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Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.

An early/medium early buckwheat with good resistance to diseases, spring frosts and drought during flowering

  • Stem abundant in foliage
  • Relatively resistant to seed scattering
  • 1000 seed weight – 25-32 g
  • Hull content – 18-24 %
  • Protein content – 11.9 %
  • Starch content – 57. 2 %  
  • Hectoliter weight – 57.0 kg/hl
  • Also, could be grown at heavier soils
  • Grows rapidly, suppresses weeds
  • Buckwheat roots dissolve hardly available phosphorus compounds, making them available to the following plants
  • Seed yield – 1.5-2.3 t/ha
  • Vegetation period – 90-105 days
  • Early/mid-early
  • Resistant to spring frosts and droughts during flowering
  • Resistant to diseases
  • Plant height – 100-115 cm
  • Abundant rich green foliage
  • Fruit – a blackish wingless nut
  • Partial resistance to grain scattering is higher than that of 'KORA' variety
  • 1000 seeds weight – 25-32 g
  • Hull content – 17-22 %
  • 'PANDA' is better suited to heavier soils

*Based on variety testing by breeders Małopolska Hodowla Roślin, Poland

 

  • Average grain yield (at 14 % moisture content) – 3.69 t/ha
  • Vegetation period – 87 days (from seed germination to full maturity)
  • Plant height – 122 cm
  • Resistance to lodging – 7.5 points out of 9 (when 9 points – a very resistant variety)
  • Weight of 1000 grains – 27.5 g
  • Protein content DM – 11.9 %
  • Starch content DM – 57.2 %
  • Hull content – 22.4 (18-24) %

*Variety description of buckwheat varieties in the National List of Plant Varieties, 2016.

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam


Recommended sowing rate: 300-350 plants/m², or 80-100 kg/ha

Recommended sowing rate for green manure:70-90 kg/ha