Welcoming words were made by:

– Besarion Chokhoevich Meskhi – rector DSTU; – Irina Mikhailovna Donnik – Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vice President of the Russian Academy of Sciences; – Yuri Fedorovich Lachuga – Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academician-Secretary of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences; – Gennady Grigoryevich Matishov – Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Presidium of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Federal Research Center Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences”; – Svetlana Borisovna Sazhinskaya – Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Rostov Region; – Alexey Nikolaevich Beskopylny – Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs and International Activities of DSTU; – Viktor Ivanovich Pakhomov – Acting Director of the Donskoy Agrarian Research Center.

– The conference will allow you to orient yourself in new directions of development, exchange experience and coordinate joint actions. It is important to touch upon the issues of personnel training, cooperation of universities with scientific organizations, especially with the Russian Academy of Sciences, – said the rector of DSTU Besarion Meskhi. – DSTU, in turn, remains in the trend: the university participates in the Priority 2030 program, develops a world-class scientific and educational center in the agricultural sector.

The plenary session of the conference, which includes the opening and presentations of speakers, was held at the exhibition complex “DonExpocenter”.

The following shared their experience with the conference participants:

– Dmitry Vladimirovich Rudoy – Dean of the faculty “Agro-industrial”; – Elena Nikolaevna Ponomareva – Head of the Department of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Federal Research Center Southern Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences”; – Pyotr Alekseevich Elizarov – Brand Manager of Geringhoff; – Oleg Alexandrov – Director of Innovation, LLC “KZ “ROSTSELMASH”; – Elena Viktorovna Bakeeva – editor-in-chief of the journal “Bulletin of the Agroindustrial Complex”.

After listening to the reports, all participants of the conference continued to work remotely in 25 sections of various directions.

Following the results of the conference, a collection of scientific papers will be published, indexed by Scopus databases, Web of Science and the database of scientific publications of the RSCI. Currently submitted:

– more than 350 applications – Scopus, Web of Science; – 100 applications – RSCI; – 200 face-to-face reports; – 50 applications – advanced training.