The State аnd Areas under Organic Vegetable Production in the Republic of Serbia

Abstract

Due to extremely favourable soil and climate conditions, vegetable production has been traditionally developing in the Republic of Serbia. This study presents the areas under organic vegetable production in Serbia in the 2012-2015 period. In 2015, vegetable production, based on organic principles, was performed on the area of 170.5 ha, with the greatest potential in the region of the Province of Vojvodina (80%). The smallest areas with organic production of vegetables were recorded in the City of Belgrade. Organicaly produced vegetables mainly consist of bean, popping maize, potato, Jerusalem artichoke, gourd and pepper. In spite of poorly developed market not only of vegetable production, but the entire sector of organic food production in Serbia, the number of organic food producers has been rapidly growing and with the adequate investment, credit–monetary and export support by the government, vegetable production could become the most important production in our country.

The Development of Organic Agriculture in Serbia and Worldwide

“…Organic string bean, pea, potato, tomato, French bean and onion are most produced in Šumadija and Western Serbia. The production of organic potato, French bean, pumpkin and topinambur prevail in Southern and Eastern Serbia, whereas potato, popping maize, French bean, pepper, pumpkin, carrot and cabbage are organically produced in Vojvodina (Golijan et al, 2017d). Only a total of 114.59 ha are devoted to the production of organic medical and aromatic plants in Serbia.…”

The production of organic spelt wheat in Serbia

“…U organskom sistemu proizvodnje prednost imaju autohtone sorte žita, voća i povrća (Veličković and Golijan, 2016;Golijan et al ., 2017d;Popović et al ., 2017) . Prema Bavec and Bavec (2006), u organskoj proizvodnji se uzgaja oko 40 malo gajenih ratarskih, povrtarskih, aromatičnih i lekovitih vrsta, kao što su: jednozrna pšenica (Triticum monococcum), dvozrna pšenica (Triticum diococcum), heljda (Fagopyrum esculentum), kinoa (Chenopodium quinoa), korasan (Triticum turgidum), tritikale (Triticosecale), proso (Panicum miliaceum), štir (Amaranthus sp .…”