Founded 2006

Director General: Cand.Agr.Sc. Fedor I. PRIVALOV, tel.: +375 (1775) 970-33
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Agr.Sc. Nadezhda A. ASAYONOK (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (1775) 342-11

Field of Activities: Applied and fundamental research for arable farming, plant growing, plant breeding, genetics and plant protection. Creation of a highly productive varieties of agricultural crops, working out of resource-saving technologies

Subdivisions: laboratories of crop rotations; soil cultivation; seed growing; winter wheat; winter rye; triticale; spring barley; pea and vetch; buckwheat; cruciferous crops; oat; lupine; food roots; perennial leguminous grasses; cereal grasses; biochemical analysis and products quality; genetics and biotechnology; immunity; seed growing; genepool of cultural crops; departments of production technology of cereal crops and problems of adaptive plant farming; annual feed crops; science technical information; group of qualitative determination of seeds by the electrophoresis

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.01 Common arable farming; 06.01.05 Plant breeding and seed-growing; 06.01.09 Plant growing

Production and Services: new highly productive varieties of agricultural crops and perennial grasses and progressive resource-saving technologies of its cultivation; working out of business plans of effective farming with account of a soil climatic conditions and farms specializing; sailing of original seeds of agricultural crops on the base of licensed agreement; conduct of consultations and education seminars for questions of agrotechnics of the main agricultural crops cultivation

Founded 1931

Director: Dr.Agr.Sc. Vitalij V. LAPA, tel.: +375 (17) 212-07-51
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Agr.Sc. Galina V. SLOBODNITSKAYA (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 212-07-12

Field of Activities: Rational use of soil resources; assessment and reproduction of soil fertility; soil monitoring; optimization of agrochemical soil properties; soil protection methods from degradation; effective resource saving technologies of macro- and microfertilizers application for the main soil varieties of the Republic on the basis of mineral nutrition of agricultural crops; development of new fertilizer forms; agrochemical techniques of quality improvement of agricultural production balanced on macro- and microelements contents

Subdivisions: laboratories of agrophysical soil properties and soil protection from erosion; monitoring of soil fertility and ecology; technogenic soil pollution; organic soil matter; soil microbiology and biochemistry; fertilization system and crop nutrition; microelements; new fertilizer forms and chemical means; soil-agrochemical analyses; sectors of soil mapping methodics and evaluation; economy fertilizer application; scientific developments introduction; Gomel territorial subdivision of agricultural radiology

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.03 Agrarian soil science, agrophysics; 06.01.04 Agrochemistry

Production and Services: soil assessment of the republic, their composition, properties and conducting of monitoring investigations; development of the techniques on rational using of eroded and erosion dangerous lands; development of resource saving fertilizer systems under agricultural crops; development and improvement of computer tasks on plans of fertilizer application for economies of the republic; development and perfecting of methodical works on agrochemical serving of agriculture; working out of normative indexes for evaluation of agronomical, energy, economic efficiency of fertilizer application; development of new forms of complex fertilizers

Founded 1971

Director: Cand.Agr.Sc. Sergey V. SOROKA, tel.: +375 (17) 509-23-38
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Agr.Sc. Sviatlana J. YARTCHKOVSKAYA (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 509-23-43

Field of Activities: Development of scientific criteria of production and rational application of effective, ecologically safe means of agricultural crop protection against noxious organisms based on local raw resources use and microorganism strains. Development of methodological fundamentals of ecological safety of plant protection systems. Development of information technologies in plant protection. Development of new resource saving ecologically safe technologies of grain, fodder, technical crops, large-and-small fruits protection against pests, diseases and weeds

Subdivisions: laboratories of entomology; phytopathology; herbology; fodder and technical crop protection; potato protection; vegetable crop protection; fruit crop protection; microbiological method of agricultural crop protection against pests and diseases; pesticide dynamics; group of new technologies of pesticides application and economics of plant protection; department of information, marketing and patent research

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.11 Plant protection

Production and Services: carrying out search research, development and also scientific and production check of ecologically safe techniques, methods and systems of plant protection against pests, diseases and weeds as applied to concrete natural and climatic zones of the Republic; development of recommendations for collective farms, State farms, lease holders, farmers, cooperatives on integrated systems of agricultural crop protection against pests, diseases and weeds with the use of agrotechnical, biological, chemical and other methods of plant protection; development of progressive technologies of agricultural crop protection against pests, diseases and weeds, answering the demands of high-intensive agricultural production, issues of correspondent technological maps and normative materials; carrying out biological preparation testing for the sake of their subsequent registration in the Republic

