Organic livestock production in Slovenia

Authors

  • Drago Kompan University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Animal Science, 1230 Domzale, Groblje 3., Slovenia
  • Silvester Žgur University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Animal Science, 1230 Domzale, Groblje 3., Slovenia
  • Marko Čepon University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Animal Science, 1230 Domzale, Groblje 3., Slovenia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31914/aak.1956

Keywords:

agriculture, livestock, organic farming

Abstract

Organic livestock production in Slovenia has oriented on milk and meat production with ruminants. Almost 90% of all agricultural area included in organic production belongs to livestock production on grassland. Slovenia has officially entered in the organic production close before year 2000. The trend of organic production from 2004 til 2009 is increasing, the most enlargement is on Equidae, Sheep, Pigs and Goat animals: 236, 199, 174 and 161% respectively. The organic surface present in Slovenia 6% of total used agricultural area.

Author Biography

  • Drago Kompan, University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Animal Science, 1230 Domzale, Groblje 3., Slovenia

    corresponding author
    drago.kompan@bf.uni-lj.si

References

Uredba o plačilih za ukrepe osi 2 iz Programa razvoja podeželja Republike Slovenije za obdobje 2007–2013 v letih 2010–2013. 2010. Uradni list RS, št. 14/2010 p 1591.

Eurostat (2010). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/main/data/database

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Published

2010-10-15

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 2 (2010): Acta Agraria Kaposváriensis

Section

Plenary Session

License

Copyright (c) 2010 Drago Kompan, Silvester Žgur, Marko Čepon

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

How to Cite

Kompan, D., Žgur, S., & Čepon, M. (2010). Organic livestock production in Slovenia. Acta Agraria Kaposváriensis, 14(2), 33-38. https://doi.org/10.31914/aak.1956

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