Development of agricultural technologies will strengthen the competitive position of Russia

On November 24 in Krasnodar region, rector of Stavropol State Agrarian University Vladimir Trukhachev took part in the meeting of the Presidium of the Presidential Council of the Russian Federation on economic modernization and innovative development of Russia. It was dedicated to the innovative development of agriculture. During the meeting, chaired by the Head of the Government of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev, the participants discussed the direction of modern agricultural technology and government policy in this area in the coming years.

In particular, Dmitry Medvedev said that today innovation manifested in virtually all segments of agriculture: the established and new plant varieties, new types of fertilizers, new methods of raising animals, new ways of processing and recycling products.

The Prime Minister also drew attention of the participants to the fact that the overall objective of government, business, scientific organizations, development institutes, agricultural universities is to create conditions under which all the achievements of agricultural science would be actively used in domestic agricultural production and strengthen the competitive position of Russia.

"Investment in research must be accompanied by effective implementation of its results, for this we need to build closer relations between agricultural universities and industry-leading research centers, advanced production companies, to link the selection of priority directions of development of agribusiness with the formation of the state tasks for universities and research centers. It is important to maintain both small innovative companies and educational and experimental farms"- is said in Dmitry Medvedev’s speech.

It should be noted that Stavropol Agricultural University pays special attention to small innovative enterprises as a connecting thread between education and practical production. So, as an example the Rector of Stavropol State Agrarian University Vladimir Trukhachev named small business Agrochemist +" specializing in the development of systems of fertilizers. This scientific-production organization has an accredited laboratory of agrochemical analysis. The proposed service is available for agro-industrial holdings as well as farms. Annual area for implementation of developments in the south of Russia is 80 to 120 thousand hectares, the sum total of service commercialization since 2011 is more than 11.5 million rubles. As a positive example in the field of livestock, can be named the cooperation of the university with All-Russian scientific-research institutes of sheep, goat and beef cattle breeding. Scientists completed the work on the development of "Dmitrievsky" type of Hereford beef cattle. This is the first selection achievement in the field of cattle breeding in Stavropol region. The breed is featured as tall, stretched, hornless. Meat productivity is increased by 12.6%. Average daily gain is 1 kg 200 g, for best animals - 1 kg 800 g.

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