The Institute of Flax offers consumers liquid complex fertilizer brand NPK - 5:7:10, enriched with microelements and the technology of its application in flax crops under a manufacturing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Purpose: Increasing resistance to diseases, yield and quality of flax products.
Brief description of the development: Flax cultivation technology includes the use of liquid complex nitrogen-phosphorus-potassium fertilizers of the NPK = 5:7:10 grade, enriched with microelements: B-0.1% (in mineral form), Zp - 0.1% and Cu 0.1% (in chelated form), on soils with different acidity levels and granulometric composition, ensuring uniform formation of yield and quality of flax products throughout the entire vegetation period of flax plants.

Information is posted on the website of the Institute of Flax here. (in Russian)

Liquid complex chelate fertilizers applied to the soil provide an increase in the total fiber yield by 3.5-4.0 c/ha, including long fiber by 1.8-2.5 c/ha. It is more economically efficient to use them for feeding flax plants in the phases: shoots - beginning of the "Christmas tree"; full "Christmas tree" phase in doses of 4-6 or 4+6 l/ha (depending on the soil and climatic conditions of vegetation), which provides an increase in seed yield by 0.3-1.2, trusts - by 6.9-9.7, total fiber - by 3.2-4.1 c/ha. The fertilizer form corresponds to the best world analogues. The profitability of flax production, calculated for fiber, is 28.3-42.7%, the conditional net income is 240-253 thousand rubles/ha.

TU BY 400069905.032-2008 "Complex liquid fertilizers"; Technological regulations for the use of liquid complex fertilizers for flax of the NPK = 5:7:10 brand with boron (0.15%), zinc (0.1%), copper (0.1%) have been developed. Fertilizers are produced at Gomel Chemical Plant OJSC.

The Institute of Flax is the leading scientific organization in the Republic in the field of flax growing and flax processing.

The main priority areas of activity of the Flax Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus are:
- Creation of new highly productive varieties of fiber flax of various maturity groups and high-yielding, high-fat varieties of oil flax with high technological and food qualities of oil.
- Primary seed production of zoned and promising varieties of fiber flax and oil flax.
- Development of environmentally friendly, resource-saving technologies for the cultivation and harvesting of new and promising varieties of fiber flax and oil flax in the conditions of the Republic of Belarus.
- Development of agrotechnical methods for increasing the yield and quality of flax products and reducing the cost of production of flax products.
- Monitoring the morphophysiological and phytosanitary state of fiber flax crops.
- Improving the methods of managing processes occurring during the aging of flax straw.
- Implementation of scientific developments in agricultural production, advanced training of personnel in the flax industry.

The Institute offers cooperation in the field of:
- improving the methods of assessing the quality of the source material at the initial stages of the selection process;
- creating a national flax collection, studying it, replenishing it, and targeting its use in selection;
- selection and immunological assessment of the source material of flax for the purpose of targeting the creation of varieties resistant to various pathogens;
- developing a technology for cultivating new zoned varieties of fiber flax and oil flax;
- developing new compositions of complex fertilizers;
diagnostics of mineral nutrition of fiber flax and oil flax;
- studying the relationship between the density of the stem stand and mineral nutrition, their influence on the quality indicators of fiber and seeds of fiber flax;
- studying the relationship between stem density and mineral nutrition on the yield and quality indicators of oil flax seeds;
- developing methods for reducing the incidence of diseases of straw and seeds of fiber flax and oil flax;
- expanding research in the direction of improving the technology of dew soaking of flax straw and standardization of flax products;
- conducting research on the further development of the theory of obtaining scutched flax fiber and identifying patterns of change in the structure of the stem layer at the stages of agricultural production;
- developing new instrumental methods for assessing the quality of scutched flax fiber and flax products.

International scientific and technical cooperation has been established with leading research organizations of the Russian Federation, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Poland, engaged in the cultivation and processing of flax.

Among the partners of the Institute:

JSC "Lyakhovichi Flax Mill"
JSC "Pruzhany Flax Mill"
JSC "Gorkilen"
JSC "Dubrovnolen Flax Mill"
RUE "Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Agriculture"

Consumers interested in purchasing liquid complex fertilizer brand NPK - 5:7:10, enriched with microelements and the technology of its application in flax crops under a manufacturing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing liquid complex fertilizer brand NPK - 5:7:10, enriched with microelements and the technology of its application in flax crops under a distribution services agreement.