Field of professional activity: scientific, agricultural, fruit growing, soil science, vegetable growing, agrochemistry, viticulture.

Goals and objectives of the educational program:

The goal is to train specialists who are competitive in the labor market with in-depth knowledge of fruit and vegetable growing and agro-soil science, who are able to formulate and solve scientific and practical problems at the intersection of sciences in a timely manner, and successfully carry out research, pedagogical and managerial activities in various institutions of the relevant profile.

The objectives of the educational program are:

• implementation of scientific, practical and pedagogical activities in universities that train personnel;
• to promote the ability to formulate and solve scientific and practical problems at the intersection of sciences in a timely manner, to successfully carry out research and management activities in various institutions of the appropriate profile;
• to ensure the acquisition of fundamental knowledge at the intersection of biology, chemistry guaranteeing their professional mobility in the real developing world;
• acquisition by students of the skills of organizing and conducting scientific research and obtaining the necessary foundation for continuing scientific work in doctoral studies;
• development of the need for self-improvement and self-development by students, instilling skills of independent creative mastery of new knowledge throughout their active life;
• obtaining by students the necessary minimum knowledge in the field of university pedagogy and psychology, practical experience in teaching in educational institutions.

Objects of professional activity

• Research and production centers of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, GorKOMzem, territorial and land committees;
• Committees for the protection of the environment and natural resouces, republican, regional and district centers  «Agrochemical services»;
• Farms and peasant farms, private production cooperatives, joint-stock companies, limited liability partnerships, etc.;
• territorial departments of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan;
• agriculturalcolleges,universities,institutes.

During the training, students have the opportunity to undergo professional practice with further employment at such enterprises as:»Baiserke Agro» LLP, «Alem agro holding» LLP, «Kazakh Research Institute of Fruit and Vegetable Growing» LLP, «Kazakh Research Institute of Soil Science and Agrochemistry named after U.U.Uspanov» LLP, «Scientific and Production Center of Microbiology and Virology» LLP, «Kazakh Research Institute of Agriculture and Plant Growing» LLP, «Kazakh Scientific Research Institute of Plant Protection and Quarantine named after ZhazkenZhiembayev» and others.

Types of professional activity

• organizational and technological - organization of production, placement of planting of fruit and vegetable crops, provision of planting material, storage, processing and marketing of products and agrochemical service and soil works on the scale of the district, region, republic;
• production and management - preparation of crop rotation schemes in vegetable growing, fruit nursery and protected ground, testing and implementation of advanced technological techniques that allow to obtain high yields of fruit, berry and vegetable crops and organize storage, processing and marketing of products;
• production and management - testing and introduction into agricultural production of advanced technologies for the use of fertilizers in the context of individual farms, taking into account the level of effective and potential soil fertility, biological characteristics of crops, properties of fertilizers and other factors determining the effectiveness of fertilizers;
• experimental research - conducting production testing of new varieties and methods of cultivation of fruit and vegetable crops, staging and conducting vegetation, field and production experiments in soil and climatic zones of the Republic of Kazakhstan to assess the effects of various types of fertilizers and meliorants;
• financial and economic - calculation of financial and labor resources for the production, storage and sale of fruit and vegetable products;
• consulting – consulting of specialists and workers engaged in the field of fruit and vegetable growing and agro-soil science;
• landscape design;
• farm planning.

Functions of professional activity

• analysis of scientific and technical information and special literature, achievements of domestic and foreign agricultural science;
• selection of optimal agricultural landscapes for the cultivation of vegetable and fruit crops;
• preparation of soil maps and agrochemical cartograms for the production of fruit and vegetable crops;
• organization of work on the cultivation of fruit and vegetable crops, taking into account the main environmental and economic factors;
• selection of optimal ways of using the grown crop and their effective use, etc.

Typical tasks of professional activity

• ncrease in species and varietal diversity of fruit and berry, vegetable crops;
• the use of advanced technologies for the cultivation of fruit and berry and vegetable crops;
• rational use of the ecological potential of territories to obtain planned harvests of fruit and vegetable crops;
• ensuring environmental cleanliness and quality of fruit and vegetable products in accordance with the requirements of international standards;
• reduction of losses during storage, processing and sale of fruit and vegetable products;
• crop yield forecasting;
• definition of garden-suitable lands.

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