BREEDING OF EARLY MATURING SOYBEAN VARIETIES IN EAST KAZAKHSTAN

Since 2001, the East Kazakhstan Research Institute of Agriculture has been conducting the work aimed at the development and study of the collection of ultra-early and early soybean accessions in order to obtain new early-maturing and high-yielding cultivars adapted to the soil and climate environment of East Kazakhstan Region. As a result of breeding efforts embracing the whole scheme from hybridization and individual selection to routine and competitive trials, the new soybean cultivars ‘Birlik KV’ (2014) and ‘Vostochnaya Krasavitsa’ (2016), with earlier maturity and higher yield than the references, were submitted for State Variety Trials of the Republic of Kazakhstan. In 2017, the cultivar ‘Birlik KV’ was approved for cultivation in East Kazakhstan Region.