The international research conference timed to the 85th anniversary of the Vegetable Farming Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus will be held in Minsk on 19-21 July. Taking part in the forum will be scientists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and Moldova, BelTA learned from Dr. Alexander Autko, director of the institute.

The participants of the conference will get familiar with the innovation development of the Belarusian vegetable farming, new heavy-productive varieties production. They will discuss the up-to-date high technologies to produce vegetables, mechanical means for outdoor and protected area vegetable farming. The foreign guests will visit experimental plantations of the institute, research labs. After this, they will attend a plenary session to discuss the economic problems of the innovation development of vegetable farming in the CIS countries.

According to Alexander Autko, as of 2010, the Belarus State Register has included 86 vegetables varieties of hybrids selected by the Potato Growing and Horticulture Research Center of the Belarus National Academy of Sciences. Annually the center produces 2300 kg of original seeds and more than 40 tonnes of duplicate seeds and planting stock.

The Vegetable Farming Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus developed 23 resources-energy-saving and environmentally benign technologies to plant vegetables and savoury herbs.

In 2010, the institute set up a new agrochemical laboratory. Its equipment allows researchers to assess the productive capacity of soils, analyze the biochemical performances of the vegetables planted in outdoor areas.

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