On December 23, 2016, the President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree "On the Announcement of 2017 as the Year of Science". The main goal of this decision is to increase the role of science in fulfilling the tasks of the country's social and economic development, creating favorable conditions for the preservation and development of scientific potential, forming the international image of Belarus as a country with a high level of intellectual and human capital.

Agency "Republican Forest Selection and Seed Center" is one of the leading organizations in the field of scientific research in forest selection and seed production, technologies for growing forest planting material with a closed root system, and microclonal reproduction of tree and shrub plant species (in vitro). In 2017, the research department plans to continue the scientific work begun in previous years, and to include in the active work to address the current issues of the industry in the supervised areas, both independently and jointly with other research institutions of the Republic of Belarus.

ПSchedule of events of rfssc to hold in 2017 The Year of science