Head of Department - PhD (Agricultural Sciences)
Vadim Solovey
Е-mail: gruntpokrov@ukr.net
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Leading researchers
Sergiy Kanivets - PhD (Agricultural Sciences), Senior Researcher
Volodymyr Velychko - Professor, Doctor of agricultural Sciences, Corresponding Member of NAAS of Ukraine
Main research activities
- Diagnosis and classification of soils.
- Mapping of soils.
- Assessment of soil fertility.
- Zoning of soil.
- Parameterization of soil and ecological relationships.
- Evaluating the suitability of soils for organic farming.
Main scientific results
- Parametric diagnostics of above the type level of soil classification
- Parametric relationship between content of physical clay and total chemical composition of soil
- Genetic environmental-substantive classification of soils in Ukraine on the parametric basis.
- Procedure of large-scale survey of soil cover of Ukraine
- Maps “Soils of Ukraine” (1: 1,430,000) and “ Soils of Kherson region, environmental resources and normative productivity of crops” (1: 200 000);
- Assessment system for soil agricultural quality by agro-soil potentials of natural and effective fertility
- Natural content of phosphorus in soils depending on their genesis
- Natural mechanism of slope soils protection from water erosion
- Soil-ecological zoning of Ukraine
- Soil zoning by suitability for organic farming in Ukraine
Publications
- Polupan M.I., Solovey V.B., Velichko V.A. Soil Classification in Ukraine. K: Agricultural Science, 2005.
- Determinant of environmental and genetic status and soil fertility in Ukraine / M.I.Polupan, V.B.Solovey, V.I.Kissel, V.A.Velichko. Kyiv: Koloobih, 2005.
- Polupan M.I., Baliuk S.A., Solovey V.B., Velichko V.A., Volkov P.O. Natural mechanism of slope soils` protection from water erosion. / Ed. M.I.Polupan. Kyiv: Fenix, 2011.
- Atlas of soil suitability for organic farming in Ukraine (zonal aspects). Kharkiv: Smugasta typographiya, 2015.
- State Program “Large-scale Survey of Soil Cover in Ukraine” (scientific and organizational framework) / Ed. S.A. Baliuk, A.V. Kucher, V.B. Solovey. Kharkiv: Smugasta typographiya, 2015.
- National Program for Soil Protection in Ukraine / Ed. S.A Baliuk, V.V. Medvedev, M.M. Miroshnychenko. Kharkiv: Smugasta typographiya, 2015.
- The patent for utility model number 101351 from 10.09.2015. “Method of quantitative determination of above type level of soilforming.”
- Solovey V.B., Bilivets I.I. Guide of field tour for participants of IX Congress delegates of USSSA Conference 30.06-04.07.2014. Mykolaiv, 2014.
Basic services provided by the Department
- Soil and soil-agrochemical large-scale and detailed soil survey.
- Scientific examination of soil quality.
- Scientific substantiation of rational use of soil according to their ecological and genetic characteristics
