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THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE


The Faculty of Agriculture

Address:
Nemanjina 6
11081 BELGRADE - ZEMUN
Telephone: (011) 615-315
Fax: (011) 193-659

Dean:
Professor Dr. Viliman Koljaji}

Vice deans:
Professor Dr. Slavoljub Vitorovi}
Professor Dr. Mladen Jovanovi}

Detailed information in Serbian



ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

The Faculty of Agriculture in Zemun was founded in 1919 as one of the six faculties of the University of Belgrade. For more than a decade classes were held in several locations in the town, in private and state-owned buildings, until 1932 when the Faculty moved into its own building.

After the Second World War, the Faculty of Agriculture developed fairly intensively, being the first in the country to educate university-level specialist in all branches of agricultural production.

Since its founding, the Faculty has graduated 13,678 students, conferred 706 master's degrees and 589 doctoral degrees. One member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts and one member of a foreign academy of sciences have been elected from among the ranks of the Faculty's TEACHING STAFF. The present rector of the University is a professor at this Faculty.



INTERNAL ORGANIZATION

Educational, research and expert activities are carried out within the framework of nine institutes and twenty-nine chairs. The following units make up the organizational structure of the Faculty: Institute of Field Crop Production, Institute of Fruit Science and Viticulture, Institute of Animal Science, Institute of Soil and Land Reclamation, Institute of Plant and Food Protection, Institute of Agricultural Mechanization, Institute of Food Technology and Biochemistry, Institute of Agroeconomics, Institute of Tobacco and the work unit - School Farm of "Radmilovac".

Instruction is carried out within the framework of the following sections: arable farming, fruit growing and viticulture, animal breeding, land reclamation, plant and food protection, maintenance and exploitation of agricultural machinery, food technology (the group of plant product technology and the group of animal product technology), and agroeconomics.

The following chairs make up the Faculty: Department of Botany, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Department of Agricultural Technology and Agroecology, Department of Arable Farming, Department of Truck Farming, Horticulture and Medicinal Herbs, Department of Fruit Growing, Department of Viticulture, Department of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, Department of Biology and Animal Breeding, Department of Animal Breeding, Reproduction and Health Protection, Department of Drainage and Irrigation, Department of Soil and Water Management, Department of Pedology and Geology, Department of Plant Physiology and Agrochemistry, Department of Entomology, Department of Phytopathology, Department of Pesticides, Department of Agricultural Machinery, Department of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Animal Products Technology, Department of Plant Products Technology, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Technological Microbiology, Department of Soil and Water Microbiology, Department of General Economic Theory and Sociology, Department of Agroeconomic Policy and the Market, Department of Statistics, Department of Organization and Economic Production and Department of Cost Theory, Accounting and Finances.


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TEACHING STAFF

Teaching and research activities are carried out by 77 full professors, 27 associate professors, 59 assistant professors, 83 assistants and 55 junior assistants.



UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES

The undergraduate studies enrolment capacity is about 800 first-years students.

Studies last four academic years, namely eight semesters, and are organized within the framework of the departments, as follows: field crop production, fruit science and viticulture, animal science, land reclamation, maintenance and exploitation of agricultural machinery, plant and food protection, food technology (teaching group for the technology of plant products and teaching group for the technology of animal products, and agroeconomics).

On completing studies at this Faculty one acquires the degree of agricultural engineer in the corresponding agricultural science (field crop production, fruit science and viticulture, animal science, plant and food protection, land reclamation, maintenance and exploitation of agricultural machinery, and agroeconomics), food technology engineer of plant products, and food technology engineer of animal products.



POSTGRADUATE STUDIES

The Faculty organizes postgraduate studies in the following areas: agronomy sciences (sciences relating to the soil), plant protection, plant production and biotechnology), zootechnical sciences (livestock production), food technology sciences, and agroeconomics.

Special courses are organized in the current academic year: soil cultivation systems, finishing and storing seeds, medicinal herbs, the production of vegetables and flowers in a protected space, viticulture, ampelography, zootechnics, animal breeding and selection, apiculture, fodder technology and animal nutrition, fish farming, wild life preservation and hunting, the technology of animal products, the technology of fermentation, canning technology, technology of agricultural products, technological microbiology, agricultural machinery in plant and livestock production, restoring of technogenous spaces, soil and water revitalization and conservation, microbiology, drainage and irrigation, the mechanization of plant and livestock production, and rationalization in farm management.

The Faculty offers individual programs leading to a Ph. D degree in biotechnical sciences in the areas of agronomy, agroeconomics, zootechnics, and food technology.



PUBLICATIONS

The Faculty publishes the Review of Research Work at the Faculty of Agriculture (in English), and a monthly Information Bulletin (in Serbian).



LIBRARY

The Faculty library contains about 50,000 books which may be used in two reading-rooms with a total seat capacity of 208.



STUDENT LIFE

The students of the Faculty have a club as well as a sports club called the "Agronomist". There is also a student cafeteria in the Faculty building.