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Laboratory for Soil and Agroecology

DATA ABOUT RESPONDENT

Full name
Jordana Ninkov
Name of your institution
Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops
Institutions’s country
Serbia
Institution’s address
Maksima Gorkog 30 21000 Novi Sad Serbia
Are you responsible on behalf of the institution
Yes
Your position in the institution
  • Research Infrastructure Manager (administrative)
Your telephone number
+381 21 48 98 461
Your email address
jordana@ifvcns.ns.ac.rs
Institution's website address
http://www.nsseme.com

GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Research infrastrcture website
http://www.nsseme.com
Organisation / institution type of RI
  • National scientific organisation/institution

Main scientificdomain: Life sciences

Category: Seed banks

Other scientific and technological domains served by RI
  • Life Sciences
  • Environmental, Marine and Earth Sciences
RI type
  • Single-sited
  • Other: regional
Short description

The Laboratory for Soil and Agroecology is an integral part of the Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops in Novi Sad, which was founded in 1938. The Laboratory is a subdivision of the Institute’s Department of Soil and Agroecology.

The Laboratory for Soil and Agroecology has many years worth of practical experience in the field of soil study and is currently taking part in a number of projects ran under the auspices of the Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development and the Secretariats for science and agriculture of the Serbian Province of Vojvodina. These projects are highly experimental in nature and involve studies of soils intensively used for crop production and studies of soils damaged or polluted by anthropogenic activity.

Main source of funding of the Institute as a whole is income form the sale of seeds, licences and services. Laboratory is mainly funded by providing services, as well as via projects financed by Serbian Ministry of Science and Technological Development and the Secretariats for science and agriculture of the Serbian Province of Vojvodina.

OPERATION AND UPGRADE OF RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE AND OR IMPORTANT RESEARCH EQUIPMENT

Years in operation
  • More than 25 years
Comment on cooperation
Cooperation with other institutions is possible through projects funded by the Ministry of Science or by interested industry partners. The Laboratory collaborates with manufacturers of agrochemicals (pesticides and fertilizers) performs quality control of raw materials and finished products. It also carries out projects on soil remediation and recultivation in concert with the Petroleum Industry of Serbia. The main domestic partners are the Ministry of Science and Technological Development, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management, the Provincial Secretariat of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry, and the Petroleum Industry of Serbia. The Laboratory has scientific cooperation with Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Food, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia, Biotechnical Faculty in Podgorica, Montenegro, Faculty of Agriculture in Zagreb, Croatia and Faculty of Agriculture in Banja Luka, BiH. It also has scientific cooperation with Research Institute for Soil Science And gricultural Chemistry (RISSAC) of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

STAFF, INTERNAL USERS AND EXTERNAL USERS

FINANCE

Main sources of funding for setting up RI or important equipment
Main sources of funding for operational costs

SCIENTIFIC IMPACT

RESEARCH SERVICES PROVIDED TO USERS AND RESEARCHERS

Research services provided to users and researchers
The Laboratory possesses all the equipment necessary for its activities. The most important pieces are: Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, SpectrAA-600 Varian, GTA 100, VGA 77 Inductively coupled plasma ICP-OES, Vista ICP-OES Varian UV/VIS Spectrophotometer Cary 3 E, Varian C,H,N,S,O Elementar Analyzer, VarioEL III GC Gas Chromatograph with FID, HP 5890 GC Gas Chromatograph with FID and ECD, Agilent 7890/A HPLC liquid chromatograph, HP 1100 GC-MS Gas Chromatograph with MS, Agilent 5975B Microwave Digestion Labstation, ETHOS1 Milestone

Entry created by Davor Kozmus on November 27, 2012
Modified on November 27, 2012