Uzbek-Russian conference "Combating soil degradation and adaptive crop production" in the format of a Round table with the support of the United Nations Development Program on November 29, 2025 in the city of Nukus (Uzbekistan).

On November 27-30, 2025, at the invitation of the Director of the Karakalpak Research Institute of Agriculture, Bekmurat Turdyshev, a delegation of the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Research University of ARRIAM consisting of V.N. Chebotar, Ph.D., and S.A.N. Patatkin, M.D., visited Uzbekistan to participate in the Uzbek-Russian conference "Combating Soil Degradation and Adaptive Crop Production" in the Round table format. supported by the United Nations Development Program on November 29, 2025 in the city of Nukus (Uzbekistan). The purpose of this event was to develop agreed prospects for Uzbek-Russian cooperation in the field of combating soil degradation and adaptive crop production, where special hopes are placed on microbiological methods of combating soil degradation and leveling abiotic stressors in the Aral Sea region.
The round table was attended by Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor E.B. Dedova, Federal Scientific Center for Hydraulic Engineering and Land Reclamation named after A.N. Kostyakov, PhD A.S. Sorokin and PhD T.G. Kalnin, Faculty of Soil Science of Lomonosov Moscow State University, PhDN.A. Mishchenko, All-Russian Research Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Supply Systems "Raduga", Candidate of Agricultural Sciences D.M. Marchenko and Candidate of Agricultural Sciences S.V. Podgorny, ANTS "Donskoy". The Uzbek side was attended by O.G.Sultanova, Ph.D., Department of Physical Geography and Hydrometeorology, Berdakh Karakalpak State University, Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences. Dr.Utambetov, NGO Grain and Rice, H.Khasanov, Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences, Head of the National Genbank of Uzbekistan, Ph.D. in Economics A.Kurbanov, Karakalpak Institute of Agriculture and Agrotechnology, Ph.D. in Agricultural Sciences A. Myrzambetov, International Innovation Center of the Aral Sea region. V.K.Chebotar made a presentation "The possibilities of microbiology in the process bioremediation and agricultural use of saline soils", and A.N. Patatkin with the report "Bacterial preparations for improving nutrition and increasing plant resistance to abiotic stresses". The discussions at the Round Table were held in an interested, friendly atmosphere, and as a result, a declaration of mutual interest in cooperation and the preparation of joint projects on the subject of the Round Table was adopted. The telegram channel Roundtable_NUKUS_2025 is organized. All presentations are posted on the channel and those who wish can join its work.