Barley variety Nadia is a mid-season cereal variety recommended for cultivation in various regions of Russia, including the Northwestern, Central, Volga-Vyatka, and Middle Volga regions. Registered in 1998, this variety has a vegetation period of 71 to 89 days, maturing slightly earlier or later than some other varieties, such as Ataman, Vladimir, and Raushan. Nadia belongs to the nutans group, characterized by a short plant with an intermediate bush type and lodging resistance, ensuring stable yields under various weather conditions.
The barley grain is large and very large, with an unpubescent central groove and a covering lodicule. The ear is pyramidal, of medium density, with long, serrated awns and medium intensity anthocyanic coloring. The plant has a strong waxy coating on the sheaths of lower leaves and medium anthocyanic coloring on the flag leaf auricles. The variety shows moderate resistance to root rots and drought tolerance comparable to standard varieties such as Belgorodskiy 100 and Nur.
Nadia is widely used as a brewing barley due to its high yield performance, reaching 39.5 centners per hectare in the Central region, which is 5.5 centners per hectare higher than the average standard. In the Volga-Vyatka region, the yield is approximately 39.3 centners per hectare. The variety is recommended for cultivation in various regions and republics, including Kaluga, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tula, Nizhny Novgorod, Sverdlovsk regions, Perm Krai, and Udmurt Republic. The price of Nadia barley varies depending on the delivery location and ranges from 8,616 to 9,900 hryvnia excluding VAT.
