By Royal High Decree No. 1205/04.05.1927, on May 4, 1927, the Agronomic Research Institute of Romania (ICAR) was established, including the Section of Chemistry, Microbiology and Agricultural Physics, with the purpose of studying Romania’s soils from the perspective of their agricultural properties; the activity of this section was continued by the Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry (ICPA), which later became the National Research and Development Institute for Soil Science, Agrochemistry and Environmental Protection (INCDPAPM-ICPA Bucharest).
The vision of our predecessors, which we follow, is “Agronomic science is not the science of crop cultivation, but the science of the agricultural enterprise of harnessing and organizing the factors of production: soil, plant, animal, in order to ensure maximum benefits, and that, in the interest of agricultural science, specialization in different branches of production is necessary”.
We complement this principle of our predecessors with the vision of the need to protect and improve the most precious asset we have: the land, together with the surrounding natural environment.
