On October 16, 2024, Viktor Evgenievich Tsyganov, Director of ARRIAM, and Vladimir Kuzmich Chebotar, Head of the Laboratory of Microbial Drug Technology, met with Raushan Khamzaevna Ramazanova, Chairman of the Board of the Kazakh Uspanov Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry, on cooperation between the institutes. As a result of the meeting, an agreement was signed on cooperation in the field of research activities in the following main areas:
- development and implementation of a joint program and projects in the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
- providing methodological, advisory and other assistance in the implementation of joint projects related to innovation;
- consulting and information services for agricultural producers;
- organization of joint seminars, webinars, conferences, exhibitions of mutual interest;
- joint preparation and holding of training seminars, internships for the development of personnel for the field of agriculture and crop production.
- preparation and publication of joint scientific publications.
Earlier, in 2023, the staff of ARRIAM and the Kazakh Research Institute of Plant Physiology named after I. U. Uspanov published reviews in the Russian Journal of Plant Physiology: V.K. Chebotar, E.P. Chizhevskaya, O.V. Honina, R.D. Kostitsyn, A.A. Kurmanbayev, B. Mukhambetov, V.N. Pishik, M.E. Baganova, N.G. Lapenko. Biotechnological potential of halophytes and their microbiomes for agriculture in Russia and Kazakhstan. Russian Journal of Plant Physiology, 2023, Volume 70:183. DOI: 10.1134/S1021443723602513