The hop cultivation
department activities mainly deal with agrotechnology in hop gardens, advisory
services for growers and research in the field of hop agriculture, irrigation,
nutrition and fertilization. Among the main scientific and other specialist
activities are:
• Establishing of
parental cultures for hop reproduction using meristems, namely in the case of
Saaz variety (Osvald clone 31, 72 and 114) and in the case of hybrid varieties
(Sládek, Premiant, Agnus, Harmonie, Bor, Rubín).
• Evaluation of
climatic data in hop-growing areas; based on this, the need and extent of
irrigation is specified.
• Advisory
activities in terms of contracts for work dealing with hop growing technology,
its inspection in productive hop gardens in agricultural areas.
• Hop nutrition
using basic nutrients.
• Fertilizer
verification.
• Extra-root hop
nutrition application.
• Verification of
new types of supporting and growth substances on hop growing.
• Organization and
training of hop-pickers and hop dryer mechanics.
• Integrated system
of hop production.
• Hop growing on
low trellis.
• Organic hop
growing.
• Analysis of
research projects financially supported by the government (GACR, NAZV, MIT,MEYS).
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