• 13 March 2025
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A contract was signed with the International Innovation Center for Aral Sea Basin of Uzbekistan

Associate Professor of the educational program Biology, Geography and Chemistry at Korkyt ata Kyzylorda University, Candidate of Biological Sciences Rakhat Kurmanbayev and member of the Board of Trustees of Korkyt ata endowment Corporate Foundation Elena Kogai visited Nukus, Uzbekistan, during March 11-13.

During the visit, a memorandum of cooperation was signed between Korkyt Ata Kyzylorda University and the International Innovation Center for Aral Sea Basin under the Ministry of Ecology, Environmental Protection and Climate Change of the Republic of Uzbekistan. The management of the center considered the possibilities of organizing and implementing bilateral joint work.  

"The main purpose of our visit to Uzbekistan is to develop the work of the International Center for the Study of Ecosystems of Aral Sea Basin at the educational institution.  We got acquainted with the work of the International Innovation Center for Aral Sea Basin in the city of Nukus. During the visit, we received extensive information about the implementation of international projects, the genetic bank of plants, experimental species cultivated on an area of 24 hectares, the work of an in vitro cultivation laboratory, a seed warehouse, training platforms for farmers and young people interested in gardening, and ways to obtain abundant harvests of fruit trees on saline soils,” said Rakhat Kurmanbayev..

The International Innovation Center of the Aral Sea Region was established by the government in 2018 and is aimed at measures to counteract the adverse environmental factors of the Aral Sea region. Here, special attention is paid to the use of innovative technologies in the field of crop production of the developed countries of Europe, Asia in the Aral Sea region, and the widest use of scientifically proven, drought-adapted, low-water, high-yielding, and industrially suitable plant species.

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