PRIORITY DIRECTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY

- training of scientific specialists and scientific-technological provision of beet growing branch in Ukraine;

- working out genetical , biotechnological, physiological and physiologo- biochemical technologies of developing new initial materials of sugar beet for breeding for heterosis, resistant to a complex of unfavorable factors;

- creation of new competitive, high-productive, resistant to a complex of unfavorable environmental factors varieties and hybrids of sugar beet, suitable for mechanized growing, which guarantee sugar yield of 8,5-9,0 t/ha and a high seed multiplication rate;

- working out principally: new resource - and energysaving technologies of sugar beet production and growing their seed bearing plants, adapted to soil- climatic conditions of beet growing zones with the aim of maximal use of genetical potential of the crop;

- working out technologies of sugar beet preparation for sowing (rubbing, grading, incrustation, treatment with protective-stimulating substances, pelleting), bringing the level of seed quality indices up to international standards and realization;

- scientific foundation of beet rotations under new conditions; crop alternation in them; soil tillage systems; fertilization with calculation for the planned yield; stand protection from weeds, pests and diseases on the basis of forecasting;

- foundation of organizational-economical model of the optimal functioning of beet-sugar sub-complexes of AIC of Ukraine under market conditions;

- development of new competetive, high-productive varieties and hybrids of fodder beet, cereals, grain-legume crops, groat crops and grasses, roct chicory, honey Stevia; working out technologies of their mechanized growing and seed production, realization of seed of high reproduction and Stevia seedlings.