Founded 1930

Director: Cand.Techn.Sc. Nikolai K. VAKHONIN, tel.: +375 (17) 292-47-14
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Techn.Sc. Tamara G. SVIRYDOVICH (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 292-48-51

Field of Activities: Development of a high effective resource-saving zonal systems of a reclamative farming and meadow culture provided the increase of reclaimed lands productivity, resistant function of agroecosystems, conservation and rational use of the natural resources, its improvement. Development of the optimized regulations, technologies and design decision for increase of effectiveness exploitation, repair and reconstruction of reclaimed systems with a long agricultural use, its learning. Development and introduction of systems of the control state and taking decision for optimization of agricultural use of reclaimed lands, planning and projecting of reclaimed systems and activities, its informational providing on the base of monitoring

Subdivisions: laboratories of using and preservation of peat complexes; drained mineral ground use; meliorative system exploitation; monitoring and modelling of natural systems; hydraulic engineering; hayfilds and pastures on the reclaimed grounds; departments of the scientific and technical information; industrial plant cultivation; the experimental industrial enterprise; Vitebsk experimental meliorative station; Self-supporting sector of constructive elements of meliorative systems

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.02 Reclamation, recultivation, and lands protection; 06.01.12 Feed production and meadow culture

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 06.01.02 Reclamation, recultivation, and lands protection; 06.01.12 Feed production and meadow culture

Production and Services: technologies and technologic regulations for production of a repair-exploitation works, cultivation of plant production on the meliorative lands, new constructions of elements of melioralive systems for the effective increase of its reconstruction, test samples and a small machines, mechanisms, devices, apparatus; experimental samples and test consignments of water absorbed devices and filter materials with the application of polymers; tests and realization of modern technologies by the cultivation of a flower-decorative production and vegetables crops seedling

Founded 2000

Director: Dr.Agr.Sc. Ivan A. GOLUB, tel.: +375 (216) 27-24-82
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Agr.Sc. Viktor Z. BOGDAN, tel.: +375 (216) 27-24-67

Field of Activities: Selection of new grades of long-stalked flax and oil-yielding flax, primary seed-growing of area-divided grades of flax, development of ecologically safe, resource-saving technologies of cultivation and harvesting of flax; development of agro-technical methods of increase of productivity and quality of flax products, reduction the cost price of manufacturing of linen production; perfection of methods of managing the processes occurring at stage of seasoning of flax straw; definition of physic-mechanical parameters of quality of a flax fibers

Subdivisions: lagro-technical department; laboratories of selection of long-stalked flax; selection of oil-yielding flax; seed-growing; definitions of quality of flax products; primary processing

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.05 Selection and seed-growing; 06.01.09 Plant cultivation

Production and Services: new grades of flax; recommendations on questions of perfection of technology of cultivation of flax; standard samples of long and short linen fibres; color-shade standards of a scotched long fibre; original seeds of grades of long-stalked flax

Founded 2006

Director General: Cand.Agr.Sc. Sergey A. TURKO, tel.: +375 (17) 50-66-145
Scientific Secretary: Natalija V. POZNJAK (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 50-66-283

Field of Activities: Research and development of methods for potato initial material creation (interspecies hybridization, cell engineering); practical breeding of new potato varieties; development and improvement of methods of original potato seed production, particularized technologies of potato production and pathogens protection; satisfaction of healthy seed potato

Subdivisions: departments of potato breeding; potato protection; seed potato production; laboratories of potato initial material; immunodiagnostics; technology; biochemistry and agricultural chemistry testing; biotechnology

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.05 Breeding and seed production; 06.01.11 Plant protection; 06.01.09 Plant growing

Production and Services: selection of better potato varieties, supplies of the seed potato of high quality; application of the resource-saving adaptive technologies of food potato and seed production; complex scientific service of projects

Founded 1990

Director: Dr.Agr.Sc. Aleksandr A. AUTKO, tel.: +375 (17) 221-37-18
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Biol.Sc. Tatiana I. ZHITKEVICH (Mrs.,) tel.: +375 (17) 221-36-04

