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The Agriculture Pollution Control Project (APCP) reinforces the development objective of the Agriculture Acquis Cohesion Project (AACP) that aims at "developing sustainable systems and capacities within the MAFWM to ensure timely compliance with EU acquis conditions in the rural sector". The APCP will provide incremental support for nutrient management activities in the agricultural sector to assist the country to comply with the requirements of the EU Nitrates Directive and thereby assist the government in establishing a competitive agricultural sector and with meeting its international commitments to improve the waters of the Danube River and Black Sea. The APCP global environmental objective of is to reduce the discharge of nutrients into waters draining into the Danube River and Black Sea. The APCP development objective is to significantly increase the use of environmentally friendly agricultural practices by farmers in NW Croatia's in order to reduce nutrient discharge from agricultural sources to surface and ground water bodies. The APCP support will help reduce costs and barriers to farmers adopting improved and sustainable agricultural practices. It will also help develop mechanisms to move from demonstration level activities to operational projects that reduce non-point nutrient pollution to the Drava River as well Danube River and Black Sea. In support of this, the project will assist the Government of Croatia to: (i) promote mitigating measures for nutrient reduction from agricultural sources to surface and ground water bodies (manure management) through a Nitrates Mitigation Investment Fund (NMIF); (ii) implement a national Agri-environment policy (Code of Good Agricultural Practices); and (iii) instigate a public awareness campaign that would disseminate the benefits of project activities. Outcomes envisaged under the project include, inter alia, improvement in soil and water quality, increased awareness of environmental issues in agro-industry and among farmers, increased number of farmers adopting mitigation measures and an increased area of agricultural land using resource conservation technologies. Key success indicators include: · At least 40% of the farming population in the project areas adopting preventive and remedial measures to reduce nutrient discharges; · At least a 10% reduction in discharge of nutrients into surface and groundwater in the three project regions; · Increased national awareness of linkages between local actions and impact on water nutrient load
Short description of the task performed by Croatian partner
The overall goal of this investigation is to assess the influence of the different farming systems on the leaching of nutrients, namely nitrate and phosphorus, into the groundwater in the agricultural regions of the Varaždinska County (Croatia). Working under the guidance of the APCP Livestock Nitrates Management Technical Specialist (LNMTS) and in close collaboration with GAP advisor and Croatian Agriculture Extension Institute (CAEI) staff, the functions and responsibility of the Consultant will include setting of the experimental plots to provide a measure of nitrite and other parameters leaching through the soil as follows: 1. Installation of the field Iysimeters: Lysimeters are the field equipment used to measure the water percolation from the soil surface through the root zone to deeper horizons; in the same time, the leaching of the nutrients and toxic substaJ)ces can be monitored; using lysimeters the nutrient mobility, translocation and velocity in unsaturated zone may be assessed. The set of three Iysimeters will be installed on three locations locations within the region of Varaždin County with different kind of agricultural production: a. Typical field crops production farming - crop rotation using mineral fertilization; b. Integrated crop-livestock farm, using both manure and mineral fertilizers in the field crops production; c. Farm with the predominate vegetable production. 2. Lysimeters will be installed at the depth of 1 m or at least at the depth of the gravel parent material. Namely, when the soil solution containing dissolved nutrients reaches the gravel layer, they will be transported and dispersed into the groundwater. The soil pits have to be opened and examined (in situ and in the laboratory) before the installation of the Iysimeters. In total, 9 Iysimeters will be installed and 3 soil profiles examined. 3. Determination of the nitrogen and phosphorus content in soil have to be done twice a year, early spring before the vegetation season starts in general, and late autumn, to determine the residual nutrients in soil. Soil samples (as a composite samples representative for the plot) will be taken at two depths, 0-30 cm and 30-60 cm and analyzed in the laboratory for the nutrient contents. In total, 12 soil samples per year will be analyzed for the nutrient contents. 4. Percolates from the soil profiles will be collected into the plastic containers, measured and sampled twice a month, or after the abundant precipitation. Samples will be analyzed for the nutrient contents in the laboratory. In total, 216 percolate samples will be collected and analyses per year. 5. All agricultural measures applied on the site will be recorded and control led regarding the land management, including: a. Soil tillage b. Fertilizer application c. Irrigation d. Pest control e. Harvest
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