SVIBOR - Project code: 4-01-043

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Project code: 4-01-043


Cropping Systems and Alternative Practices


Main researcher: PUCARIĆ, ALEKSANDAR (57514)


Assistants
Type of research: applied
Duration from: 01/01/91. to 12/31/02.
Papers on project (total): 107
Institution name: Agronomski fakultet, Zagreb (178)
Department/Institute: Departments of field crops, general agronomy, soil science, agricultural engineering, agricultural zoology, botany, chemistry, herbology
Address: HR 10 000 ZAGREB, SVETOŠIMUNSKA 25, CROATIA
City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
Communication
Phone: 385 (0)1 2335-777 local 4241
Phone: 385 (0)1 2335-777 local 4245
Phone: 385 (0)1 2335-777 local 3106
Fax: 385 (0)1 215-300
E-mail: Grbavac @ magr.agr.hr.
Summary: Multy-disciplined cropping systems long term study is beeing performed on a vertic amphygley of upper Sava Valley (location Oborovo) and on a semigley of mid Drava Valley (location Pitomača). At the first location five systems are composed of rotation relating to cash grain production, four are based on the forage legume crops and extensive permanent grass/clover pasture is also included. In some systems and crops alternative practices in tillage, winter cover crops growing, nonchemical weed control, disease and insect resistance of cultivars are investigated. At the second location eight crop rotations in growing Virginia type tobacco are under investigations. Productivity, profitability and ecological influences of each system are measured thru grain or forage dry matter yields, nutrients (N,P,K) cycling, soil chemical and physical changes, disease and insect attacks, weed flora monitoring, nitrate, heavy metals and herbicides (triazines) accumulation in the soil and thru recording all costs of inputs.

Keywords: cropping systems, alternative practices, productivity, environmental influence, profitability

Research goals: - to compare productivity, profitability and environmentalinfluence of several intensive cropping systems in which maincrops in Croatia - maize and winter wheat are included andsystems in which forage legumes are included in variouspercentage. - to compare rotations effects in growing Virginia tobacco. - to describe dynamics of nutrient cycling, plant-pestrelations, soil microbiology and fauna in different systems - to create outdoor laboratory as education point forstudents, researchers, farmers - Results obtained will contribute to scientific disciplineand investigations in similar agroecological conditions and willbe use in programing recommendations for practice.

COOPERATION - INSTITUTIONS


  1. Name of institution: Institut za oplemenjivanje i proizvodnju bilja
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Other
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  2. Name of institution: Duhanski institut
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Joint project
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia

  3. Name of institution: Hrvatski prirodoslovni muzej
    Type of institution: University/Faculty
    Type of cooperation: Systematic exchange of information
    City: 10000 - Zagreb, Croatia
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