The beginnings of Latvian Plant Protection Research Centre and its activities over a century
2013
Priekule, I., Latvian Plant Protection Research Centre, Riga (Latvia) | Rancane, R., Latvian Plant Protection Research Centre, Riga (Latvia) | Treikale, O., Latvian Plant Protection Research Centre, Riga (Latvia) | Vanaga, I., Latvian Plant Protection Research Centre, Riga (Latvia) | Apenite, I., Latvian Plant Protection Research Centre, Riga (Latvia)
The article provides an overview of the research directions and activities in plant protection carried out in Latvian Plant Protection Centre (LPPRC) over a century. On February 4, 1913, the Ministry of Agriculture ratified the statutes of the Association of Baltic Pest Control Station of Agricultural Crops; this date can be regarded as actual birthday of plant protection as the field of research in Latvia and in the whole Baltic Region. Despite different changes in legal status and name, the mission of the institution – identification of diseases and pests or weeds that cause problems to the development of crop plants, finding solutions for their control, testing of the new plant protection products, and, eventually, disseminate the information accumulated among agriculturists of Latvia – has remained unchanged over 100 years of its existence. Research topics have replaced one another, but they have always built on actual problems in agriculture and on the basis of knowledge already accumulated by the scientific community of the world. Since 1914, many projects have been implemented in collaboration with well-known producers of plant protection products in the world on the efficiency of their products under Latvian agro-climatic conditions. LPPRC has an important role in agriculture and in the local and international domain of science, which will be strengthened also in the future.
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