Department of Plant Protection and Quarantine history

In the history of the University, from 1963 to 1973 there was a Department “Plant protection“ ( the head is Roktanen L. P.), which later was transformed into the Department “Horticulture and plant protection“ (the head is Shepetkov N. G.). Specialists who made a great contribution to plant protection in the Department were professionals Kostromitin V., A. I. Calis, E. D. Smetanina, L. P. Roktanen, L. P. Novikova, M. F.

Plant protection disciplines were taught for various agronomic specialties, including in recent years in the composition of departments: agro-ecology and agricultural chemistry; crop production. In 2010, the Department "Plant" produced the first set of students majoring in 5B081100- "Plant protection and quarantine". In January 2013 the Department "Crop production, agriculture and plant protection" was reorganized into 2 departments - "Farming and crop production"(acting head isStybaev G. Zh.) and "Plant protection and quarantine" (acting head is A.K. Tuleeva).

Currently the plant protection and quarantinein Kazakhstan is considered as the most important sector, providing food and phytosanitary security of the country. Modern plant protection is one of the fastest growing areas in agriculture. In the conditions of hardening of requirements of ecology of the open global market, it is necessary that the phytosanitary service was correctly decided the issues of preservation of yield and quality against pests, diseases and weeds, were guided in a broad range of pesticides.

Seifullin Kazakh agrotechnical University is one of the first in the country began preparation of specialists in "Plant protection and quarantine".

In 2013, for the first time in the history of the university in the Central and Northern region of the country, the Department of Plant Protection and Quarantine was opened, which included highly qualified teachers. In the same year, a magistracy was opened in the specialty 6M081100 - "Plant Protection and Quarantine" and the first set of undergraduates was made. From the 2014-2015 academic year, master's studies are conducted in multilingual groups.

In August 2015, the license for the preparation PhD doctors in 6D081100- "Plant protection and quarantine"was received.In 2015 the Department on all three levels of higher education successfully passed the state certification for a period of 5 years. 

The contingent of students in educational programs of B077 -“Phytosanitary Safety”, M131 – “Phytosanitary Monitoring” and D131 –“Phytosanitary Technology” 

Professor of the Department K.M. Musynov became the owner of the state grant of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan “The best teacher of the university of the Republic of Kazakhstan” in 2015. For 2015-2018, the department won 2 position in the nomination "The best department of the university." 

Positions Of educational programs of the Department in the rankings of specialties in Kazakhstan (data of rating agencies)