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Project
Acronym: APCP 
Name: Fertilizers response experimental plots-2/SSS 
Project status: From: 2010-12-28 To: 2012-03-31 (Completed)
Contract number: TF090845-HR  
Action line: Agriculture Pollution Control Project (APCP) within Croatia Agricultural Acquis Cohesion Project (CAACP)  
Type (Programme): Ostali 
Instrument: Ostalo 
Project cost: 290.000,00 HRK
Project funding: 290.000,00 HRK
Project coordinator
Organisation Name: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Rural Development 
Organisation adress: Ulica grada Vukovara 78, 10000 Zagreb 
Organisation country: Hrvatska 
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Croatian partner
Organisation name: Agronomski fakultet 
Organisation address: Svetošimunska 25 
Contact person name: Milan Poljak
Contact person tel:
01/239 3861  Contact person fax: 01/239 4011  
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Short description of project
  The Agriculture Pollution Control Project (APCP) reinforces the development objective of the Agriculture Acquis Cohesion Project (AACP) that aims at "developing sustainable systems and capacities within the MAFWM to ensure timely compliance with EU acquis conditions in the rural sector". The APCP will provide incremental support for nutrient management activities in the agricultural sector to assist the country to comply with the requirements of the EU Nitrates Directive and thereby assist the government in establishing a competitive agricultural sector and with meeting its international commitments to improve the waters of the Danube River and Black Sea. The APCP global environmental objective of is to reduce the discharge of nutrients into waters draining into the Danube River and Black Sea. The APCP development objective is to significantly increase the use of environmentally friendly agricultural practices by farmers in NW Croatia's in order to reduce nutrient discharge from agricultural sources to surface and ground water bodies. The APCP support will help reduce costs and barriers to farmers adopting improved and sustainable agricultural practices. It will also help develop mechanisms to move from demonstration level activities to operational projects that reduce non-point nutrient pollution to the Drava River as well Danube River and Black Sea. In support of this, the project will assist the Government of Croatia to: (i) promote mitigating measures for nutrient reduction from agricultural sources to surface and ground water bodies (manure management) through a Nitrates Mitigation Investment Fund (NMIF); (ii) implement a national Agri-environment policy (Code of Good Agricultural Practices); and (iii) instigate a public awareness campaign that would disseminate the benefits of project activities. Outcomes envisaged under the project include, inter alia, improvement in soil and water quality, increased awareness of environmental issues in agro-industry and among farmers, increased number of farmers adopting mitigation measures and an increased area of agricultural land using resource conservation technologies. Key success indicators include:  At least 40% of the farming population in the project areas adopting preventive and remedial measures to reduce nutrient discharges;  At least a 10% reduction in discharge of nutrients into surface and groundwater in the three project regions; Increased national awareness of linkages between local actions and impact on water nutrient load. 
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
Working under the guidance of the APCP Livestock/Nitrates Management Technical Specialist (LNMTS) and in close collaboration with GAP advisor and Croatian Agriculture Extension Institute (CAEI) staff, the functions and responsibility of the Consultant will include: 1)  By project task is foreseen setting up of fertilization, calibration experiment in order to determine optimal, profitable and ecological fertilization rate of nitrogen for the three most represented vegetable crops in NW Croatia: potato, cabbage and bell pepper. 2) Experiment will be set at one locality within the region of Varaždin County at location Vidovec. 3)  Experiment will be set according to the randomized block plan consisting of three individual experiments in accordance with the proposed fertilization plan for potato, cabbage and bell pepper. Conventional agro technique will be used for each crop. 4) Experiment will be set so that whole three crops have equal fertilization plan and NPK rates in 4 repetitions, in accordance with the following scheme: 1 localities x 3 crops x 6 treatments x 4 repetitions and it makes 72 plots. 5) Prior to setting up of the experiment "null" condition will be determined, i.e. chemical and physical so il analyses will be performed, the soil type determined, all required climate data collected and chemical analyses of the poultry manure samples (3) will be performed.  


   

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