Mykolaivska State Agricultural Research Station of the Institute of Irrigated Agriculture of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Ukraine

Main directions of activity:
- working out the priorities of further agricultural production sphere of the region at the base of new organizational structure of agricultural production based on the private property on land and other production means;
- researches and developments in the field of natural sciences; agriculture and agroecology;
- breeding and seed-growing of cereal, oil, industrial and vegetable crops (increasing the areas and volumes of the elite seeds);
- creation and handing over to the State variety-testing the varieties of forage herbs;
- agroecological monitoring at the base of the long-term stationary trials;
- development, application and improvement of existing energy-saving cultivation technologies of cereal, oil crops in the Steppe Zone;
- development of the ecologically safe land-use models and agroecology models, which should provide prevention of soil deterioration, increase of agroecosystems productivity;
- development of the perspective forage production and usage technologies based on the high-productive varieties and hybrids of forage and fodder crops, their cultivation technologies, increase of pasture areas, new technological methods of forage storage and provision;
- working out appropriate ways of the irrigated lands usage under the reforms;
- animal husbandry – revive of the cattle and pigs, foundation of breeding centers and farms.