Lentil seeds red «Canadian»

Red lentil «Canadian»

An annual herbaceous plant of the legume family. Stem height 20-80 cm, prone to lodging or erect, blackish, tetrahedral, pubescent, branched. Lentil leaves are compound, with 2-8 pairs of leaflets, parotid, which end in a branched tendril, very rarely its rudiment. The root system is branched.

Lentil is a moisture-loving and cold-resistant plant. The growing season lasts from 70 to 120 days. The best soils for growing lentils are chernozems that do not tolerate saline, acidic and heavy soils. The plant is self-pollinating. Lentils are used as fodder and food crops. The grain contains - 35% protein, 2.6% oil, 61% starch, cereals, flour, etc. are produced from it.

Advantages:

• has high drought resistance and heat resistance + 60°С;
• it is characterized by resistance to abiotic stresses - it tolerates spring frosts well in the seedling stage, withstands temperatures down to -10 ° C, this makes it possible to sow lentils at the earliest possible time;
• has stable immunity to aschitosis;
• resistant to lodging due to a strong, powerful stem;
• belongs to the type - red lentils;
• has a high yield of cereals on professional cereals up to 92%, football 85%;
• the yield of Canadian lentils, the MAXIM variety, is up to 30 cents, from 1 ha;
• germination - 98%, germination energy - 96%;
• varietal purity - 99.99%, humidity - 12%.

High resistance to herbicides, which is a huge advantage for lentils, since it weakly competes with weeds, and there are no insurance herbicides that could be painlessly applied to ordinary lentils. Therefore, weeds are the main factor reducing the yield of lentils.