The Institute of Plant Protection
2 Mira St., 223011 Priluki, Minsk Region
Tel./Fax: +375 (17) 509 23 39
e-mail: belizr@tut.by

Director
Sergei Vladimirovich Soroka, D.Sc. in Agriculture, Associate Professor
Tel.:+375 (17) 509 23 38
The Institute of Plant Protection was founded in 1971.
The Institute of Plant Protection is a leading research and methodological center coordinating researches on agricultural crops protection against pests, diseases and weeds. The effort of the researchers is directed towards reducing harmfulness of phytophagous organisms, phytopathogens and weeds in agrocenoses and obtaining high yield of crops.
Research directions: elaboration of scientific criteria of production and rational use of effective, environmentally friendly means of crop protection against pests based on the use of local raw material and microorganism strains; development and introduction in production of technologies of protection of cereals, fodder crops, industrial crops, vegetables, fruit and berry crops, potato from pests, diseases and weeds; development of methodological bases for environmental safety of plant protection systems; development of information technologies in plant protection; enhancement of methodological bases of phytosanitary monitoring of agricultural crops and forecast of pests’ development; development of resource saving environmentally friendly technologies of application of innovative chemical and biological means of plant protection; identification of the sources of crops’ resistance to dominant diseases; development of the techniques of pesticide application.
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