A representative meeting was held at the Volyn Institute of Agro-Industrial Production of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences (UAAS), located in Rokyni, at which the new director of the Volyn Institute of Agro-Industrial Production (AIP) and head of the Volyn Regional Center for Scientific Support of AIP, Candidate of Agricultural Sciences Volodymyr Sklyanchuk, was presented. The meeting was attended by the academician-secretary of the department of regional centers for scientific support of agro-industrial production of the UAAS, Mykola Havryliuk (Kyiv), deputy head of the regional state administration Halyna Yakymchuk, head of the main department of agriculture and food Volodymyr Litvinchuk, and head of the Lutsk district state administration Vadym Naumenko. The speakers focused on the problems of agriculture in Volyn and agricultural science, to the solution of which the new director of the institute must also contribute efforts. CONTEXT-MEDIA reference: Volodymyr Sklyanchuk at one time successfully graduated from the Horokhiv Technical School, later from the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy with a specialty in Agronomy. For about twelve years he was chairman of the board at the Prykordonnyk enterprise in the Liuboml district. At that time he also completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Agriculture of the UAAS, earning the academic degree of Candidate of Agricultural Sciences. Since 1995, Volodymyr Mykhailovych has been head of the Liuboml district state administration. On March 10 of this year he was appointed to the position of director of the Volyn Institute of Agro-Industrial Production.