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What is Crop Plant Production

Chapter 12
Handbook of Research on Agricultural Policy, Rural Development, and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary Economies
Crop production is a branch of agriculture that deals with growing crops for use as food and fiber. It includes breeding of all major field crops: wheat, corn, soybean, sunflower, rapeseed and sugar beet with the use of agro-technical measures and using the latest machinery. Additionally, using optimal quantities of chemicals it comes to achieving high and stable yields.
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Importance of Plant Production in Development of Rural Areas: A Case Study City of Smederevo, Serbia
Marijana Jovanović Todorović (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Serbia) and Anton Puškarić (Institute of Agricultural Economics, Serbia)
Copyright: © 2020 |Pages: 12
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9837-4.ch012
Abstract
This chapter analyzes plant production from the perspective of development rural areas and it is based on the case study for rural areas on territory of Smederevo. The main goal of this chapter points to the current situation in plant production as one of the most important agricultural activities and that creates the basis for future development. It will be presented data collected from Census of agriculture, yearbooks, and local reports, but also data collected in the field. The authors apply theoretical and practical frame of research based on the case of study, which is oriented on used agricultural land, realized production and yield in period 2013-2017.
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