Head Dr. Almantas Ražukas, almantas.razukas@lammc.lt, +370 5 264 5439; +370 5 264 5430. All staff
Research topics
- Effects of various cultivated and natural plant communities on fertility processes of light-textured soils
- Conservation of unproductive soils; studies on the influence of anthropogenic factors on soil organic matter content and quality
- Investigation of mineral and organic fertilisers (manure, green manure, straw, sapropel) on crop yield and its quality and soil fertility, plant nutrition diagnostics
- Research on leaching of soil chemical elements under ecologically sustainable crop conditions, effects of organic fertilisers on migration of nutrients in a sandy loam-textured Haplic Luvisol
- Cultivation of energy crops for biofuel using sewage sludge compost
- Plant phenological observations in different areas of Lithuania. Research into phenological regularities
- Potato breeding and propagation of new varieties by biotechnological methods
- Breeding of lupine and buckwheat. Propagation of new varieties of these plants
- Research on potato diseases, forecasts, recommendations for protective measures
- Crop research in various agricultural systems in low productivity soils of South-Eastern Lithuania