Meeting of the Coordination and Methodological Council of the Institute of Vegetable and Melon Growing of National Academy of Agrarian Sciences

On November 14-15, 2022, a meeting of the Coordination and Methodological Council of the Institute of Vegetable and Melon Growing of National Academy of Agrarian Sciences - the main institution for the implementation of the scientific research program 20 “Selection and technology for the production of vegetable and melоn plant” “Vegetable and Melon Growing”. 6 institutions are involved in the program:

Institute of Vegetable and Melon Growing of NAAS with a network of stations (RS "Mayak", Dnipropetrovsk RS, Donetsk RS); Cherkasy Research Station of the National Scientific Center of the NAAS Institute of Agriculture; Institute of Climate-Ortinated Agriculture of NAAS; Institute of Horticulture of NAAS; Transcarpathian NAAS Research Station. The meeting discussed the intermediate results of scientific researches of eighteen fundamental and thirteen applied tasks. In the breeding direction, the scientific work in the current year was the creation of an indeterminant hybrid of tomato for protected soil, a line of tomato with high content of lycopene, variety of vegetable mlaskavets, self -bearing lines of root crops.

In the technological area of research, a biologized system of protection of beans and winter garlic from a complex of pests and diseases has been developed. System for the use of silk-containing fertilizers for the treatment of melons. According to the results of the study on the culture of asparagus, scientific and practical recommendations "Organization of cold chain and logistics in the production of asparagus green" were developed.

Scientists of the main institution have developed materials of reports of other executors, network of research stations and staff of the Institute, provided recommendations for improving the efficiency and improving the methodological level of project implementation. The high scientific level of work of the Institute of Climate-Ortinated Agriculture of NAAS was noted. The executors of the GDR of this institution, despite the temporary occupation of the territories by Russian invaders in full, implemented a program of research and provided in a timely manner of scientific reports.