THE FRUIT GROWING TECHNOLOGY DEPARTMENT

  Head of the department: 
  Irina S. LEONOVICH,
  Cand. Ag. Sc. 
  Tel.: +375 (17) 506 61 46.

Deputy of the head of the department:
 Vladimir K. Khomyakov,
engineer. Tel.: +375 (17) 506 61 46.
 
Department staff:
N.G. KAPICHNIKOVA, key scientific associate,
Cand. Ag. Sc., associate professor.
Tel.: + 375 (17) 506 61 44.
T.V. RYABTSEVA, senior scientific associate, Cand. Ag. Sc. 
E.S. BOROVIK, scientific associate, 
N.V. IGNATKOVA, 
P.V. KLAKOTSKI, P.A. TURBIN,
V.A. KHATKEVICH, E.A. MURAVEIKO,
junior scientific associates Tel.: +375 (17) 506 61 46.

E-mail: tech@belsad.by

Scientific research directions:

Improving and working out environmentally safe and resource-saving technologies of fruit crops growing on the basis of:

  Creation of effective one lined constructions of fruit crops plantations on clonal stocks using varieties and hybrids of Belarusian breeding: apple tree on super dwarf (PB-4) and dwarf (62-396 and M9) stocks with support by the scheme 3 x 0.5-1 m (6666 and 3333 trees/ha); on semi dwarf stocks (54-118, 106-13) without support by the scheme 3 x 1-1.2 m (3333 and 2778 trees/ha) with the yield of 40-45 t/ha and commercial yield of not lower than 95%; pear tree by the scheme 3 x 1-1.5 m (3333 and 2222 trees/ha) with the yield of 20-22 t/ha; plum tree by the scheme 3x 2 m (1666 trees/ha) with the yield of 20-25 t/ha; cherry and sweet cherry tree by the scheme 3x 1.5 m (2222 trees/ha) with the yield of 20-22 t/ha;

  Study of care methods for near wellbore area to maintain and improve soil fertility, to increase yield and to improve fruit quality;

  Study of fruit crops reaction on technological training methods (breaking out shoots, trimming roots, trimming body of a tree, pruning in summer period and straightening) to advance coming into bearing and to reduce a tree growth vigour;

  Working out nutrition system of fruit crops on clonal stocks: influence of foliar water-soluble fertilizing, macro and micro mineral elements, growth regulators on yield, fruit quality (fruit size increase, colour improvement, storage, early fruit shedding) to elongate harvest time and storage length; regulation of yield load; maximal biologization and mechanization of production process of fruit growing products;

  Economic estimation of fruiting resource in orchards of different intensity;

Working out applied-research technological regulations of apple, pear, plum, cherry and sweet cherry production.

Offers to production and amateur horticulture:  

Environmentally safe fruit production technology in intense orchard in supported and unsupported variants ensuring stable yield getting:

  - Apple orchards with 30 t/ha and commercial yield of not lower than 95%;

  - Pear narrow-row orchards on clonal stocks with 15-18 t/ha;

  - Orchards of stone crops on clonal stocks with 16-18 t/ha.  

         

                                                                                                          Intensive supported orchard      Unsupported orchard ('Byelorusskoye sladkoye'
                                                                                                                          ('Antey'on dwarf                    on semi-dwarf 
                                                                                                                           rootstock 62-396)                rootstock 57-545)