POTATO CULTIVATION METHOD Russian patent published in 2006 - IPC A01G1/00 

FIELD: agriculture, in particular, potato cultivation process.

SUBSTANCE: method involves locating potato in precursor rotation; shelling stubble; applying organic and mineral fertilizers; performing spring harrowing or cultivation; providing planting in ridges; performing interrow tillage and weed control; providing preharvest removal of helm; harvesting tubers; using leguminous-cereal crop mixture, clover, Lucerne, winter cereals or rapes as precursors; sowing annual ryegrass or white mustard onto said precursors after stubble shelling; grinding green mass of ryegrass or white mustard by means of disk shellers and plowing said ground green mass into fall-plowed field; locally introducing organic fertilizers in the form of granulated biohumus treated with film-former into ridges for seed tubers; locally introducing mineral combined fertilizers with microelements on sides and below seed tubers which are preliminarily treated with preparations such as planarize in mixture with extrasol; after planting, providing interrow tillage by means of rotavator-type cultivator-hiller before potato helm forms coverage.

EFFECT: improved consumer properties of potato owing to utilization of ecologically safe processes and weed, disease and pest controlling means enabling preventing of environmental medium and potato yield from contamination with toxic substances.

7 cl, 2 ex