Researchers of the St. Petersburg Federal Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (SPC RAS) demonstrated their developments at the international exhibition-festival "The Future is Routine" held in St. Petersburg. At the Center’s exhibition stand the methods of growing high-yielding crops for the production of feed were displayed.
"Today, an important problem is to provide a fodder base for livestock. The mentioned is absolutely necessary to get delicious milk and meat. In our fields within the non-chernozem zone we are growing crops, that as a rule grow in the southern regions of the country. So, annual drought-resistant and heat-loving crops are presented at our stand, for instance, sugar sorghum, sudanese grass and sorghum-sudanese hybrids. Even in our country they grow over 2.5 m, thereby ensuring high yields for the territory of the North-West of Russia," said Elena Shkodina, Senior Researcher at the Department of Feed Production and Crop Production of the Novgorod Research Agriculture Institute (branch of SPC RAS) in an interview for exhibition-festival organizers.
The central part of the SPC RAS stand: "Agrobiophotonics: technology of controlled vegetation of plants" was occupied by a large screen to broadcast the process of growing crops in the fields of the Novgorod Research Agriculture Institute. Including the one using a drone able to independentlty move over a certain area and treat the crops with a laser beam possessing special parameters. The exercised studies have shown that this procedure significantly increases the amount of nutrients in forage crops used in crop production.
Earlier, the SPC RAS researchers presented their developments for the agro-industrial complex at the Federal Educational Intensive: "Archipelago 2121" at the 30th International Exhibition-Fair "Agrorus".
INFO: The exhibition-festival "The Future is Routine" was held from November 7 - 19, was timed with the Year of Science and Technology and with the 100th anniversary of the amateur circles’ movement in Russia and is implemented as a part of the project "Integrator of the Amateur Circles’ Associations Movement of the National Technological Initiative". The exhibition events is a part of the Barcamp business conference "National Technological Revolution 20.35" and the festival "Children's Days" in St. Petersburg.