Meeting of the Coordination and Methodology Council

On April 14, 2026, at the Institute of Vegetable and Melon Growing of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences (NAAS), the lead institution for implementing NAAS Research Program 23 «Vegetable and Melon Growing», an online meeting of the Coordination and Methodological Council was held via Zoom to review the work programs for research tasks for the 2026 phase.

The meeting of the Coordination and Methodological Council was attended by researchers from the Institute of Vegetable and Melon Growing of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences (NAAS) and its network of experimental stations: Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, and «Mayak», as well as representatives of organizations co-implementing National Development Program 23: the Institute of Climate-Oriented Agriculture of the NAAS, the Cherkasy Experimental Station of the State Scientific Center «Institute of Agriculture of the NAAS» and the Institute of Agricultural Resources and Regional Development of the NAAS.

In total, more than 30 researchers attended the meeting.

Oksana SERHIIENKO, Deputy Director for Research, opened the Coordination and Methodological Council. In her speech, she highlighted the challenges facing the vegetable-growing sector during these difficult times of war for the country and the role of domestic science in addressing them.

Viktoria RUD, a leading researcher at the Laboratory for Innovative and Investment Development of the Vegetable Market and Intellectual Property and a Candidate of Economic Sciences, delivered a presentation titled «Modern Vegetable Farming in the Face of Disruptive Challenges».

Twenty-six work programs for the 2026 phase, which are part of the «Vegetable and Melon Growing» Research Program, have been reviewed and approved.