A researcher measures the concentration of nutrient solution for growing tomatoes.
The Pyongyang Vegetable Science Institute under the Academy of Agricultural Science recently bred several vegetable varieties with high productivity and nutritive values.
A new Solanium lycopericium variety, or “lined tomato”, produces apricot-big fruits dangling from the same stem like a fat bunch of grapes.
“The lined potato bears 10 to 12 fruits in a bundle on average, 16 at maximum and it has 1.4 times higher content of lycopin than ordinary tomatoes. With an average per-hectare yield of about 30 tons, it can be raised in spring and autumn and as it is gathered in bunches, promotes work efficiency and is of high ornamental value,” said section chief Ma Yong Min.
The institute also acclimatized several tomato varieties, such as “coloured small tomato”, “green tomato” and “creased tomato”, all Solanium lycopericium varieties.
“Greenhouse hot pepper No. 1”, a new variety of Capsicum chinense jacq, is said to be over 150 000 SHU hot, which is seven to eight times higher than ordinary dried pepper varieties.
The researchers are now working on the projects to widely spread new good varieties of watermelon and melon of very high productivity in the greenhouse.
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