers interested in purchasing the Dachnitsa garden strawberry variety, winter-hardy, productive, under a production agreement and/or services for modification and adaptation to local conditions of the technology for growing garden strawberries in home gardens under an outsourcing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing the Dachnitsa garden strawberry variety, winter-hardy, productive, and/or services for modification and adaptation to local conditions of the technology for growing garden strawberries in home gardens under a distribution services agreement.