Field of Activities: Creation of vegetable varieties and hybrids with high technical and biochemical properties and resistance to abiotic and biotic environmental factors. Development of new technology for growing high-quality seeds of new varieties and vegetable hybrids, primary multiplication of varieties and hybrids produced by the native selection. Development and improvement of economically effective and ecologically safe energy-saving technologies for growing vegetables in open and protected ground. Development of mechanization means for cultivating and gathering vegetables. Introduction and promotion of scientific research in agricultural production in order to enhance the efficiency of growing vegetables on specialized farms

Subdivisions: laboratories for cole crops; cucurbits crops; leguminous crops; onion crops; solanaceous crops; technological research; immunity and biotechnologies; department for protected ground and agrochemistry; edible roots group

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.05 Breeding and seed production; 06.01.06 Vegetable growing

Production and Services: varieties and hybrids of vegetables, high-quality seeds of new varieties and hybrids, technologies for growing vegetables in open and protected ground, technologies for growing vegetable seeds of new varieties and hybrids, means of mechanization of cultivating and gathering vegetables

Founded 1925

Director: Cand.Agr.Sc. Vyacheslav A. SAMUS, tel.: +375 (17) 506-61-49
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Agr.Sc. Marina S. SHALKEVICH (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 506-67-07

Field of Activities: Breeding and introduction of fruit, small fruit, nut and vine crops and their rootstocks. Collecting germplasm of fruit, small fruit, nut and vine crops. Developing and improving technologies of fruit and small fruit production, storage and processing. Diagnostics of virus and virus-like pathogens and establishment of nuclear stock. Developing and improving technologies and production of fruit and small fruit planting material. Breeding improvement of bees race and their productive qualities. Designing orchards and small fruit plantations

Subdivisions: laboratories of biochemistry and agrochemical analyses; bee-keeping; departments of fruit plants breeding; nursery growing; fruit growing technology; small fruit growing; biotechnology; storage and processing (group of warmer climatic zones crops); introduction and marketing; scientific and technical information and foreign relations; library

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.01.05 Breeding and seed production; 06.01.07 Fruit and vine growing

Production and Services: planting and grafting material of fruit, small fruit, nut and vine crops for orchards, small fruit plantations and vineyards; development of design estimates for the mentioned plantations; agrochemical soil analysis and pathogen virus testing of planting material; methodical assistance and high-qualified consultancy at all stages of development of fruit, small fruit, grapes and planting material growing technologies

Founded 2006

Director General: Cand.Econ.Sc. Vladimir G. SAMOSYUK, tel.: +375 (17) 280-02-91
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Techn.Sc. Vladimir F. MARYSHEV, tel.: +375 (17) 280-01-63

Field of Activities: Carrying out research studies in the fields of mechanization and power engineering of agriculture, increase of the efficiency of research studies, speed-up of implementation of scientific developments in production for intensification of processes of innovation development of social and economic spheres of the country

Subdivisions: laboratories of systems of machines and technical operation of machine and tractor fleet; till-age and crops; mechanization of ameliorating works; mechanization of using fertilizers and chemical agents of plants protection; harvest and after-harvest cultivation of grain and seeds; mechanization of vegetables and roots production; mechanization of fodder storage; mechanization of preparation of concentrated food; mechanization of milk and beef production processes; mechanization and automation of engineering processes in pig-breeding and poultry keeping; mechanization of flax culture, gathering and reprocessing; use of fuel and energy resources; maintenance works in the agroindustrial complex; agricultural heat supply and renewable energy; energy-saving technologies, electrification and automation

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 05.20.01 Technologies and means of agriculture mechanization; 05.14.08 Energy installations on the basis of renewable energy; 05.18.01 Technology of processing, storage and reprocessing of grain crops, legumes, groats products, fruit and vegetable products and wine-growing

Production and Services: results of research and development works for the development and implementation of machines and technologies in the field of agricultural production, training scientific staff of higher qualification, publishing book, periodicals, manufacturing of experimental and pilot models of agricultural machinery, including batch production

Founded 2006

Director General: Dr.Techn.Sc. Zenon V. LOVKIS, tel.: +375 (17) 285-39-70
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Techn.Sc. Irina N. STIGAILO (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 294-33-34

Field of Activities: Fundamental and applied research and developments directed to produce competitive health-giving foodstuffs; developing and innovating new technologies of deep processing of plant and animal husbandry products; quality and safety control of foodstuffs; modernization and design of technological equipment for food industry; design work; personnel training to raise the level of its skill connected to actual food industry professions

