The Department of Agrarian Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was created in 2002 by inclusion of the former Academy of Agrarian Sciences of Belarus into the structure of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Today the Department coordinates the scientific researches and practical use of their results in the major areas of scientific support of agriculture: arable farming and plant growing, animal husbandry and veterinary medicine, agricultural mechanization, food production, economics and organization of agricultural production.