The Federal Scientific Center:
– develops projects on the sustainable land use, reclamation of fallow lands, and soil improvement;
– conducts field tests and demonstration trials of pesticides and agrochemicals;
– provides guidelines for the enhancement and preservation of soil fertility, including the effective management of fertilizers and chemical soil conditioners;
– performs the pre-sowing soil analysis of the nutrient content;
– carries out the evaluation of soil conditions;
– provides guidelines on technologies for the cultivation of agricultural crops;
– conducts multi-environment trials of agricultural crops;
– conducts studies on varieties, plant protection products, fertilizers, and agricultural machinery;
– organizes seminars and demonstration trials;
– devises business plans and conducts feasibility studies for agricultural investment projects, including projects for the participants of Government programs;
– provides necessary information for business-planning (search for information on the prices of resources, on suppliers, etc.);
– offers consultation services regarding patents;
– provides scientific and technological support for projects.
Our accredited Laboratory of Potato Disease Diagnostics:
– conducts field studies for varieties of agricultural crops;
– conducts the evaluation of potato seed quality (the analysis of potato tubers);
– performs the laboratory testing of leaves and tubers for latent viral infection (PVX, PVS, PVM, PVY, and PLRV);
– collects samples for laboratory testing.
Our accredited Laboratory of Agrochemical Analyses:
– conducts soil surveys;
– collects soil samples;
– performs analyses of soil samples for acidity, organic matter (humus), nitrates, hydrolyzable nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium;
– creates soil property maps;
– prepares reports on soil properties for agrobusinesses;
– performs analyses of organic fertilizers for mass fraction of water, ash, total nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, organic matter, pH of salt extract, and etc.
– performs analyses of mineral fertilizers for moisture, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, and magnesium in limestone flour;
– performs analyses of agricultural products (forages) for protein, oil, protein, fat, carotene, crude fiber, gluten, pH, crude fat, sugar, starch, feed units, nitrogen and crude protein, phosphorus, potassium, heavy metals, and etc.