On October 6, 2021, a regular meeting of the Scientific Council on Agrarian Problems (hereinafter - the Scientific Council) of the International Association of Academies of Sciences (hereinafter - IAAS), chaired by the Deputy Chairman of the Presidium of the NASB, Corresponding Member P.P. Kazakevich, who is the Chairman of this Council.

Scientists from five countries took an active part in the event: Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Georgia. The order of business of the meeting of the Scientific Council included issues of updating new members and reports on the state of selection and seed production of major agricultural crops both in the Republic of Belarus and abroad.

At present, the Scientific Council includes 25 people from 6 countries, including 13 from Belarus. These are the chief executive officers of five scientific and practical centers of the Academy of Sciences, academicians and corresponding members, directors of scientific organizations of the Department of Agrarian Sciences of the NASB, who are actively conducting research in all areas of the agro-industrial complex of the Republic of Belarus: agriculture, plant growing and fodder production, animal breeding and veterinary medicine. , agricultural mechanization, food production, agrarian economy.

7 new members were admitted to the Scientific Council, including:
4 representatives from the Russian Federation:
- Abramova Irina Mikhailovna, Director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Food Biotechnology - branch of the Federal Research Center for Nutrition, Biotechnology and Food Safety, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor;
- Afanasyev Valeriy Andreevich, General Director of JSC “NPTs“ VNIIKP ”, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor;
- Lukin Nikolai Dmitrievich, Deputy Director for Research, All-Russian Research Institute of Starch Products - branch of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Federal Research Center of Food Systems named after VM Gorbatov "RAS, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Professor;
- Tyu Lyudmila Vasilievna, Head of the Siberian Research Institute of Agricultural Economics of the Siberian Federal Research Center of Agrobiotechnology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Professor; 
1 representative from Kazakhstan:
- Espolov Tlektes Isabaevich, Chairman of the Board - Rector of the Kazakh National Agrarian Research University, Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, Chairman of the Department of Agrarian Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan, Academician, Professor, Doctor of Economics;
2 scientists from the Kyrgyz Republic:
- Chortonbaev Tyrgoot Dzhumadievich, Vice-Rector for Science of the Kyrgyz National Agrarian University named after K. Skryabin, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor;
- Usubaliev Birzhan Kubatovich, head of the group of plant genetic resources of the Kyrgyz Research Institute of Agriculture, Ph.D. in the field of agriculture.

The following reports were heard:
1. "Breeding of cereals, legumes, forage and industrial crops in the Republic of Belarus and areas of interregional cooperation in breeding."
Speaker: Urban Eroma Petrovich - Deputy General Director of the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Agriculture", Corresponding Member, Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor;
2. "Breeding of potatoes, fruit and vegetable crops in the Republic of Belarus and international cooperation of breeders".
Speaker: Vadim Leonidovich Makhanko - General Director of the Republican Unitary Enterprise “Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Potato and Fruit and Vegetable Growing”, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor;
3. "Gene pool and selection of agricultural crops in Kazakhstan".
Speaker: Tireuov Kanat Maratovich - Deputy Chairman of the Management Board - Provost, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Academician, Professor, Doctor of Economics.

The Chairman of the Scientific Council P.P. Kazakevich proposed to hold the next meeting on the topic of ensuring food security of the countries that represent the members of the Scientific Council. It is planned to be held approximately in April-May 2022. A possible place for the next meeting of the Scientific Council on Agrarian Problems of the IAAS will be the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk), which will simultaneously host the International Scientific and Practical Conference "Agrarian Science - Agricultural Production of Siberia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Belarus and Bulgaria".