Today, August 16, a meeting was held between the Director General of the SI “Derzhgruntokhorona” Yuriy Zaytsev and the Director of the National Research Center “Institute of Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences” Mykola Tkachenko for the signing of the Memorandum on scientific cooperation.
The purpose of concluding the Memorandum is the development of mutual cooperation in the field of agriculture for the exchange of experience, the creation of joint programs in various areas of scientific research, including the development of measures to restore soil cover as a result of military operations.
The memorandum will be implemented in the following directions:
– participation in projects that have a protective component of soil cover (impact on the environment of military operations and measures to restore soil cover as a result of military operations, fight against desertification and soil degradation, dehumification, erosion, pollution);
– holding international conferences, seminars, “round table” meetings on the study and implementation of soil protection, resource- and energy-saving technologies; precision agriculture; biologization of agriculture, organic agriculture and organic raw material zones.
Yuriy Zaitsev expressed his sincere gratitude to Mykola Tkachenko, director of the Institute of Agriculture of the National Academy of Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and expressed hope for fruitful cooperation for the benefit of the country’s food security.
