On October 16, 2024, a joint meeting of the melioration section of the Academic Council of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Ministry of Agriculture of the Novgorod Region was held in Veliky Novgorod on the topic: "Current aspects of the implementation of the program for the development of decommissioned agricultural land in the Novgorod region."
On October 16, the solemn signing of the agreement on the establishment of the basic Department of Agrophysical Engineering at the Institute of Civil Engineering on the basis of the Federal State Budgetary Budgetary Institution "Agrophysical Research Institute" (API) took place. Rector Andrey Rudskoy and Director of the Institute of Civil Engineering Marina Petrochenko attended the event from SPbPU. AFI was represented by Director Yuri Chesnokov and leading researcher Tatyana Danilova.
For the first time, the IX International Congress "Weak and Ultraweak Fields and Radiation in Biology and Medicine", dedicated to its creator - Lidia Nikolaevna Gall (1934-2023), was held within the walls of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Agrophysical Research Institute" (FSBI API) from October 2 to 4, 2024, under the auspices of the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences.). The Co-chairs of the Program Committee made a welcoming speech: Director of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution AFI Yu.V. Chesnokov, who noted the importance of research on the effects of electromagnetic fields for applied agriculture and the agro-industrial complex of the Russian Federation as a whole, and Director of the Institute of Analytical Instrumentation of the Russian Academy of Sciences A.A. Evstrapov, who emphasized the key role of the development of theoretical concepts and experimental confirmations, as well as expressed hope for fruitful work and further development of this branch of modern science.
From 28th till 30th August at the Expoforum exhibition and convention centre in Saint-Petersburg the 33rd International Agroindustrial Exhibition "AGRORUS-2024" was held. The Agrophysics Institute is the most active participant of it.
