MECHANIZATION IN AGRICULTURE
Historical research of the beginning of developments in the field of agrochemical services for agro-industrial production at the UNDIMESGU in the middle of the twentieth century
- 1 National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
Abstract
Agrochemical services for agricultural production have one of the main components related to the application of mineral fertilizers to the soil. Therefore, it is an important factor in significantly increasing the yield of crops. At the same time, not only the types of mineral fertilizers used and the dose of their application have a significant impact on the yield, but also the machines and devices that apply them. The Ukrainian Research Institute of Mechanization and Electrification of Agriculture (UNDIMESG) began to study this scientific and technical problem in depth in the middle of the last century. One of the founders of this area of scientific and design activity is rightfully considered to be Candidate of Technical Sciences, Honored Agricultural Engineer of Ukraine, a student of Academician Petro Vasylenko – Sokolov V. M. But from the very beginning of his work at UNDIMESGU, this scientist worked fruitfully in the field of soil cultivation, carefully studying the coulter systems of seeders, active milling cultivators, and developing designs for tractor trailers, including spreaders and distributors of agricultural materials. Later, these developments were used to create mineral fertilizer spreaders, when the institute had already established a scientific laboratory for the application of mineral fertilizers and chemical ameliorants. Since then, the scientific school created by V. Sokolov has successfully researched these processes of agrochemical maintenance, which made it possible to create new theories that are recognized worldwide, to obtain a large number of patents for inventions in Ukraine, and to develop and implement numerous designs of machines for applying mineral fertilizers into mass production. This scientific research and the first design developments that began almost 70 years ago at UNDIMESGU still bear the marks of that thorough approach, when everything that is researched must be implemented in modern high-tech agriculture.
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