Economic efficiency of growing domestic hybrids of sweet peppers in the steppe zone conditions

One of the main factors for increasing the efficiency of production of sweet peppers is the introduction of new high-yielding varieties and hybrids adapted to the growing conditions in order to fully realize their potential productivity. Every year, the leading breeding institutions of the country and foreign companies supply a large number of new hybrids to the market for subsequent introduction into production of the most productive ones. The main criterion for evaluating the effectiveness of varieties and hybrids is the annual economic effect of their introduction into production. The purpose of our research was to test domestic heterotic pepper hybrids suitable for production in industrial volumes, clarify the varietal cultivation technology for the steppe zone, and establish the economic efficiency of their cultivation. The work shows the economic efficiency of growing domestic hybrids of sweet pepper F₁Victor, F₁Medok F₁Lekar, F₁Aleksiy, F₁Erivan using advanced cultivation technology. The article shows that domestic hybrids with a planting period of March 15-20 and plant density of 72 thousand/ha provided a yield of 73-78 t/ha, which was 12-20% higher than the F₁Vedran standard. The calculations showed that the profitability of production is determined by the productivity of a particular hybrid. Among the studied samples, the most profitable (more than 30%) are F₁Lekar, F₁Aleksiy, which had a yield of 77-78 t/ha. High profitability was observed in F₁Victor (28.9%) and F₁Erivan (27.2%) hybrids, profitability is slightly lower in F₁Medok (23.8%). In general, domestic hybrids have a 2.3-3.1 times higher profitability compared to the standard, which indicates the high efficiency of their cultivation in industrial production.