The Institute of Fruit Growing offers consumers the Chaenomeles japonica variety Likhtar under a manufacturing agreement and/or services for modification and adaptation to local conditions of the technology for growing quince on private plots under an outsourcing agreement, and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

This is a perennial deciduous shrub of the Rosaceae family (rose-flowered), genus Chaenomeles, originally from Japan.

Origin: from free pollination of a selected form of Japanese henomeles.

A mid-season variety, winter-hardy, characterized by annual fruiting and stable yield (8 kg / bush or 27 t / ha), relatively resistant to fungal diseases. Begins to bear fruit in the 3rd year after planting in the garden.

The bush is low-growing, semi-spreading, with a weak degree of thorniness. The shoots are curved, medium thickness.

The leaf is obovate, green, shiny, without pubescence.

The flowers are large, bright orange.

The fruits are apple-shaped (average weight - 45 g), slightly bumpy, yellow, aromatic. The taste is sour. Tasting assessment of processed products – 4.3-4.9 points.

Read more about the technology of growing the Chaenomeles japonica variety Likhtar on the Institute's website here.

A brief description of the Chaenomeles japonica variety Likhtar can be found here.

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

Included in the state register of agricultural plant varieties in 2014 for home garden cultivation.

The Institute of Fruit Growing of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus is the first and currently the leading specialized organization in the field of fruit growing in the Republic of Belarus

The main areas of scientific and scientific-innovative activities 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 selection, 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 healthy planting material;
- selection 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 planting of gardens and berry fields;
- implementation of patent-licensing and inventive work, wide dissemination of scientific research results 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.

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 the RUE "Grodno Zonal Institute of Plant Growing of the NAS of Belarus", RUE "Brest OSKhOS of the NAS of Belarus", RUE "Gomel OSKhOS of the NAS of Belarus".

Consumers interested in purchasing the Likhtar variety of Japanese Chaenomeles, under a under a manufacturing agreement and/or services for modification and adaptation to local conditions of the technology for growing Chaenomeles in backyard plots, under an outsourcing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing the Likhtar variety of Japanese Chaenomeles, and/or services for modification and adaptation to local conditions of the technology for growing Chaenomeles in backyard plots, under a distribution services agreement.