Effect of pre-sowing treatment with alternating magnetic fields and increased doses of organic fertilizers on potato yield

In recent years, attention has increasingly been paid to the search for new technologies that increase the productivity of agricultural plants. From this point of view, technologies for the use of pulsed electromagnetic fields in the radio wave range are of particular interest. The studies were carried out in experimental plots of the Institute of Agrobiotechnologies, Komi Science Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in accordance with standard methods. Before planting, potato tubers of different varieties were subjected to electromagnetic radiation by the TOR device in the 15/5 mode (15 minutes of action, 5 minutes of break, three times a day before planting) with an individual spectrum of action. We observed an increase in the shooting rate of potato and a rise in yield after electromagnetic treatment. The introduction of increased doses of organic fertilisers significantly increased the yield and reduced the effect of pre-sowing electromagnetic irradiation but did not affect the increase in number of tubers per potato bush observed in the treated variants of the Pechorsky variety.