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FARM Activity in Sumy Oblast Sumy Agricultural Extension Service Sumy Agricultural Extension Service One of four agricultural extension service offices under the FARM Program, Sumy Agricultural Extension Service priorities are;
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Contact The capital of Sumy oblast is the city of Sumy. The area of Sumy Oblast is 23,800 square kilometers or 3.9% of Ukraine’s territory which ensures it 16th place among Ukrainian Oblasts. Sumy borders Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Poltava oblasts and is also bordered on the eastern side by Russia. Sumy is administratively and territorially broken into 18 districts. The population of the oblast is 1,299,700. Sumy Oblast agriculture specializes in growing grain, sugar beet, meat and milk cattle breeding. Deep black soil constitutes 56% of land. Sumy Oblast is situated on the boundaries of two geographical zones - Polissia and Lisostep. Polissia has turf-podsolic soil and Lisostep - deep black humus soil. These black soils and dark grey podsolic soils - the most fertile soils of the world - constitute 74% of all arable lands. Climate conditions allow having high yields of grain, legumes, groats, vegetables and forage. As to conditions for growing such important technical plants as sugar beet, hemp, flax, Sumy Oblast is one of the leading regions of Ukraine. Cultivated lands make up 52.2% of the general area of tillable lands, agricultural land - 72.9%. Information taken from the Basic Study of Sumy Oblast Completed Project "Development of an Extension Course at the Sumy National Agrarian University" Sumy National Agrarian University (Sumy, Ukraine) in partnership with Extension Division at University of Saskatchewan (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan) with the aim to create and deliver professional development program on ‘extension program planning models’ to a selected group of faculty at SNAU. Professors received knowledge and skills for the development of extension course for the post-graduate students. Combined educational method were used by the University of Saskatchewan with the purpose to interchange knowledge that include lections, discussions, practical experience, search of Internet sources, research challenges and practical studying. Click here to read the final report summary for this project |
