The Institute of Fruit Growing offers consumers a variety and technologies modified for local conditions for growing ordinary lingonberries in their personal garden plots under a manufacturing agreement or an outsourcing agreement and is looking for partners interested in a distribution services agreement.

Ordinary lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea L.). Heather family (Ericaceae)

Ordinary lingonberry was introduced into cultivation in 1966 in Sweden, where the first lingonberry plantation was established on an area of 5 hectares.

Ordinary lingonberry is a perennial evergreen erect shrub 10–40 cm high. Aboveground shoots are of two types - formation and branching. The leaves of lingonberry are leathery, dark green above, shiny, lighter below, matte, with resinous dark brown glands. The roots are located mainly in the upper layer of soil (at a depth of 2–10 cm), do not have root hairs, but are equipped with mycorrhiza, which performs the function of absorbing water and nutrients. In addition to above-ground shoots, lingonberries form long underground shoots - rhizomes. The buds of lingonberries are pale pink, the flowers are white. The flowers are collected in a one-sided drooping raceme. The fruit is a four- and sometimes five-lobed berry.

Read more about growing technology on the Institute’s website here (in Russian).

The description of the technology may contain, at the Customer’s request, recommendations for growing lingonberries in local conditions.

The main directions of scientific and scientific-innovative activity of the Institute:
- selection and introduction of fruit, berry, nut crops, grapes and their rootstocks;
- creation of a bank of genetic resources of fruit, berry, nut crops and grapes for the purpose of practical use in breeding, production and for interstate exchange or collection;
- development and improvement of technologies for the production, storage and processing of fruits and berries;
- diagnostics of viral, virus-like and bacterial pathogens and creation of basic collections of virus-free plants;
- development and improvement of technologies and production of improved planting material;
- selective improvement of breeding and productive qualities of bees and improvement of technologies for their maintenance and use;
- development of republican standards for planting material, raw materials of fruit and berry crops and products of their processing;
- development of scientific and economic forecasts and comprehensive programs for the development of fruit growing and beekeeping in the Republic of Belarus;
- design and laying of gardens and berry fields;
- implementation of patent-licensing and inventive work, conducting a wide promotion of the results of scientific research through information, advertising and publishing activities.

The Institute of Fruit Growing has concluded more than 80 agreements on scientific cooperation with fruit growing institutions from 23 countries of the world.

In addition to broad international cooperation, the institute actively interacts with research institutions of the republic.
In accordance with the order of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus dated 09.04.2007 No. 16, agreements on scientific support in the field of fruit growing were concluded between the Institute of Fruit Growing and RUE "Grodno Zonal Institute of Plant Growing of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus", RUE "Brest OSHOS of NAS of Belarus", RUE "Gomel OSHOS" of the NAS of Belarus.

The employees of the institute consider the education of students and schoolchildren to be an important part of educational work. The Institute signed an agreement on creative cooperation with the Belarusian State Agricultural Academy, as well as an agreement on creative cooperation and patronage with the State Educational Institution Borovikovskaya Secondary School of the Dzerzhinsky District. For wider coverage and promotion of the institute's developments among the population of the country, an agreement on creative cooperation was concluded with MediaPark LLC, which provides for the creation of special headings for the television program "Season of Luck" on TV channels.

Consumers interested in purchasing the variety and technologies for growing ordinary lingonberries on their personal garden plots, modified for local conditions under a manufacturing agreement or an outsourcing agreement.

Partners interested in purchasing the variety and technologies for growing ordinary lingonberries in their personal garden plots, modified for local conditions under a distribution services agreement.