In 2016 Company MAIS celebrates the 25th anniversary of work on Ukrainian seed market and the 20th anniversary of holding the scientific and practical activities for the agrarians. This year celebration will be remembered for a new format of the activity – “seminar-quest”.
Company MAIS held a so-called contest, and the winners received useful prizes – tablet computers. The essence of this activity was to encourage farmers to communicate and to combine their experience, logic, speed of thinking and intuitive decision making.
The participants were given three tasks. The fist one was to define the hybrid with maximum yields in terms of 14% humidity. The second task was to choose the most “dry” hybrid, i.e. the product with the lowest moisture level and to specify the percentage. The third task was to calculate the economic value of a hybrid: the ratio of productivity to the humidity.
The farmers supported the idea and actively engaged in a game of “guess the yield”.
The winners were Andrii Griaznov, (Donetsk oblast), Ihor Zlydniov (Dnipropetrovsk oblast), Serhii Plahtii (Dnipropetrovsk oblast).
“Guessed the yield correct to within a hundredweight. The 30 years practice and experience in agriculture helped”, – says the farmer Serhii Plahtii.
During the event, the representatives of the agricultural enterprises and farms from the southern regions of Ukraine had the opportunity to see the harvesting in field, and estimate the moisture content and yield from one hectare visually.
“This is our first experience when together with information, we show the combine harvest of our product. And here, in the field, everyone can determine the yield of corn in terms of dry grain”, says the Chairman of Company “MAIS” Victor Borysov.
Company MAIS has over 70 registered hybrids on the Ukrainian market, and the participants of the seminar had opportunity to witness the harvesting of 20 hybrids. Each hybrid has been grown on two parallel plots: in the natural humidity conditions and in conditions of additional drip irrigation.
Harsh south-eastern Steppe climatic conditions allow to test resistance to drought and drip irrigation allows to define the genetic yield potential of hybrids.
Company “MAIS” is satisfied with the results of the seminar and plans to use the following format in the future to communicate with agrarians in other regions.