Land Reclamation Institute (LRI) belongs to the Hellenic Agricultural Organisation (former National Agricultural Research Foundation - NAGREF), which is the research body of the Hellenic Ministry for Rural Development and Food. Since its foundation in 1960, the Institute is based in Sindos-Thessaloniki, northern Greece, and focuses on delivering:

• Applied research and the development of state-of-the-art technologies

•  Services of high scientific quality

• Scientific consultancy to public bodies and stakeholders

• Dissemination and implementation of novel technologies in agriculture

Research and Development Fields

• Protection and sustainable management of surface and groundwater
• Monitoring networks of water bodies (quality and quantity parameters)
• River discharge measurements
• Mathematical modeling and GIS applications in water resources management
• Water bodies’ assessment
• Groundwater artificial recharge
• Optimization of irrigation water use
• Crop-water relations, deficit irrigation
• Utilization of deteriorated water in irrigation
• Re-use of treated effluent in irrigation
• Sustainable management of irrigated land, rehabilitation of deteriorated soils
• Utilization of geothermal fluids in agriculture
• Heat pumps applications in agriculture
• Credibility-functionality control and development of instruments and methods for monitoring environmental parameters