Agrochemistry magazine is 60 years old

Abstract

The article describes the history of the journal “Agrochemistry” for the period 1964–2023. The journal “Agrochemistry” was founded in 1964 on the initiative of Academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR S. I. Volfkovich, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR A. V. Sokolov, professors M. V. Katalymov, F. V. Turchin, etc. The journal became the first periodical academic publication on fundamental problems of agrochemistry and related disciplines in our country. Over the period of its existence, the journal has published more than 10 thousand articles. The published articles are grouped into the following main headings: “Fertilizers” (production, application, efficiency, transformations in the soil); “Soil fertility” (change under the influence of various factors); “Research methods”; “Agroecology” (combination of fertilizers, pesticides, soil treatment systems, crop rotation, environmental conditions); “Chemical plant protection” –later divided into “Pesticides” and “Ecotoxicology”; “Plant nutrition” (physiological-agrochemical research, the role of fertilizers in plant physiological processes, plant biochemistry and product quality); “Plant growth regulators”, “Agrochemical Service”; “Soil reclamation”; “Soil biology and biochemistry”, etc. In 2021 The Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences approved the Federal State Budgetary Scientific Institution “All-Russian Research Institute of Phytopathology” (FGBNU VNIIF) as a co-founder of the journal “Agrochemistry”.