The Scientific Research Institute of Fodder, Meadows and Pastures Head: Sardar Aliyev Khirdalan 58, Ashaghy Guzdek, Baku, 373258, Azerbaijan Tel: +(994 12) 43 9627 Ex situ germplasm conservation: Grasses and forage legumes Institute Code (FAO): AZE006

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Date of Foundation: 1969
In 1996 the "Azeryemchilik" Scientific-Industrial Association was established on the basis of this Institute and its facilities.See The basic task of scientific activities of the Institute is to work out a scientific basis and methods of fodder production intensification and to create a solid fodder basis of cattle breeding.
First priority trends in the work of the Institute are to intensify field fodder production, to improve meadow and pasture cultivation, to improve selection and fodder seed-growing, to elaborate a technology of fodder crop harvesting, laying in and preserving, to work out the methods of raising the quality of fodder and lessening its losses.
The Institute has 98 workers of which one is a Doctor and 14 are Candidates of science. There are three departments and two laboratories. Generally, the workers of the Institute take postgraduate course and defend their theses on a competitive basis to raise the level of their professional skill. Since the date of the establishment of the Institute 15 candidates of science have been trained.
About 40 methodical recommendations devised by the research workers of the Institute have found their practical application. Until recently the Institute carried out some joint research work with the head and branch regional institutes of the former USSR.
The following is to be referred to the achievements of the Institute: the study of meadowlands, the geobotanical investigation and introduction of a passport system for winter pastures of the Gobustan tract and the Ajinaur steppe, the elaboration of a scientific basis of intensive fodder production in arable lands, the use of reaped and intermediate fodder crops, the rise in crop capacity to get protein from perennial and annual crops, the creation of new high-yielding varieties of leguminous and cereal fodder crops as well as fodder semi-shrub plants (twigs), and the solution of a number of problems concerning the technology of fodder preparation and use.
The workers of the "Azeryemchilik" Association have published 11 collections of proceedings, 50 books and booklets, more than 50 methodical recommendations, and 500 scientific articles most of which have been published abroad.