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 | | Skierniewice is a small town that has been for over 30 years the main center of horticultural research in Poland. |
 | | The voivodship of Skierniewice that has been created as a result of the reform of the administrative system - encloses within its borders regions of various levels of social and economical development, which are however united by numerous social, economical, and cultural links, created in a natural way by historical processes. |
 | | Universally and vigorously has been developing the town of Skierniewice, the seat of political and administrative authorities of the voivodship, and the town in which for more than twenty years scientific institutions such as the Research Institute of Pomology and Floriculture and the Research Institute of Vegetable Crops have been developing. |
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