ВFor a long time, Japan has been providing a lot of aid to Ukraine, as one of its leading donors. Significant support is also provided by the Japanese government, mainly through the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).
Today, February 2, an online meeting with JICA representatives took place. The participants of the meeting were the first deputy general director of the state institution “Institute of Soil Protection of Ukraine” Serhiy Shapran, the deputy general director for scientific activities Svitlana Romanova and the head of the department Andriy Dyomkin.
The main directions of JICA development (assistance mechanisms) are technical assistance programs and projects for capacity building and institutional development, technical and economic justifications and master plans.
At the meeting, the possibilities of the Japanese side to provide equipment for the laboratories of our institution were discussed.
Svitlana Romanova told representatives of the Japanese agency about the main tasks of the state institution “Institute of Soil Protection of Ukraine”. She reported that the institution plans to study the impact of hostilities on the agricultural lands of Ukraine. Soil analysis will be carried out, in particular on agricultural lands affected by military operations (determination of agrochemical parameters and toxicants), boundaries of contaminated areas will be established and mapped on cartographic materials, foreign normative documents will be monitored, which are used for research and reproduction of land cover thoroughly , which were affected by military actions and filling the Interactive map of the destruction of the agricultural sector of Ukraine.
The provision of equipment from JICA will allow the institution to increase its work efficiency by reducing costs.