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Copyright of Zbornik Radova - A Periodical of Scientific Research on Field & Vegetable Crops is the property of Institute of Field & Vegetable Crops and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Zbornik Radova - A Periodical of Scientific Research on Field & Vegetable Crops is the property of Institute of Field & Vegetable Crops and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Zbornik Radova - A Periodical of Scientific Research on Field & Vegetable Crops is the property of Institute of Field & Vegetable Crops and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

The vegetable breeding program at Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops is aimed at development of cultivars whose characteristics meet market demands, processing industry, green market, intensive production and food standards, and which are fully adapted to the local agroclimatic conditions. Owing to a long experience and rich genetic material used in breeding program, the cultivars developed at Institute fully meet the above demands. The paper reviews main characteristics of the vegetable cultivars registered by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management of the Republic of Serbia during 2007: the aestival-type cabbage cultivar Orion, the water melon cultivar Danka and the string bean cultivar Resava. Orion and Resava had been selected from local populations and they combine superior market quality, high nutritive value and high and stable yield. Danka is a hybrid combination which is superior to the standard in earliness and sugar content. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the achievements of the forage breeding program of the Forage Crops Department of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad from 1946 till 2006. The program has involved work on nine species of for age crops and has produced 51 cultivars registered in Serbia and seven registered abroad. It started with the breeding of alfalfa as the most important forage crop species. The alfalfa part of the program can be divided into several cycles according to the different cultivars that marked each cycle. The most important among these are the cultivars NS Banat ZMS II and NS Mediana ZMS V, which are very widely grown in commercial production and have high yields and excellent quality (Tab. 1 and 2). A total of 13 alfalfa cultivars have been developed so far at the Institute using different breeding methods. The new alfalfa cultivars Banat VS and NS Alfa are characterized by high yields and quality of hay and forage (Tab. 3 and 4). They are better adapted to Serbian growing conditions than the foreign cultivars and are also better than them in terms of yields and quality. The Forage Crops Department started breeding red clover in the 1990s and this is its youngest program. In a short period of time, two red clover cultivars have been developed, Kolubara and Una (Fig. 1 and 2). The Department's breeding of annual for age legumes is based on the preservation and sustainable use of genetic resources from its collection of annual forage legumes. This part of the program places special focus on breeding for forage and grain yields and also focuses on increased resistance to abiotic stress. Self-pollinated for age legumes are bred by the pedigree method, bulk method and back crossing. These breeding procedures have been used to develop the widely known NS cultivars of winter for age pea (Pionir), winter vetch (Neoplanta), spring fodder pea (Junior, Jezero), and spring vetch (Novi Beograd), which produce outstandingly high yields of excellent quality (Tab. 5 and 6). Breeding of forage sorghums and Sudan grass consists in developing cultivars (Titan, Sava, NS čećerac) and hybrids (NS Čiker, and Siloking) that have a large potential for high and stable yields and are suitable for use as green forage, hay and silage (Tab. 7.). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper investigates the relationships between agricultural productivity, efficiency and farm's competitiveness, trying to find out to what extend the farm's activity is both efficient and competitive? The research starts from the assumption that a farm can be economically inefficient but competitive, and, reciprocally, an economically efficient farm is not necessarily competitive. A case study of a farm from North-West Romania has been considered. It was found that, although the overall activity of the farm is inefficient in some agricultural years, for certain crops, the farm is competitive in those regarding prices and yields. The analysis goes deeper to compare crops between them and proposes solutions for increasing farm's efficiency by replacing inefficient crops to efficient ones, using the method of balance of gains and losses. The results of the research are useful in helping farmers making their decisions regarding the structure of production.

The aim of this paper is to analyze food security in the former Yugoslav republics after they became independent nations. For that purpose we use new Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) suite of food security that provides possibility for a more nuanced assessment of food insecurity. The results do show some clear evidence of differences among countries. Compared with other ex-Yugoslav countries Slovenia is the most food secure country. It has the highest gross domestic product based on purchasing power parity (GDP PPP) as well as the highest value and growth rate of agricultural productivity. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Macedonia are more vulnerable to food insecurity.

The paper investigates the relationships between agricultural productivity, efficiency and farms competitiveness, trying to find out to what extend the farms activity is both efficient and competitive? The research starts from the assumption that a farm can be economically inefficient but competitive, and, reciprocally, an economically efficient farm is not necessarily competitive. A case study of a farm from North-West Romania has been considered. It was found that, although the overall activity of the farm is inefficient in some agricultural years, for certain crops, the farm is competitive in those regarding prices and yields. The analysis goes deeper to compare crops between them and proposes solutions for increasing farms efficiency by replacing inefficient crops to efficient ones, using the method of balance of gains and losses. The results of the research are useful in helping farmers making their decisions regarding the structure of production.

Copyright of Zbornik Radova - A Periodical of Scientific Research on Field & Vegetable Crops is the property of Institute of Field & Vegetable Crops and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

Copyright of Zbornik Radova - A Periodical of Scientific Research on Field & Vegetable Crops is the property of Institute of Field & Vegetable Crops and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)