The winter barley hybrid of Kompolt holds its own in competition with Europe

Murányi, István – Simon, Anna

The gradually deteriorating operating environment for plant cultivation, coupled with a lack of effective marketing and seed-corn trade and the pressure from foreign varieties, has resulted in a reduced significance for national hybridisation in the past 20 years. In fact, the hybridisation of a number of varieties has ceased altogether in Hungary. The hybridisation of winter barley taking place in Kompolt has successfully held its own under pressure from cultivators of foreign varieties. Besides the eminent fertility of this variety, it possesses an outstanding hardiness in winter, good stalk strength, reliable resistance to storage and an all-round excellent adaptability. Our 12 varieties of feed barley and two of brewing barley represent a complete range of cultivation choices. Two of our varieties head up the list of both the early and medium ripening categories in the 2004 national (OMMI) trials; five Kompolt varieties lead the field over an average period of three years. Kompolt winter barley varieties are increasingly popular among producers.

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