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   Department History
  The Department was founded January 1, 2011, when two laboratories, the Laboratory of Soil Ecology and Biosaline Agriculture (it was established April 3, 1989 after the order of No. 37-k the South Branch of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, in accordance with the decree of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR) and the Laboratory of Agricultural Chemistry (it was established in 1969 after the order of the Southern Branch of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences), were consolidated. In it’s activity the Department is guided by the laws of Ukraine, the orders of Director of NSC "ISSAR named after O.N. Sokolovsky" and due to the votes of the Academic Council. The department is provided with the experts who have the appropriate certificate. The staff of the Department are: Chief of the Department, Chief Scientific Officer, Leading researchers (2), Senior Researchers (3), Researchers (4), Leading Engineers (5).
  From 1969 to 1996 Dr. Sc. Agr. Nosko, Boris S., was the Chief of the Laboratory. Under the guidance of Professor Nosko the agrochemical soil survey in the whole administrative regions of Ukraine were carried out, and the cartograms mobile phosphorus and potassium soil were elaborated. On the basis of these data, we developed agrochemical zoning of the agricultural zones of Ukraine. The results of the laboratory tests are widely used in the producing the agricultural products. They have been used in the zonal recommendations for the effective use of fertilizers and the scientific basis of agricultural production, as reflected in many monographs. Under the guidance of Professor Nosko the agronomic, agrochemical and agro-ecological evaluation of the efficiency of phosphate fertilizer for the most common and explored deposits was designed.
  From 1996 to 2011 Ph. Dr. Khristenko, Anatoly managed the Laboratory. Thereat four new Ukrainian National Standard methods for the determining the mobile phosphorus and potassium in the soil were worked out. An automated information database for the agrochemical soil properties was designed; the basic regularities for the dynamics of nutrients in the soil were studied. With the help of the theoretical justification of the process, a forecast of the evolution of phosphorus and potassium in the soil of Ukraine was made for 2005 and 2010 years.
  In 2011, the laboratory was transformed into the Department of Agricultural Chemistry by consolidation of two laboratories: agrochemicals and Biosaline Agriculture. Thereat until now Dr. Biol. Sci. Miroshnychenko, Mykola is the Chief of the Department. Today, the Department is engaged in a wide range of agricultural chemistry issues aimed to address the efficiency of fertilizers and soil conservation, the development of organic production of agricultural products and the mechanisms of its popularization in Ukraine, the diagnostics and monitoring of the soil quality in the traditional and alternative agriculture. As well the activity of the Department of Agricultural Chemistry aimed at (i) the establishing regularities of the soil fertility evolution in the modern conditions, (ii) the improving the methods of the diagnostics and forecasting the soil state, as well as (iii) the environmental aspects under the using of the fertilizers.