MARGUS FRIEDENTHAL

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MARGUS FRIEDENTHAL Deputy Director
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• The Agricultural Research Centre (ARC) is a
  state agency that brings together laboratories,
  testing centres and departments carrying out
  different agri-environmental tasks.

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1. Providing of analytical, technical and
field-experimental service for the various state
surveillance, monitoring, evaluation, mapping etc
needs
TASKS
2. Contribution to the active cooperation with EU
networks
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LABORATORY OF AGROCHEMISTRY

• pH, totalN, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, B, Cu, Mn, organic
  carbon, evaluation of texture

• N, Ph, P, K, Ca, Mg, B, S, Cl, biuret,
  granulation,
• dry matter/moisture

• neutralizing value, granulation, Mg, Ca, moisture

• moisture, water holding capacity, pH, degree
• of decomposition, electrical conductivity

• organic matter/ash, pH, N, P, K, dry matter
• /moisture

DETERMINATION OF NITROGEN
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LABORATORY OF RESIDUES AND CONTAMINANTS

• from fruits and vegetables, cereals, feeding
  stuff,
• dairy and fishery products

• cereals, feeding stuff, foodstuff

• in cereals, in feeding stuff, soil, fertilisers,
  
• foodstuff, other plant materials

ICP FOR DETERMINATION OF MACRO- AND MICROELEMENTS
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PLANT PRODUCTION ANALYSES LABORATORY

• moisture, protein, falling member, wet gluten,
• baking test, intervention quality parametres,
  
• impurities

• moisture, oil content, chlorophyll, erucic acid,
  
• glucosinolates content, free fatty acids,
  acid
• value, protein etc

• determination of nutrial parametres and
• metabolic energy

• determination of quality
• parametres in crops

• determination of quality
• and energetical
• parametres

DETERMINATION OF WET GLUTEN
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LABORATORY OF PLANT HEALTH AND
MICROBIOLOGYPLANT HEALTH SECTOR

• identification of nematodes parasitizing on
  plants

• identification of diseases caused by fungi

• identification of insects in adult and larva
  stage
• of development

• identification of bacterial diseases from plant
• (potato ring-rot, potato brown-rot, fire
  blight)

• identification of virus diseases from potato,
  
• tomato,
• ornamental plants

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SEED TESTING LABORATORY
3 main areas of testing

• purity

• germination and viability

• seed health testing