HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL STATION​

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The history of the "Agricultural Experimental Station of Cotton and Melon Growing" LLP begins with the establishment of the Central Executive Committee and Council of People's Commissars Resolution dd. July 12, 1927 on the Pakhtaaral farm territory of the experimental irrigation station, which was engaged in the soil examination throughout the farm territory, the development and refinement of the cotton farming techniques on the Hungry steppe soils subject to salinization.​

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• The year 1932. The Experimental Irrigation Station has been transformed into Kazakh Republican Cotton and Alfalfa Experimental              Station under the Central Asia Research Institute on Cotton (Sredaz NIHI).

 

• The year 1951. In connection with development of land and organization of new areas in the South Kazakhstan region (Illichevsk, Kirov,     Kyzylkum), the activities of the Kazakh Republican Cotton and Alfalfa Experimental Station has been expanded, as a result the                   experimental station has been reorganized into PakhtaaralExperimental Zonal Integrated Station of the All-Union Order of Lenin                 Research Institute on Cotton (Soyuz NIHI), by the Decree of the USSR Council of Ministers dd. July 30, 1951 and the relevant Order of     the Ministry of Cotton of USSR dd. August 8, 1951.

• The year 1959. In connection with the establishment of the Kazakh Academy of Agricultural Sciences, the experimental station has been   greatly expanded and transformed into Republican Experimental Station with two control stations in Turkestan and Kaplanbek                     (Saryagash region).

• The year 1963. Because of transfer of the cotton-growing areas (Maktaaral, Dzhetysai, Kirov regions) in the south of the Kazakh SSR to    the Uzbek SSR, the Republican Experimental Station has been re-transferred to the All-Union Order of Lenin Research Institute on            Cotton (Soyuz NIHI), Tashkent, Uzbek SSR.

•  The year 1970. After transfer of south cotton-growing areasfrom the Uzbek SSR(Maktaaral, Dzhetysay, Kirov regions) to the Chimkent       region of the Kazakh SSR, the station has been renamed as “Pakhtaaral experimental cotton station” under the All-Union Order of Lenin     Research Institute on Cotton (Soyuz NIHI).

• The year 1989. The Pakhtaaral experimental cotton station has been transferred to the Research and Production Association “Chimkent”    under the Kazakh Academy of Agricultural Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan and renamed to the MaktaaralExperimental Cotton        Station. By this time, the station employed more than 100 people, including more than 30 scientists.

• The year1997. InaccordancewiththeGovernmentresolutionof 24 July № 1175 the Maktaaral Experimental Cotton Station has been              transfer red to the National Academic Center of Agricultural Research under the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of          Kazakhstan.

• The year 2002. Maktaaral experimental cotton station has been transferred to the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

• The year 2005. BytheGovernmentresolutiondd. November 22 №1150 the MaktaaralAgricultural Experimental Station has been                    reorganized into the State Branch Enterprise “Research Institute of Cotton the Republican State Enterprise “Southwest Research and        Production Center of Agriculture” under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

•  The year 2007. In accordance with the Resolution of the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan dd. May 22, 2007 No. 409 and the      decision of the Board of Directors of the Joint Stock Company “KazAgroInnovation” the Center has been transformed into the “Research    Institute of Cotton”Limited Liability Partnership under the Ministry of Agriculture of RK.

•  The year 2008. In accordance with decision of the Board of Directors of the “KazAgroInnovation”Joint Stock Company, the name of the       “Research Institute of Cotton” Limited Liability Partnership has been changed into the Kazakh Research Institute of Cotton Limited              Liability Partnership under the Ministry of Agriculture of RK.

•  The year 2015. According to the decision of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan dd. September 18, 2015, the               Kazakh Research Institute of Cotton Limited Liability Partnership has been transferred to the newly established non-profit joint stock           company National Agricultural Research and Education Center under the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

•  2020. According to the in-person meeting of the Board of Directors of NJSC "NANOTS" dated May 5, 2018, Protocol No. 10 "On some issues of optimization of subsidiaries of NJSC "NANOTS"", it was decided to "Change the name from LLP" Kazakh Research Institute of Cotton Growing "to LLP" Agricultural Experimental cotton and melon growing station. On August 21, 2020, Kazakh Research Institute of Cotton Growing LLP was renamed into Agricultural Experimental Station of Cotton Growing and Melon Growing LLP.

"Agricultural Experimental Station of Cotton and Melon Growing" LLP  includes a head unit (Turkestan region, Maktaaral district, Atakent) and Shardara Branch (Turkestan region,, Shardara district, Uzyn-Ata village), which carry out scientific and research works on cotton, melon and perennial grasses, have operational relationship with local government, public institutions and cotton agroformations of the Republic.

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