The analysis of potato growing in the Amur region for the entire historical period is carried out. Until the middle of the twentieth century, the region was the center and the main producer of potatoes in the Far East. Three cycles of industry development, characterized by periods of recovery and crisis, and by the peculiarities of the institutional structure of the organization of production in various forms of management have been identified. The reason for the current systemic crisis of the industry in countries with highly efficient potato growing is shown. The peculiarities of the crisis in the Amur Region are that the gross harvest of tubers is characterized by a fall to the level of a hundred years ago (144 thousand tons), while the price and import of potatoes are growing. The crisis is a motivation for significant transformations in potato growing: the formation of a new organizational and technological structure; modernization and restructuring of production; revival of seed production, expansion of the assortment of varieties for table and technical purposes; change in the logistics of planting; creation of an innovative complex "Potato Holding". "Potato Holding" is a research and production system that connects all the links: seed production, production, storage, processing, bringing to the consumer a diverse range of potato products. The innovative transformation of the industry will make it possible to switch to full self-sufficiency of the Far Eastern market with a variety of tuber crops, processed products with new consumer properties.

Shchegorets Olga V.

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