Regional Conference

″Lessons learned and next steps in agriculture

pollution reduction in Danube Black Sea basen″

SIDA
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

Approval date: 05/12/2005 03/07/2006

Signing: 06/22/2005 03/07/2006
Effectiveness: 12/15/2005 03/07/2006
Closing Date: 03/31/2010 31/12/2010
Grant Amount: $9 ml GEF $5.2 ml SIDA

TOTAL AMOUNT: $ 14.2ML.

Disbursement of 90% and commitment of 95% till September 2010

Project Preparation
• Project preparation: 2004-2005., PPU
(Leader of Project Preparation Unit: prof.dr
Ivan Gržetić) – Ministry of Science and
Environment Protection.
• End of 2005. Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
and Water Management started with
implementation of the Project
 Project- staff and organization

GEF – SIDA fund

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry
World bank (WB) and Water Management (MAFWM)

World bank Task Team Leader

Tijen Arin
Project Technical Advisory Committee
Chairman
MAFWM Project Coordinator Slobodan Teofanov, Assistant Minister
Aleksandar Bogunović
Nenad Brkić, Nada Lazić,
Slavica Nikolić, Olivera Grozdić,
Snežana Đurišić, Dušanka Stanojević,
Natalija Bogdanov, Tomislav Đivuljskij,
Project Implementation Unit (PIU) Aleksandar Bogunović
Nenad Brkić, Team Leader
Danijela Ilić, Agricultural Engineer
Predrag Đorđević, Environment Specialist
Darko Tadić, PR Specialist Local Advisory Unit (LAU)
Milena Kostadinović, Procurement Specialist Uroš Božanić, Agricultural Advisor
Gordana Simović, Financial Specialist Aleksandar Repček , Agricultural Advisor
Marina Račić, Office Assistant/Translator Nenad Gvozdenović , Agricultural Advisor
Slobodan Đuričković , Agricultural Advisor
Water pollution level

• 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.

The enviromental objective is to reduce nutrient flows into water bodies

connected to the Danube River from selected enterprises and promotion
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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

• Low interest of SH and agricultural processing industry

• Readinesss of farmers to invest in environmentnt protection
• Undeveloped local market for large and specific manure management
equipment - repetition of tenders
• Local permitting procedures in regard to manure and waste water treatment
facilities were not foreseen in the preparation phase of the project
• Large portions of funds committed but could only be disbursed upon
delivery of equipment or upon completion of construction works and
obtaining operating permit
• Construction season- limited period for realization of field project activities
 Key results:

The Code of Good Agricultural Practice.

Study “Preparation of a Nitrate Directive Implementation Plan and
Legal Framework for Serbia”.

120 nutrient management plans (NMP) prepared.

Visited and work with over 200 farms.

New procedures and activities developed and introduced.

100 farms- received the grant support (facilities and equipment).

3 Slaughterhouses in program of Project support.

3 Rendering plants received equipment for collecting waste
products.
 Key results:

7 Agriculture Schools received the grant support (construction works and
equipment).

Established Training and Information Centre (TIC).

650 participants trained in TIC about EU legislation on ND and WFD,
CGAP, proper manure and slaughterhouse animal waste management.

Provided equipment for laboratories and software for the Soil Science
Institute (SSI), Hydrometeorological Institute (HMI) and 4 local laboratories.

Installed 53 piezometers at 9 demonstration farms.

Public awareness raised aprox. 21% in general public, 38% among
stakeholders (2006-2008).
 Key Recommendations:
Recommendations
 Simplify permitting procedure and provide incentives to industry to
invest in WWT facilities;
 More flexible approach in introduction of necessary changes in
project document;
 Adjust procedures with situation on the field;
 Project preparation- conduct small scale pilot project;
 Procedures and activities predicted in the Project preparation
phase could be changed due to the time difference and legal and
social environment changes;
 Secure that Project always has one authorized person for special
accounts- project manager/ coordinator
 Training of Ministries coordinators on:
 Relevant rules and procedures - how, who, help, assistance…;
 M&E Reporting procedures;
PROJECT DIRECT BENEFICIARIES
CONSTRUCTIONS AND EQUIPMENT ON FARMS IN DATA:

Project grant received or in receiving process- 100 farms in Serbia with:

