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AGRICULTURAL SOURCE POLLUTION CONTROL IN SERBIA

  •                                      Presentation
  •                                   Ljiljana Sundać
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Water balance
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Main Sources of Agricultural Pollution


  • Mineral fertilizers
  • Crop protection chemicals
  • Cattle breeding
  • Erosion
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Land under Cultivation

  • 5,73 x 106 ha


  • 64,6% of total territory
  • wheat
  • maize
  • sunflower
  • sugar beet
  • fruits
  • vegetables
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Fertilizers
  • 250-285 kg/h/y
  • during 1981-1988
  • < 100 kg/h/y
  • during 1994-1997


  • Ratio of active components:
  • N: 55%
  • P2O5: 23.5%
  • K2O: 21.5%


  • Specific N export:
  • 0,1- 0,15 tN/km2/y
  • Specific P export
  •   0,015 – 0,025 tP/km2/y
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Pesticides
  • 3 kg/ha/y
  • during 1983 – 1985
  • 1 kg/ha/y
  • during 1994 – 1997
  • Atrazine


  • JDS: Sava 0,78 µg/l
  • RHMI: Sava(boundary)
  • 1,148 µg/l
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Cattle breeding and grazing
  • cca 100 larger cattle farms
  • cca 130 larger pig farms


  • 1 361 000 ha pastures
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Legislation
  • Federal law on water regime
  • Law on waters
  • Water Master Plan
  • Regulations
  • Federal law on organic farming
  • Master spatial plan of Republic of Serbia
  • Investigations
  • Draft water law
  • Draft law on water management financing