The Scientific Research Institute of Vegetable-Growing Head: Fuad Mamedov Pirshagy, Sovkhoz-2, Baki, 370098, Azerbaijan Tel/Fax: +(994 12) 97 21 36 Ex situ germplasm conservation: Vegetable-melon crops, green vegetables, spicy crops and potato Institute Code (FAO): AZE005

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Founded in 1965 to provide the farms with high-quality seeds and apply scientific achievements in industry. In 1994 the "Terevez tokhum" Scientific and Industrial Association was founded on the basis of the Institute and its zonal experimental and control stations.
The first priority trends in the work of the Institute are to create a scientific basis of vegetable-growing, water-melon, melon and gourd growing, and potato-growing, to grow new high-yielding varieties, to substantiate new approaches to the development of seed-growing, and progressive methods of cultivation with due regard for the soil-climatic peculiarities of different zones of the republic.
The Association numbers 216 employees of which four are Doctors and thirty-three are Candidates of science.
Since the establishment of the Institute seven theses for a doctor's degree and 7 candidate dissertations have been defended.
There are eleven creative laboratories functioning at the Institute, i.e. those of selection, seed-growing, protected soil, agrotechnics, plant protection, agrochemistry, physiology and biochemistry, crop rotation, mechanization, potato-growing, storage and processing; two sectors, i.e. those of information and introduction, and immunity; three zonal control stations (Lenkaran, Kusarchai and Tauz); two control stations (Masally and Shamkir); the Absheron subsidiary experimental farm. In recent times, it coordinated its work with the All-Russian Institutes of Plant-Growing, Plant Protection, Selection, Seed-Growing, Vegetables, Vegetable-Farming, Potato-Farming; the Moldavian Scientific institutes of Irrigation-Based Farming, and Vegetable-Growing; and the Institutes of the National Academy of Sciences of the Azerbaijan Republic.
The workers of the Institute have grown more than 30 varieties, 24 of which have been zonally distributed. 10 varieties undergo state testing, the methods of growing these varieties have also been worked out. More than 30 specialized farms of the republic annually introduce high-yielding varieties, which take up the area of 200000 hectares, and use the recommendations on the methods of their growing. The scientists of the Institute have received author's certificates for more than 30 inventions and rationalization proposals.
The scientists of the Association has published 10 volumes of the proceedings, monographs, collections, booklets, agrorules and articles.