Scientific and Practical Centre for Arable Farming offers consumers new high-quality varieties of spring wheat - a reserve for increasing gross grain harvests under a manufacturing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Spring soft wheat is an important food crop in Belarus. Despite the significant increase in winter wheat crops in recent years (more than 500 thousand hectares), the area occupied by spring wheat in the republic is significant and amounts to 90-100 thousand hectares. The potential yield of new varieties in state variety testing exceeds 10 t/ha of grain, and in terms of grain quality (protein content, gluten, etc.), spring wheat is superior to winter wheat.

As a result of intensive breeding work, the organization of a comprehensive research system for the creation and testing of new genotypes, the involvement of a modern gene pool, the use of various types of crossing, the use of an environmental factor in different regions of Belarus and Russia, laboratory analysis of grain quality, molecular genetic methods have made it possible to create 12 new highly productive, lodging-resistant varieties of spring soft wheat over the past 20 years.

Six of them are classified as valuable in terms of grain quality (Daria, Rassvet, Toma, Lyubava, Slavyanka, Sudarynya). The varieties Darya and Sudarynya have become famous and widespread in Russia. In 2019, the spring wheat variety Darya, according to the Russian Agricultural Center, was included in the rating of 10 leading varieties in terms of sowing volumes in the Russian Federation with seed production of 53.4 thousand tons.

The priority areas of spring soft wheat breeding at the present stage in Belarus are: high and stable grain yield, resistance to lodging and a range of diseases (powdery mildew, brown rust, leaf and ear septoria, grain fusarium), high grain quality for varieties of various target uses.

Read more on the website of the Scientific and Practical Center for Agriculture here.

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The Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Arable Farming is the leading research institution in the agricultural sector of Belarus.

The main scientific activity of the Scientific and Practical Center for Agriculture is the comprehensive development of issues of cost-effective production of crop products while observing environmental protection requirements.

The main goal is to create highly productive varieties and hybrids of agricultural crops, improve the seed production system, ensure the intensification of the crop production industry based on the development of zonal farming systems adapted to specific soil and climatic conditions, develop highly effective technologies for cultivation, application of fertilizers and plant protection products.

Main tasks:
• Creation of new competitive varieties and hybrids of grain, leguminous, cereal, industrial and forage crops with improved economically useful characteristics, possessing high and stable productivity, resistance to lodging, diseases and pests, frost and winter hardiness, combining high responsiveness to soil fertility and resistance to limiting environmental factors.
• Development of complex, economically and biologically sound land use systems based on the principles of greening and resource and energy conservation, ensuring sustainable productivity of arable land, reduced energy costs and production costs, expanded reproduction of soil fertility.
• Development of highly efficient, resource-saving technologies for the integrated use of macro- and microfertilizers for new varieties and agricultural crops, ensuring the formation of high yields and quality of plant products at the level of required standards.
• Use of the National Seed Bank of Genetic Resources of Economically Useful Plants as an object of national heritage for the purposes of collection, preservation, study and practical application in selection, production and for interstate exchange.
• Development of new forms of complex fertilizers, balanced in terms of nutrient ratios, for major agricultural crops, taking into account their biological characteristics and soil fertility.
• Development and implementation of resource-saving integrated systems for protecting agricultural crops from pests, diseases and weeds in the conditions of adaptive farming.
• Development and improvement of highly efficient resource-saving zonal systems of melioration farming and grassland management, ensuring increased productivity of reclaimed lands, sustainable functioning of agroecosystems, conservation and rational use of natural resources.

Main areas of activity and areas of cooperation:
• Creation and evaluation of source material for selection of grain and industrial crops, perennial grasses using genetic and biotechnological methods.
• Creation of new varieties and hybrids of grain, leguminous, cereal, industrial crops with improved economically useful characteristics, resistant to lodging, diseases and pests, frost and winter hardiness, combining high responsiveness to soil fertility and resistance to limiting environmental factors.
• Development of complex economically and biologically sound land use systems based on the principles of greening and resource and energy conservation, ensuring sustainable productivity of arable land, reduced energy costs and production costs, expanded reproduction of soil fertility.
• Creation of highly productive varieties of perennial legumes and cereal grasses with increased competitiveness in agrophytocenoses and stable seed productivity, heterotic hybrids of corn and semi-sugar fodder beet, ensuring sustainable seed production in the conditions of Belarus.
• Development of contractual agro-zoo-economic business plans for profitable farming.

The quality management system for conducting research and development work and producing seeds of higher reproductions at the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Agriculture” complies with the requirements of STB ISO 9001 – 2015.

Consumers interested in purchasing new high-quality varieties of spring wheat under a production agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing new high-quality varieties of spring wheat under a distribution service agreement.