PROSPECTS FOR LTIVATION OF HORTICULTURAL CROPS IN THE SOUTH OF MIDLLE SIBERIA
In the southern zone of Siberia gardening conducted an assessment of the current gene pool of horticultural crops, defined the micro favorable for their cultivation. The distribution of grades is of a zonal character. Natural-climatic conditions of the area significantly affect the level of expression of the biological potential of the variety. In the steppe sub-zone cultivate high winter hardy local forms and varieties of horticultural crops. Prospectively, the cultivation of the plum varieties Drooping, Pyramid, etc. (level of yield of 10...15 kg/tree, with the average mass of the fruit of the 12...20 g); cherry steppe Altai swallow, Metelitsa, etc. (level of yield of 2.3...2,8 kg/Bush, with the average mass of the fruit of 2.8 3.2 g). In the forest-steppe sub-zone and in micro-zones, favorable for gardening, cultivation of high-quality varieties of hybrid origin. Biological potential of varieties are full enough. A crop of promising forms of apricot with regular fruit-bearing reaches 150 kg/tree, plum - 90 kg/tree, cherry steppe -17 kg/Bush. Prospectively, the cultivation of the plum - varieties of Peresvet, Chemal blue, etc.; cherry - Welcoming, Maximovskaya, etc., apricot - Anniversary of Khakassia, Memory Salamatova.