NEWS

On May 19, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, Minister of Agriculture and Food of Tatarstan Marat Zyabbarov visited the Kazan Research Center of the Russian Federation. During the visit, the minister got acquainted with the areas of scientific activity of the research center, examined laboratories specializing in biology, agriculture and chemistry, met with scientists and specialists, discussed the prospects for further cooperation between the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan and the FRC of the KazSC RAS.

In recent years, a shortage of moisture has been observed in the republic almost every year, which is accompanied by a long dry period, high daytime temperatures, a decrease in relative humidity and a low content of productive moisture in a meter layer of soil during critical periods of plant development. For barley, this is May and June, when plants form reproductive organs and intensively increase the vegetative mass. To form 1 kg of barley grain, plants require up to 12 mm of moisture.