ABSTRACT

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ABSTRACT

The important source of the pear assortment renovation in most of Ukraine’s regions is introduction of new cultivars. When establishing pear orchards a special attention should be paid to the selection of cultivars because it is just they that play a decisive role in the creation of a high-productive orchard and the entire complex of measures concerning

tending, protection from pests and diseases is directed to support and securing of optimum conditions contributing to the display of all the cultivar potential possibilities. Therefore, without detailed study of the cultivars economic and biological characteristics in research institutions it is impossible to introduce them in production under the concrete soil and climatic conditions.