Experiences from soya bean cropping in Serbia and regional cooperation

Dr Vuk Djordjevic

Institute of field and vegetable crops

Soybean department

Novi Sad, Serbia

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Soybean production

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Soybean cropping systems in Serbia

Variety Time of sowing

Harvesting

Full season0, I, II April September

Second crop000, 00 June October

“Price hunters”00 April August

Typical agronomy practice

Price hunters

Source: Produktna berza, Novi Sad

Location Variety ha kg/ha

Golubinci Fantast 10 5.5

Erdevik Sava 2 4.9

Golubinci Rubin 12 4.7

Laćarak Apolo 14 4.7

Golubinci Fantast 101 4.6

Location Variety ha kg/ha

Mačvanski Belotić NS Maximus 3 5,5Lazarevac Valjevka 2 5,3

Kovilj NS Maximus 35 5,4

Bačko Novo Selo Rubin 44 4,6Kać Sava 66 4,9

2016.*State average 3.3 t/ha

2015.State average 1.9 t/ha

Regional cooperation

REGIONAL COOPERATION IN MITIGATING NEGATIVE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES ON SOYBEAN PRODUCTION THROUGH SELECTIVE SOYBEAN BREEDING

Partners

• Project “GMO-free Quality soya of the Danube region” -DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR INTERNATIONALE ZUSAMMENARBEIT (GIZ)

• Institute for field and vegetable crops, Novi Sad, Serbia (INS)

• Agriculture Institute, Osijek, Croatia (IOS)

• Agriculture Institute Republic of Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Hercegovina (IBL)

• Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, Austria (BU)

Model development for regional consequence of global climate changes

Development tools for genomic selection

Yield validation of genomic selection tool

Quality validation of genomic selection tool

Better adapted soybean varieties for CEE region

Using genomic selection in breeding programs

Genomic selection

Genotyping-by-sequencing

Total: 500 soybean genotypes

Replicated yield trials 2014-2015

Thank you for your attention!!!!