The Institute of Fruit Growing offers consumers varieties and technologies for growing apricots modified for local conditions on personal garden plots under a manufacturing agreement or an outsourcing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Apricot is a valuable fruit species. It has intensive growth, early fruiting, and quickly increases the yield. Photophilous. Prefers loose, well-drained, fertile soils. It can tolerate frosts below -30ºС, however, due to the short dormant period, flower buds often freeze. Fruit formations are short-lived (2-3 years), as a result of which the fruiting zone quickly moves to the periphery of the crown.

Read more about growing technology on the Institute’s website here (in Russian).
Brief descriptions of apricot varieties can be found here (in Russian).

The description of the technology may contain, at the Customer’s request, recommendations for growing apricot fruit species in local conditions.

The main directions of scientific and scientific-innovative activity of the Institute:
- selection and introduction of fruit, berry, nut crops, grapes and their rootstocks;
- creation of a bank of genetic resources of fruit, berry, nut crops and grapes for the purpose of practical use in breeding, production and for interstate exchange or collection;
- development and improvement of technologies for the production, storage and processing of fruits and berries;
- diagnostics of viral, virus-like and bacterial pathogens and creation of basic collections of virus-free plants;
- development and improvement of technologies and production of improved planting material;
- selective improvement of breeding and productive qualities of bees and improvement of technologies for their maintenance and use;
- development of republican standards for planting material, raw materials of fruit and berry crops and products of their processing;
- development of scientific and economic forecasts and comprehensive programs for the development of fruit growing and beekeeping in the Republic of Belarus;
- design and laying of gardens and berry fields;
- implementation of patent-licensing and inventive work, conducting a wide promotion of the results of scientific research through information, advertising and publishing activities.

The Institute of Fruit Growing has concluded more than 80 agreements on scientific cooperation with fruit growing institutions from 23 countries of the world.

In addition to broad international cooperation, the institute actively interacts with research institutions of the republic.
In accordance with the order of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus dated 09.04.2007 No. 16, agreements on scientific support in the field of fruit growing were concluded between the Institute of Fruit Growing and RUE "Grodno Zonal Institute of Plant Growing of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus", RUE "Brest OSHOS of NAS of Belarus", RUE "Gomel OSHOS" of the NAS of Belarus.

The employees of the institute consider the education of students and schoolchildren to be an important part of educational work. The Institute signed an agreement on creative cooperation with the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy, as well as an agreement on creative cooperation and patronage with the State Educational Institution Borovikovskaya Secondary School of the Dzerzhinsky District. For wider coverage and promotion of the institute's developments among the population of the country, an agreement on creative cooperation was concluded with MediaPark LLC, which provides for the creation of special headings for the television program "Season of Luck" on TV channels.

Consumers interested in purchasing varieties and technologies for growing apricots modified for local conditions on personal garden plots under a manufacturing agreement or an outsourcing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing varieties and technologies for growing apricots modified for local conditions on personal garden plots under a distribution services agreement.