More than 40.000 ha of arable land in the farm property,

Aprox. 27000 Livestock Units (pigs and cows) on farms,

Annual solid manure production is 70000 m3,
CONSTRUCTIONS AND EQUIPMENT ON FARMS IN DATA:

Annual slurry production is 210.000 m3,

Total financial value of nutrients is about 750.000,00 EUR,

Total sum of farmers investment: 3,5 mil. USA dollars,

Total sum of project funds (2006-2010): 7,0 USA mil. dollars
Construction and manure equipment supplying - DREPR Project
farm beneficiaries

• farms: “Miklos Balas”, “Velvet”;

Construction and manure equipment supplying - DREPR
Project farm beneficiaries
• farm: “Titel Agro”;
Construction and manure equipment supplying - DREPR Project
farm beneficiaries
• farms: “Sima Davidov”, “Vladimir Drljaca”;
Construction and manure equipment supplying - DREPR Project
farm beneficiaries
•farms: “ABC food”, “Ronald Holo”;
Construction and manure equipment supplying - DREPR Project
farm beneficiaries
•farms: “Jovanovic Momir”, “Mirko Djordjevic”, “Kuc company”;
Construction and manure equipment supplying - DREPR
Project farm beneficiaries
•Farm: “Napredak”;
Supplying of manure equipment - DREPR Project farm
beneficiaries
Workshops and Field days at the Project
demonstration farms
Construction and equipment supplying at
slaughterhouses “KiM - Kraljevačka industrija mesa”
Construction and equipment supplying at
slaugterhouses “Yuhor – Industrija mesa”
Construction at meat processing industry “Nišprodukt”
Equipment for Rendering Plants at Sombor, Ćuprija
and Belgrade
Equipment for Rendering Plants at Sombor, Ćuprija and
Belgrade
Construction at Agricultural High School in Požarevac
Construction at Agricultural High School in Svilajnac
Construction at Agricultural High School in Valjevo
Construction at Agricultural High School in Vršac
Construction at Agricultural High School in Bačka Topola
Construction at Agricultural High School in Futog
Training and Information Center (TIC), Institute of Animal Husbandry

• A Training and Information Center (TIC) will be supported as a knowledge

resource base, accreditation and training center for trainers, extension
agents, staff of MAFWM and MSEP/DEP, managers of farms and agro-
processing facilities. The TIC will be located at the IAH, Belgrade-Zemun.

• 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.

• Organized trainings for 650 participants during four years

• Organized 4 Field days for Serbian farmers.

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Training and Information Center (TIC), Institute of Animal Husbandry

Training activities developed through the topics

Policies and Regulation Standards for EU Nitrate and Animal

By-Products Directive
Manure and Slurry Storage, handling and processing
Plant Nutrient Management
Handling, Treatment and Recycling of Slaughterhouse Waste
Soil and Water Monitoring
Agricultural Engineering /civil engineering
Organization and Effective Operation of Agricultural Advisory
Service
Farm Economy
 Water and Soil Monitoring
Nutrient Reduction
The objective of this component is to demonstrate to livestock farms and slaughterhouses cost-effective methods
to reduce nutrient run-off and discharge into the Danube River and its tributaries; and to improve agricultural
advisory service capacity to extend knowledge and adoption of these technologies in the project area.

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

• Dissemination of education and “know-how” in Serbia;

• Demo Farms and Institutes as a nucleus of future
knowledge, CGAP, ND, NMP;
• Agriculture High Schools as plant for future experts
and practitioners in high quailities stadnards in
agriculture and environmental protection in country;
• Replication Strategy for other projects in MAFWM
Plans;
• Public awareness on key environmental issues;
• Introduction of EU standrads in Serbian agriculture
practice and Development of Comercial Practice;
DREPR Project .... Next steps....

Utilisation of agricultural by
products as resources for
renewable energy production
“BIO-GAS / BIO-MASS”
DREPR Project .... Next steps....“BIOMAS”

• Small pilot survey about using

biogas technology at Serbian
farms.
• The research had been
conducted during
November/December 2009.
• Questionnaire was made by
PIU team and focus group was
consisted from 20 most
representative farmers which
participated in DREPR project
as well.
• Second questionnaire, in more
details, was made in
August/September 2010
• Prefeasibility study for Biogas
• Project Identification form
prepared and submitted
DREPR Project Team
Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management
Nemanjina 22-26, Belgrade, Republic Serbia

Thank you !