An event dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the birth of Asad Musayev was held at the RICH

An event dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the birth of Asad Jannat oghlu Musayev, an outstanding breeder scientist who enriched the treasury of world agricultural science, was held at the Agricultural Scientific Research Institute. Rafail Guliyev, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Agriculture, Imran Jumshudov, Head of Plantation Organization and Monitoring Department, Farman Karimov, Deputy Director, Anar Jafarov, Director of Agrarian Innovation Center, Javanshir Talai, Head of Department of Agrarian Innovation Center, Vugar Salimov, Director of Viticulture and Winery ETI, Vugar Salimov, Asad Musayev's family members, were present at the event and other guests attended.

The event was declared open by the director of RICH, Faig Khudayev, with an introductory speech, and the memory of Asad Musayev was commemorated with a minute of silence. Then the chief of staff of the Ministry of Agriculture, Rafail Guliyev, gave a detailed speech about the prominent breeder scientist Asad Musayev, and talked about his services in the development of grain growing in the republic. Then an obituary and a video about the scientist were shown.

It should be noted that Asad Jannat oghlu Musayev was born on January 8, 1938 in the village of Okchuoglu, Amasiya district of the Republic of Armenia, which is historically the ancient Turkish land, in a peasant family. He entered Yerevan Agricultural Technical College and graduated with honors in 1957. In 1957, he entered the agronomy faculty of the Azerbaijan Agricultural Institute and graduated in 1962 with the specialty of agronomist. In 1962-1964, he actively participated in the study of the soil cover of the Kur-Araz lowland, especially Sabirabad, Salyan, Neftchala, as well as Siyazan, Devachi regions, in the Baku Soil Expedition of the Ministry of Agriculture, first as a soil engineer, and then as a team leader. Starting from 1964, A. Musayev, who began to deal with the problems of the development of grain growing in the republic, conducted extensive research at the RICH in the direction of creating more productive, high grain quality, non-dormant, disease-resistant grain varieties and seed breeding. In 1969, he was awarded the title of Candidate of Agricultural Sciences by defending his thesis on "Formation of varietal mixtures in seed crops and ways to prevent it". In 1967, A. Musayev worked as the director of Absheron Base Station of the RICH, and in 1970-1972, he worked as the director of the Tartar Regional Experimental Station. Since 1973, he worked as a senior scientist at the RICH, and since 1976, he worked as the head of the "Breeding and Seeding" department. He managed to collect more than 20 thousand gene pool of a number of wheat, barley, corn, soy, bean, pea, triticale plants in more than forty years in the "Selection and seed breeding" department, which he headed at the institute. under his leadership and direct participation, more than 90 varieties of cereal and leguminous plants were created and submitted to the State Commission for Testing and Protection of Breeding Achievements (now the Agrarian Services Agency), 47 of which have been regionalized and included in the State Register of Breeding Achievements and patented. Currently, these varieties have large cultivated areas in the republic. A. Musayev is the author of regionalized 32 durum and bread wheat varieties, which are considered the main strategic plant in terms of ensuring the country's food security.

The late scientist was awarded with the Order of Honor, the honorary title of "Memorial Agricultural Worker" and a personal scholarship of the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.

Asad Jannat oghlu Musayev died on January 21, 2018 at the age of 80.

Rest in peace!