Buckwheat KORA

Fagopyrum esculentum Moench.

An early/medium early buckwheat with good resistance to spring frosts and drought during vegetation

  • Relatively resistant to seed scattering
  • 1000 seed weight – 25-30 g
  • Hull content – 18-24 %
  • Protein content – 11.7 %
  • Starch content – 57. 2 % 
  • Hectoliter weight – 56.3 kg/hl
  • Suitable for poorer 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 – 85-95 days
  • Relatively early
  • Resistant to spring frosts and droughts during flowering
  • Resistant to diseases
  • Plant height – 100-120 cm
  • Buds and flowers – pink
  • Foliage – medium-sized
  • Fruit – a blackish wingless nut
  • Partially resistant to grain shedding
  • 1000 seeds weight – 25-30 g
  • Hull content – 18-24 %
  • Grows better than the variety 'PANDA' in poorer soils

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

  • Average grain yield (at 14 % moisture content) – 3.67 t/ha
  • Vegetation period – 87 days (from seed germination to full maturity)
  • Plant height – 127,5 cm
  • Resistance to lodging – 8 points out of 9 (when 9 points – a very resistant variety)
  • Weight of 1000 grains – 28 (25-30) g
  • Protein content DM – 11.9 %
  • Starch content DM – 52.7 %
  • Hull content – 22,9 (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