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Department of Viticulture
The Department of Viticulture and Fruit Growing has a long history in agricultural education in Bulgaria. Over the years, prominent and well-known professors such as Corresponding Member Prof. Dr. Mincho Kondarev and Prof. Velko Velkov, contributed a lot to the modern development of viticulture and fruit growing in Bulgaria.
At the moment, the teaching staff of the department consists of one professor, six associate professors and three main assistants, who teach classes for students of the various qualification degrees (bachelor, master and doctor).
To ensure the educational process in the university building, the department has two classrooms in Viticulture and Ampelography, two classrooms in Fruit and Pomology, one chemical laboratory in Winemaking and a modern laboratory in Biotechnology.
The department has a modern educational and experimental base, located in the land of the village of Brestnik, near the city of Plovdiv, where practical classes in Viticulture, Horticulture, Ampelography and Pomology are held with students from all faculties of the university.
Over 400 wine and dessert (seeded and seedless) varieties of vines are grown and stored in the vineyards on an area of 30 hectares. With this large gene pool, Bulgaria is one of the leading places in Europe for a diverse varietal collection in one place, where you can see all the vine training systems and rootstocks used in viticulture.
Among the vineyards of the Agricultural University - Plovdiv is located the only wine cellar for microvinification of an experimental nature in Bulgaria, where the practical exercises in Winemaking are held.
On an area of 20 hectares of fruit plantations, more than 200 varieties of different fruit species and experimental plantations with different cultivar rootstock combinations are maintained. The base has an assortment of deciduous and non-deciduous tropical and subtropical species.
In the experimental base of the Department of Viticulture and Horticulture, there are modern classrooms equipped with the necessary equipment and technology for the normal course of the educational process.
The department leads the master's courses:
- "Viticulture with the Fundamentals of Winemaking";
- "Fruit growing - production and production management";
- "Fruit production and post-harvest technologies" - Joint master's degree with UHT - Plovdiv.
Head of Department
Members
Professor Svetla Yancheva PhD
- Phone: +359 32 654 312
- E-mail: yancheva_s@au-plovdiv.bg
Associate Professor Boyan Stalev PhD
- Phone: +359 32 654 276
- E-mail: stalev26@abv.bg
Administration
Mariana Mitova
- Phone: +359 32 654 219
- E-mail: mmitova@abv.bg
Ampelography
In the discipline "Ampelography", students receive information about meaning, botanical and economic classification of Vitaceae family, the geographical location and distribution of genera, species and varieties of vines. In the learning process, knowledge is acquired about the morphological sign ...
Viticulture
In the discipline "Viticulture", students receive knowledge about the state, problems and prospects for the development of viticulture in our country and in the world. They gain information about the biological requirements in the production of vine planting material, the creation and cultivation ...
Fundamentals of winemaking
In the "Fundamentals of Winemaking", students are introduced to theoretical and practical knowledge of the wine grape processing and production of different types of wines.
Their knowledge is enriched about the relationship between the quality of the raw material - the grapes and the impact on ...
Fundamentals of Viticulture
In the "Fundamentals of Viticulture" course, students gain knowledge about the state and trends in the development of viticulture in Bulgaria, Europe and the world, the distribution and importance of the vine plant. They study the morphological, anatomical and physiological features of the vegeta ...
Technologies in viticulture
In the "Technologies in Viticulture" discipline, students receive detailed theoretical information on modern aspects of vine agrotechnics. In the training process, they learn practical skills for vine propagation, the production of grafted vines and the creation of new vines.
A major place ...
Technologies for perennial crops production- part Viticulture
Viticulture is an applied science that studies and indicates ways to guide the development of the vine plant to obtain high, stable and quality grape yields. Through the lectures and exercises, the students in Agricultural Engineering will be able to obtain the necessary knowledge on vine biology ...
Viticulture and Winemaking
Viticulture is an applied science that studies ways to guide the development of the vine plant, to obtain quality grape yields.
Through the lectures and exercises, the students of the specialty "Agrarian Tourism" will be able to obtain the necessary knowledge about the vine biology, environ ...
Perennial crops - part Viticulture
In the discipline "Perennial crops" /Viticulture part/ students from the specialty Ecology and Environmental Protection get the necessary knowledge on the biology of the vine, as well as on the creation and cultivation of the vine plantations. Special emphasis is placed on the development of envi ...
Selection of perennial crops - Selection of the vine
In the training course "Selection of perennial crops" - Selection of vines, students will gain knowledge about the effectiveness of the various methods applied in obtaining new varieties - sexual hybridization, artificial mutagenesis, self-pollination (inbreeding), free pollination, as well as fo ...
Fundamentals of Fruit growing
The purpose of the course Fundamentals of Fruit growing is to give students basic knowledge about the morphological and biological features of fruit species grown in our country, the peculiarities of their fruiting, their specific requirements for ecological conditions, for their propagation and ...
Technologies in Fruit growing
The purpose of the course in Technologies in Fruit growing is to give students basic knowledge of fruit crops, the establishment and cultivation of orchards through the correct application of basic agrotechnical measures, maintenance of the soil surface, fertilization and irrigation.
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Fundamentals of Fruit growing in the tropics and subtropics
The aim of the course is to give the students knowledge about the morphological and biological features, as well as the economic importance of fruit crops from the temperate, subtropical and tropical zones. Establishment of orchards and agrotechnical measures for their cultivation. Major crops fr ...
Technologies in Fruit growing in the tropics and subtropics
The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge of the morphological and biological features, as well as the economic importance of fruit crops from the temperate, subtropical and tropical zones. Establishment of orchards and agrotechnical measures for their cultivation. Major crops f ...
Fruit growing and viticulture (part Fruit growing)
From the lectures and exercises on fruit growing, students get the necessary knowledge about fruit growing as a sub-branch of horticulture, which provides a relatively large share of the total production in the branch. It is essential for the country's economy. The curriculum gives students the o ...
Perennial crops (part Fruit growing)
In the discipline "Perennial crops" (part Fruit growing), students receive the necessary knowledge about the morphological and biological characteristics of fruit species grown in the temperate climate zone, their requirements for environmental factors, production of planting material, the establ ...
Fruit growing in the tropics and subtropics
The aim of the course of Fruit growing in the tropics and subtropics is to provide students with knowledge about the cultivation of deciduous and non-deciduous fruit species according to the climatic and soil conditions of tropical and subtropical regions.
Fruit crops are considered by grou ...
Pomology
The Pomology discipline introduces students to regionalized and promising Bulgarian and foreign cultivars, determined for the creation of new orchards in our country. The characteristic pomological marks of the fruits are studied. In the case of individual cultivars, great attention is paid to: t ...
Selection of perennial crops- Selection of fruit crops
The purpose of the discipline "Selection of perennial crops" in its part "Selection of fruit crops" is to expand the students' knowledge of fruit growing and pomology. This is done by getting to know the main steps of the selection and introduction of individual fruit species, with the peculiarit ...