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Belgrade 04.-06. October, 2010.
Project Development Objective:
The project aims to reduce agricultural nutrient pollution in the Danube River .
The global environment objective of the project is to reduce nutrient flows into
water bodies connected to the Danube River from selected farms and
enterprises.
GEF SIDA
• The section of the Danube that flows through Serbia (SRB) is 588 km long
of which about 138 km constitute the state border with Croatia and about
213 km with Romania.
• The Danube’s largest tributaries, Drava, Sava and Tisa-increasing its flow
about 2.5 times.
• Other significant tributaries -Velika Morava, Tamis
• The important impact to the water pollution have cattle and pig farms,
slaughterhouses, meat processing industry and other food industries.
Objectives
The main objective is reduction of nutrient load discharged into the Danube
River and its tributaries from livestock farms, notably pig and cattle farms,
and slaughterhouses.
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Nutrients:
• Nutrients are nitrogen and phosphorous compounds whose surplus run off
to watercourses causing algae bloom which in turn suffocate the water flow,
resulting in polluted, foul smelling water in such watercourse, unsuitable for
bathing and drinking, and massive die off of living organisms such as
crayfish, fish or aquatic plants due to oxygen depletion in such water.
Nutrients origin :
• Nutrients originate primarily from cattle, pig and poultry excrete popularly
referred to as manure and slurry.
Project components:
– Component 1. Regulatory Reform and Capacity Building
– Component 2. Investment in Nutrient Reduction
– Component 3. Water and Soil Quality Monitoring, Public Awareness
Raising and Replication Strategy
– Component 4. Project Management, Implementation and Monitoring
Key Issues - including main implementation obstacles that
resulted in low disbursement in initial phase of
the project
• Project will support IAH to become a model demonstration and training farm
and improve the technical skills of the staff to become trainers for extension
advisors, industry and policy enforcement staff of the relevant ministries and
agencies.
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Training and Information Center (TIC), Institute of Animal Husbandry
Water monitoring
• Monitoring of water quality at the eight demonstration farms and the IAH.
• Testing the effect of agricultural practices introduced at the eight demonstration farms and the IAH to reduce the
leaching of nitrogen and phosphorus to local surface and groundwater.
• Lab analyses are being done by the Hidrometeorological Institute (HMI), the results will show decreasing of
pollution level in surface and groundwaters at selected demonstration farms and IAH. According with this, 72
pezometers are installed at all of 9 demo farms. Based on first results it is shown that the process of pollution has
no increasing trends.
Soil monitoring
• For soil quality monitoring at the eight demonstration farms and the IAH was engaged Soil Science Institute in
Belgrade.
• Soil quality monitoring was done at others farms by the 4 Local Labs (Pozarevac, Sabac, Vrbas, Novi Sad)
engaged and equiped by the Project
• One-hectare plots will be used to demonstrate and promote the use of good agricultural management practices in
IAH –TIC. The impact of these practices on soil quality will be monitored with the aim of providing demonstration
studies to farmers and policy makers of Serbia.
• Total number of soil samples tested 124 as well as 94 manure samples at approximately 60 farms.
Education, Promotion, Replication
Utilisation of agricultural by
products as resources for
renewable energy production
“BIO-GAS / BIO-MASS”
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