scientific support of soybean production in serbia · crops acreages maize 750.000 wheat 250.000...
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Scientific support of soybean production in Serbia
Dr Svetlana Balešević Tubić
Vojvodina Province
1.6 million hectares of arable land
Crops Acreages
Maize 750.000
Wheat 250.000
Sunflower 165.000
Soybean 155.000
Forage crops 75.000
Vegetables 65.000
Sugar beat 55.000
Tradition in soybean production in Vojvodina
• First historical record of soybean production in Vojvodina: before 1817
• First significant record of soybean production from 1921
• Official statistics from 1934
Soybean production guide from 1929
Vojvodina Climate
-5
0
5
10
15
20
25
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
oC mm
Vojvodina soil
1,86
9,35
58,81
28,96
1,02 0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
< 1 % 1 - 2 % 2 - 3.5 % 3.5 - 5 % > 5 %
Soil humus content
Based on 90.000 soil samples (Sekulic et al. 2007)
Land owners
73%
27%
Family holdings
Holdings of legal entitles
2%
47%
29%
14%
5%
2%
1% 0%
Family holdings size
0
0 - 2
2 - 5
5 - 10
10 - 20
20 - 50
50 - 100
100
Census of Agriculture 2012 in the Republic of Serbia – First results
GMO legislation
• Cultivation of GMO soybean is forbidden
• Import of GMO products is not allowed
• Filed and lab control of suspicious fields by state authority
• Destruction of illegal fields of GMO soybean
• Several international certificated laboratories for GMO
testing
Professional support to farmers
Farmer
Agricultural extension
service
Reserch institue
extension service
Forecast reporting plant
protection service
Agricultural extension service
• 12 Extension staitions cover over 1.6 milion hectars
Agricultural extension service
• Education (winter school)
• Publications
• Trials
• Field days
• Plant protection
• Marketing of products
Institute of field and vegetable crops
• Established 75 years ago
• State research institute
Mission:
• breeding field and vegetable crops
• seed production
• technology development
• technology transfer Farmers needs
Seed produc
tion
Soybean breeding
Breeding and varieties
• Conventional breeding since 1975
• Over 100 varieties registerd in Serbia
• Over 50 varieties registered abroad
• Maturity groups: 000, 00, 0, I, II, III
• Trials all over the Vojvodina Region
Seed availability
• Seed production from pre-basic to certified seed
• Seed distribution to farmers
• Support during growing season
• Modern seed-processing equipment
• Organic seed production
Farmer education
• Extension service
• Collaboration with Vojvodina extension
services in winter schools
• Publications
• Agronomy seminar
Nitrogen
• Strong support to minimal usage of mineral fertilizers in conventional production
• Highly efficient inoculants
• Regular applications of inoculants
• Certified seed = free of charge Nitragin
Our philosophy: bag content
High quality seed
Production technology
Support and
extension
Nitrogen (Inoculants)
ha (000)
Soybean acreages in Serbia
t/ha
Soybean yield in Serbia
0
0,5
1
1,5
2
2,5
3
3,5
Thank you for your attention!