More than 100 years of production and educational activities

Myronivka Experimental Station and its successor Myronivka Institute of Wheat were and remain not only the center of breeding science, but also a link between science and agribusiness. During 1920-50s the Myronivka Station introduced in area of its activity state projects, such as collective experiments on peasant lands; organization of a network of correspondent-researchers among peasant owners; chemicalization of agriculture (recommendations on the use of mineral fertilizers and agrochemical control of soils in farms); management of the house-laboratories (in three regions); implementation of the state decree on field-afforestation and grass rotation in the Steppe and Forest-Steppe regions of the European part of the USSR (in particular in Ukraine), etc. The works started at the Myronivka Research Station on the propaganda of agricultural knowledge and scientific achievements among agronomic employees and peasantry have been continuing at the Institute, in particular, exhibition activity (preparation of exhibits for exhibitions of various levels), organization of annual meetings of agronomists, seminars and advanced training courses for agriculture workers, generalization of best practices, economic substantiation of research results, introduction of scientific results (varieties) into farming, print production for agro-specialists (recommendations, leaflets, etc.), reception of delegations and excursions, as well as undergraduate practice at the institution. Since 1937, the Myronivka State Breeding Station was entrusted with the task of producing main grain seeds crops for several regions of Ukraine, being nowadays the main one in the production activities of the Institute. The station actively participated in all all-Union undertakings to provide scientific support for agricultural production, individual farms and the sustainable development of the country's agricultural sector. Such activity was continued by the Myronivka Institute. Myronivka Research Institute of Wheat Breeding and Seed Production has become an acknowledged center of breeding science in the system of Lenin All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences, where there were regular scientific-practical meetings, courses and seminars of regional, republican, and all-Union level. Agro-growers from different regions of Ukraine and the USSR came to get wheat seeds of Myronivka varieties. Myronivka varieties were widely cultivated in the then socialist countries. With Ukraine gaining independence, Myronivka scientists, in addition to new varieties, developed a number of technologies, in particular for farms, which were successfully introduced directly into agricultural production. The best traditions laid down at the station are preserved today. The Institute annually hosts International Field Days, training and advisory seminars and round tables for managers, agronomists and agricultural specialists, meetings of various levels, as well as advanced training courses, and produces printed methodological and promotional matters. Annually more than 100 licenses are issued for growing Myronivka varieties, which occupy 1.5 million hectares in Ukraine. Agreements on cooperation with seed companies of Hungary, Turkey, Moldova, and Belarus have been singed. New varieties are offered to farmers with full scientific support for their cultivation. Myronivka scientists monitor crops directly at farms and provide methodological consultations and recommendations.