Kyrgyz Research Institute of Agriculture

 

The history of the Kyrgyz Scientific Research

Institute of Agriculture

The Kyrgyz Scientific Research Institute of Agriculture was established in 1956 on the basis of the State Breeding and Republican Fruit and Vegetable experimental stations.

The Institute of Agriculture was the largest diversified and comprehensive research institution, which had 17 departments, including 26 laboratories and sectors. In addition, the institute included Experimental farms, the Kyrgyz experimental breeding station for sugar beet, the Kyrgyz Experimental station for cotton growing, the Republican Feed Experimental Station, the Issyk-Kul experimental breeding station, Naryn and Burgandinsky strongholds, seed farms named after the 50th anniversary of the USSR and Kugart.

 

 

The scientific work of the Institute of Agriculture, its experimental stations and support points located in various soil and climatic zones, is aimed at solving the following main problems: the scientific foundations of the irrigation and rain-fed agriculture system; breeding the highest-yielding, high-quality varieties of all crops, improving seed production and seed business methods; development of promising crop cultivation technology based on complex mechanization; the economy of the agricultural sector of agriculture in Kyrgyzstan.

 

 

All these and other problems were developed by a well-coordinated, highly qualified team of scientists from the Institute, its experimental stations and support points, where 700 scientific and technical staff worked, of which 341 researchers, including 99 candidates and doctors of sciences.

In addition, recommendations for the management of typical farms for individual agricultural zones of the republic were developed and published: for the Prifergan cotton zone, recommendations were developed on the basis of the Kyrgyz experimental station for cotton growing; for beet and livestock - on the basis of the collective farm named after him. Lenin of the Kantsky district; for tobacco and livestock - on the basis of the Frunze collective farm of the Nookatsky district of the Osh region; for sheep and tobacco - on the basis of the collective farm named after Kalinina, Talas district. The scientific and production activities of the Institute of Agriculture and its farms were carried out on a total land area of 135 thousand hectares, of which 35 thousand hectares are arable land, about half of it is irrigated.

 

 

Orchards and vineyards made up 1,100 hectares, the rest of the area was occupied by hayfields and pastures. Experimental stations and family farms of the institute annually produced to collective farms and state farms about 80 thousand tons of elite seeds and the first reproduction of grain crops, over 5 thousand tons of seeds of starting lines and hybrids of corn, 6 thousand tons of seed potatoes, 2 thousand tons of seeds of perennial grasses, 400 tons of vegetable seeds, all elite sugar beet seeds, 50-60 thousands of seedlings of fruits and grapes.