As a result of breeding activities in the Institute of Agriculture –Kyustendil was created cultivars: cherry – Pobeda, Cherna Konyavska, Kyustendilska chrustyalka, Bulgarian bigarreau, Mizia, Danelia, Stefania; pear – Pautalia, Progress, Kyustendilska maslovka, Jubileen dar; plum – Izobilie, Kyustendilska ranna sliva, Strumska sinia, Ososgovska edra, Kyustendilska krasavica; peach - 7-14; apricot – Festivalna; raspberry – Lyulin, Samodiva, Bulgarski rubin, Esenna pozlata, Shopska alena, Kostinbrodska, Iskra, Ralitsa; strawberry – Bulgarska ranna, Krasavica, Biljana, Sofia. Rootstocks for sweet cherry – IK-M8 and IK – M9; for apple - Drianovo 18. There are a rich gene-stock; sweet cherry - 170 cultivars, sour cherry- 140 cultivars, apple – 420 cultivars from 8 species, pear – 32 cultivars from 2 species, plum – 91 cultivars, rootstocks – 32, strawberry – 212 cultivars, raspberry – 125 cultivars, blackberry – 18, black currant – 9, cea buckthorn – 5, chokeberry – 1, table grape – 10, or total : 1360 species, forms and cultivars. Institute of Agriculture – Kyustendil creating a full technologies and different ingredients for establishment and growing of fruit plantations, using the suitable cultivars, rootstocks or scion/rootstock combinations. The main object are the technologies for creating and growing of new plantations of sweet cherry, sour cherry, apple, plum, pear, strawberry ,raspberry, blackberry, black currant and chokeberry. The scientific- research program is aimed also to establishment and introduction of technologies for integrated and biological production of apple and sweet cherry. New topics of work in the Institute are vine - growing and vegetable - growing. Cultivars created at the Institute of Agriculture, Kyustendil
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