From July 18 to 20, 2024, an agricultural exhibition and seminar "Field Day of the Leningrad Region 2024" was held at the site of JSC Rapti Plant in the Luga district, in which employees of the Agrophysical Research Institute took an active part.
On July 11, 2024, Head of the Department of Plant Light Physiology and Bioproductivity of Agroecosystems of the Agrophysical Research Institute Panova Gayane Gennadievna delivered a lecture-report in the Polar Living Room of the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic as the scientific director of the project on growing agricultural plants at the Antarctic station Vostok. The project has been successfully implemented for 4.5 years thanks to the combined efforts and cooperation of three institutes: the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AANI), the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMBP RAS) and the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution "Agrophysical Research Institute" (FGBNU AFI)
Employees of the FGBNU AFI, with the active consulting participation of polar explorers of the 65-69 RAE AARI and in coordination with the AARI and the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences, created and presented at the exhibition a model of “Phytotechnical complexes-greenhouses 1 and 2 with plants indoors at the Antarctic Vostok station”, as well as publications of research results from 2020 until 2024 on testing the specified plant growing systems using the example of various leaf and leafy vegetable crops.
On March 21, 2024, a meeting of the melioration section of the Academic Council of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of the Russian Academy of Sciences "Improvement of Scientific, Methodological and personnel support for Melioration in the Non-Chernozem region" was held, which was attended by employees of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of the Russian Academy of Economics named after K.A. Timiryazev, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution "VNIIGiM named after A.N. Kostyakov", the Academy of Management and Agribusiness of St. Petersburg State Agrarian University, SPbPU Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution named after Peter the Great, the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Emperor Alexander I, as well as the heads and specialists of the Federal State Budgetary Institution Sevzapmeliovodkhoz Management, the Federal State Budgetary Institution Kaliningradmeliovodkhoz Management, Lenvodproekt LLC, GTSAS Leningradsky, Agrochemzem LLC, Predportovy JSC, Institute of Integrated Use and Protection of Water Resources LLC. The meeting discussed the possibilities of practical application of innovative approaches in ensuring the tasks of assessing the condition, restoration and design of reclamation systems of the Non-Chernozem zone of the Russian Federation in modern conditions. Much attention was paid to the issues of training meliorative personnel
Scientists of the Russian Antarctic Expedition of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute together with colleagues from the Agrophysical Research Institute and the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences have successfully completed an experiment on growing vegetables at the Vostok Antarctic station. As a result, it was possible to establish that in two greenhouses of different types using groundless technology "panoponics" for 1 sq. a meter of area per year can grow up to 100 kg of cucumbers, up to 149 kg of cabbage and many other leafy and leaf-stemmed vegetable crops, as well as up to 29 kg of tomatoes and up to 11 kg of sweet pepper. The possibility of multi-level placement of phytotechnological complexes (FTC) allows you to multiply the yield.
