High performance laboratory at the State Agricultural University

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21 Jan. 2020 / 18:27

High performance laboratory at the State Agricultural University

After more than twenty years of expectations, students, masters and doctoral students from the State Agricultural University will be able to study in practical way and carry out research on irrigated agriculture and environmental engineering, on modern equipment. A high-performance laboratory was inaugurated today within the institution with the support of the United States Agency for Development, which provided 2.5 million lei for this purpose, reports Moldova 1.

Victor Bumbu is in the fourth year at the Faculty of Cadastre and law at the State Agricultural University. The young man says that after graduation, he wants to return to his native village - in the village of Tălpala, Ialoveni, where he can open a business in the field of irrigation.

"The laboratory existed before, but it was with outdated equipment. We have to be ahead of what is being done in the Republic, otherwise we are left behind. The graduating students, going in the real economy, must know everything new," says Liviu Volconovici, rector of the State Agricultural University.

For the purchase of the equipment, USAID has allocated 2.5 million lei.

"The purpose of this project is to train over 150 students and 30 engineers in this lab, supply local farmers with equipment that would make their work easier and help them get quality products," said Scott Hocklander, Head of USAID Mission in Moldova.

"If we want to get out with a cheaper product on the market, we must look for irrigation possibilities but it is also necessary for the country's food security. If we previously irrigated two hundred thousand ha of agricultural land, today we only irrigate 30 thousand ha,” says Mihai Machedon, State Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Regional Development and the Environment.

Of the 78 irrigation systems built during the Soviet period, ten were rehabilitated during the years 2010-2015 from the US Government funds under the Compact program.

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