View of fields, pastures, cracked from drought. Employees of the Sredne-Volzhskaya Experimental Station and the Institute of Drought in Saratov are working on growing drought-resistant plants in experimental fields: they select the best ears that have survived the heat, divide them into varieties, and sow them on small plots. Types of different varieties of grain crops; selected sunflower. Workers pollinate ears of rye and wheat. Artificially pollinated sunflowers in the field. Laboratory assistants examine grain samples.