[1] In 2003, AFI was renamed the State Scientific Institution of the Order of the Red Banner Agrophysical Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences (RAAS GNU AFI).

[3] Throughout its history, the AFI's scientists have highlighted the importance of physical factors in the life of plants and formulated the main task of agronomic physics to be the comprehensive study of these factors.

The AFI uses advances in physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology, to solve problems in agriculture and to increase its efficiency.

The AFI sees its work today as continuing the scientific traditions of the world-famous physicist Abram Ioffe and the botanist and geneticist Nikolai Vavilov.

In fact, the term 'agrophysics' itself was first proposed by Ioffe to cover the relations within the soil environment, and especially those of the mass and energy transfer in the soil–plant–atmosphere system.