Dr. Mykola Kochiieru

ORCiD iD: 0000-0002-1986-9625
Tel. +370 603 61 682
E-mail: mykola.kochiieru@lammc.lt
Instituto al. 1, Akademija, LT-58344 Kėdainiai dist., Lithuania

Education 

2016–2020 PhD studies in Agronomy, Lithuanian Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry.
2010–2011 Master's degree in Engineering, Kherson State Agricultural University, Ukraine.
2006–2010 Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Kherson State Agricultural University, Ukraine.

Academic degree

2020 Doctor of Agricultural Sciences (Agronomy), dissertation “The effect of crop cover and soil water retention on physico-chemical and biophysical quality of soils of different origin”.

Research fields

• Soil water holding properties
• Soil physical and biophysical  properties
• Soil genesis

Position

Since 2023 Senior Researcher, Department of Soil and Crop Management, Institute of Agriculture, LAMMC.

Memberships and affiliations with professional organisations

• Member of Lithuanian Soil Society
• Member of Nordic Association of Agricultural Scientists (NJF)

Involvement in programmes and projects

International projects

• 2021–2024 Horizon 2020 Programme, project “Mechanisms underlying trade-offs between carbon sequestration, greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient losses in soils under conservation agriculture in Europe” (TRACE-Soils).

National projects

• Participation in the projects of the LAMMC long-term research programme “Productivity and Sustainability of Agricultural and Forest Soils”:

2023–2026 “The effect of sunflowers grown for green mass on crop rotation plants, segetal flora and soil properties”.

2022–2026 “The tendencies of development of Cambisols and Retisols under contrasting land management conditions”.

2021–2026 “Investigations of straw utilization methods in intensive crop rotation”.

2021–2024 “Effect of recurrent freezing-thawing processes on soil water characteristics and microaggregates quality”.

2020–2025 “Agrotechnical solutions in studies of sunflower (Helianthus annuus) productivity under boreal climate conditions and their application possibilities”.

2017–2020 “The influence of plant cover and water retention on physico-chemical and biophysical properties of soils of different genesis”.

• 2020–2022 MA RL project “Evaluation of different crop management technologies according to economic, energy and environmental wiev point” (MT-20-7) according to measure “Support of research projects for agriculture, food industry and fisheries for 2015–2020”.

• 2019–2021 Ministry of Agriculture project “Complex investigation and economic-environmental of No-Till technology”, participant.
• 2015–2018 Research Council of Lithuania National scientific programme “Sustainability of Agro-forest and Water Ecosystems”, project “The influence of long-term contrasting intensity resources management on genesis of different soils and to other agro-ecosystems components” (AGROTVARA), participant.

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