Subdivisions: departments of canned food technologies with testing laboratory; sugar, confectionery, food concentrates and oil technologies; potato and vegetables product technologies; distillery, wine, beer and non-alcoholic beverages product technologies; innovating technologies; economic research; engineering; complex design; certification, metrology and quality systems; laboratory for researching and testing the products

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 05.18.04 Meat, milk and fish products technology and refrigerating industry; 05.18.07 Biotechnology of food products; 05.18.12 Processes and devices in food industry; 05.18.15 Commodity research of food products and catering products technology

Production and Services: development of normative and technical documentation for renovating a range of food products; food products quality and safety examination; design and construction work connected with modernization and technical re-equipment of production lines in food industry; equipment production for enterprises involved in food industry; certification of food products and other goods; consulting service concerning the application of international quality and safety systems among various enterprises; economic research work and drawing up business-plans for enterprises; organization and holding of seminars, scientific and practical conferences, exhibitions

Founded 1986

Director: Cand.Econ.Sc. Aleksey V. MELESHCHENYA, tel.: +375 (17) 299-69-95
Scientific Secretary: Valentina A. POTJOMKINA (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 244-38-61

Field of Activities: Development of new sorts of meat and dairy products, energy-saving and resource-saving technologies. Development of bacterial concentrates, preventive treatment products for infant food

Production and Services: Production of bacterial concentrates, treatment-and-prophylactic products for infant food. Norm-setting and standardization in the field of meat and dairy industry. Development of building and reconstruction projects for meat and dairy enterprises. Quality testing of agricultural raw materials (products), meat and dairy products. Certification of equipment for meat, dairy and poultry processing industries. Scientific support of meat and dairy industries, participating in development and implementation of state and branch programs

Founded 2006

Director: Cand.Econ.Sc. Stanislav K. KARPOVICH, tel.: +375 (17) 294-86-04

Field of Activities: Research and development of new perspective technologies, new machines and the equipment for storage and processing fruit-and-vegetable products and potato; design estimates; manufacturing, installation and engineering setup of the process equipment and hothouses; certification of foodstuff

Subdivisions: departments of food storage and complex processing technology; processing fruit-and-vegetable products technology and standardization; testing laboratory; complex design department; engineering department; model shop department; certification body

Production and Services: Manufacturing, installation, engineering setup, repairs service of the machines and the equipment for the fruit-and-vegetable products; development of normative and technical documentation for renovating a range of food products; laboratory research of foodstuff

Founded 2006

Director General: Cand.Agr.Sc. Nikolai A. POPKOV, tel.: +375 (17) 294-93-30
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Agr.Sc. Mariya G. ZALESSKAYA (Mrs.) , tel.: +375 (1775) 235-23

Field of Activities: Perfection and creation of new high-productive breeds, types and lines of agricultural animals using new breeding methods. Development of ecologically secure, resource saving technologies of animal breeding production, feeding norms, biotechnology of accelerated reproduction of valuable genotypes (transplantation, in vitro)

Subdivisions: laboratories of reproduction and genetic engineering of animals; animal genetics; diary cattle breeding; horse and sheep reeding; hybridization in pig breeding; pig breeding; scientific development of intensive milk and beef production technology; machine milking and milk quality; pork production technology and zoohygiene; pig feeding, feeding and physiology of livestock nutrition; cattle feeding; forage and pastures; animal breeding products and forage quality; nutrition supplementations development; dairy cattle breeding; department of scientific and technical information and patent branch

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 06.02.01 Breeding and Reproduction of Animals; 06.02.02 Feeding and Forage Technologies; 06.02.04 Private Zootechnics, Technology of Animal Breeding Production

Production and Services: agricultural animal breeds, technologies, biotechnologies, forage and supplements recipes, laboratory researches of resources, milk, blood, development of design estimates on reconstruction and construction of agricultural facilities for livestock, production and perfection of boars sperm thinner

Founded 1986

Director: Dr.Agr.Sc. Viktor V. KONCHITS, tel.: +375 (17) 275-36-41
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Biol.Sc. Raisa L. ASADCHAYA (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 275-34-92

Field of Activities: Selection and breeding work with carp and other pond fish species, aimed at rearing of the new high-productive breeds and improvement of the existing fish stocks; technology of pond pisciculture, feeding and fodders production, environment optimization and fish disease prevention; rational usage of fish resources in natural reservoirs

Subdivisions: laboratories of pond pisciculture; pisciculture and fishing in natural reservoirs; fish selection and breeding; fish fodders; fish disease; radiation ecology and environment quality; Experimental base - Selection and stock station "Isobelino"; self-supporting station "Vileika"

