MANS students attend field classes at the Marianowo Variety Testing Experimental Station

As in the previous years on June 06, 2024, students of the 4th semester of non-stationary engineering studies in Direction Agriculture together with members of the Polish Agronomic Society Branch of Łomż took part in field classes as part of “Days of Fields”

The field workshops were organized by the Variety Assessment Experimental Station in Krzyzewie and the Variety Assessment Experimental Plant in Marianowo.

Among the invited guests were: Member of the Polish Parliament Alicja Łebkowska-Gołas, Secretary of State at the MIRW MP at the Sejm; Nina Dobrzyńska – Director of the Department of Breeding and Plant Protection MRIRW; Prof. Dr. habil. Henryk Bujak – Director of COBORU, Ewa Kuligowska – Vice-voivoda Podlaski; Łukasz Prokorym – Marshal of Podlaskie Voivodeship; Lech Szabłowski – Starosta Łomżyński, Krzysztof Kozicki – Mayor of Piatnica Municipality; prof. MANS Dr. inż. Piotr Ponichtera – Proctor of MANS

Field exercises aimed at introducing students to the diversity of new crop varieties and their agrotechnology and conservation. The participants at the Polar Days were informed by the Director of SDOO in Krzyżewo, mgr inż. Arkadiusz Kalinowski on the history and activities of the Variety Assessment Experimental Station in Krzyzewie and Marianow.

The students listened to two lectures with great interest. The first lecture on 'Cereal problems' was given by Dr Ing. Raphael Marcinkowski is an employee of Strzelce Plant Breeding Sp. z o.o. The IHAR group. The second lecture on 'Integrated production in practice' was delivered by Michał Potręć - Head of the Integrated Certification Department. Production of plants Ecogarantia PTRE sp. z o.o.

In the official part, all participants in the Polar Days were introduced to the experimental cultivation of spring and winter cereals, potatoes and beans. The present representatives of the companies, who presented new products and their application in modern agriculture, shared the results of the experiments carried out at the SDOO site in Krzyzewo and Mariano.

In their free time, the students spoke with representatives of companies that presented a rich collection of cereals and other crops, new multi-component mineral fertilizers and presented their market offerings and practical agrotechnical solutions for specific crop cultivation.

We would like to thank all the organizers, and in particular the Director of SDOO Krzyzewo Mgr. Mr Arkadiusz Kalinowski and the Director of ZDOO Lukasz Żochowski, who was very kind to share his knowledge and experience in the field of agriculture and crop cultivation technology as well as the methodology of the experiments carried out, as well as for a common grill.

Field exercises were carried out in accordance with the curriculum of General Agriculture and Plant Breeding and Plant Breeding and Seedling

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