Production and Services: selection and breeding of carp fish; reproduction and growing of new pisciculture species; expert evaluation of fish stock and populations; growing and sale of carp and indigenous fish seeding; development of complex measures aimed at rehabilitation and prophylaxis of the fish farms against infectious and invasive diseases; providing diagnostic research for fish diseases

Founded 1910

Director: Cand.Agr.Sc. Vladimir V. KURILOVICH, tel.: +375 (1514) 23-690
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Agr.Sc. Nikolay Nikolayevich SHUGLYA, tel.: +375 (1514) 28-952

Field of Activities: Increasing the efficiency in agriculture and providing of food safety; seed-growing, the adaptive, resource-saving, ecologically safe technologies of the cultivation of agricultural crops; the organization of mastering and the broad propaganda of scientific achievements in agricultural production of region for the purpose of increasing the efficiency of plant growing branch, conducting the personnel studies

Subdivisions: divisions of seed-growing of corn and bob cultures; seed-growing of perennial grasses; technical cultures; potatoes; horticulture

Production and Services: high-quality seed material new perspective sort agricultural cultures; technologies production corn, bob, technical cultures and perennial rubbed; the landing material of the fruit cultures

Founded 1965

Director: Corr. Mem. Aleksandr V. KILCHEVSKY, tel.: +375 (17) 294-91-83
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Biol.Sc. Natalia V. PAVLYUCHUK (Mrs.), tel.: +375 (17) 284-19-44

Field of Activities: Studies on genetic processes of regulating vital functions of plants and animals for controlling their productivity, quality and resistance. Studiesy on structural and functional organization and variability of genomes, gene engineering and cell biotechnologies, biosafety. Studies on genetic problems of resistance and variability of organisms under technogenic environmental pollution conditions

Subdivisions: laboratories of molecular genetics; functional genetics of plants; extrachromosomal inheritance; morphogenesis genetics; ecological genetics and biotechnology; genetic safety; animal genetics; modelling genetic processes; chromosome engineering of plants; phytoimmunity genetics; potato genetics; National Co-ordination Biosafety Centre; division of research and innovative work

Postgraduate Studies in the field of: 03.00.15 Genetics; 03.00.26 Molecular genetics

Postdoctoral Training in the field of: 03.00.15 Genetics

Production and Services: analyses for the absence/presence of genetically modified organisms in products; multifunctional bacterial preparation "Gen u" improving mineral nutrition of plants, stimulating growth, suppressing development of phytopathogenic fungi and root-knot nematode; bacterial preparation "Plantriz" for protecting agricultural crops against a complex of rot pathogens and phytopathogens; DNA-certification of agricultural crops; DNA-diagnostics of economically valuable traits of animals; DNA-diagnostics of diseases related to mutations in mitochondrial human genome

Founded 1998

Head: Dr.Biol.Sc. Alexander P. YERMISHIN, tel.: +375 (17) 284-02-97, 264-61-20

Field of Activities: collecting, analysis and systematisation of information concerning biosafety legislation and scientific research, field trials, import/export and commercial use of genetically engineered organisms (GEOs) and products consisting or containing living GEOs in Belarus; establishment the National Biosafety Data Base; providing relevant ministries and other republican authorities, mass communication media with biosafety information; exchange of information with biosafety focal points of other countries, international organisations; organising the scientific expertise of safety (risk assessment) of GEOs or products consisting or containing living GEOs, which trials or commercial use are intended in Belarus; advisory service on development of biosafety legislation and guidelines, good laboratory practice for genetic engineering laboratories; advisory service in bilateral, regional and international agreements concerning biosafety

Founded 2005

Director: Cand.Biol.Sc. Nikolai V. MIHALCHUK, tel.: +375 (162) 41-80-81
Scientific Secretary: Cand.Biol.Sc. Viktor T. DEMIANCHIK, tel.: +375 (162) 41-54-26

Field of Activities: Carrying out of research on a biosphere-compatible natural management and environmental control in modern conditions of Polessye region. Realization of monitoring of a natural habitat and an ecological situation in the reclamative-transformed territories of the Belarusian Polessye, monitoring of demographic processes. Development and realization of regional projects and programs of innovative activity in sphere of increase of efficiency of agrarian sector of economy and environmental control

Subdivisions: laboratories of agrobiology; biochemistry; optimization of ecosystems; hydroecology and ecotechnologiesæ section of social and economic research