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The Faculty of Agriculture and Economics is the oldest of the University of Agriculture faculties tracing its origins to the Agronomie Studies created in 1890 within the Faculty of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University of Cra-cow, which in 1923 was transformed into an independent Faculty of Agriculture of the Jagiellonian University. The Faculty was a basis for establi-shing a separate College of Agriculture in 1953.

There are over 3200 students enrolled in various programmes provided by the Faculty of Agriculture and Economics which offers both fuli time and part-time (weekend) programmes in the fields of:

• Agriculture (specialisations: Agroeconomics, Agrobiology, Agritourism),

• Management (specialisation: Marketing and Management in Food Eco-nomy),

• Environmental Protection,

• Economy.

Our major research areas are:

• studies on growth and development of different crops, interdependence of seed yield and selected plant morphological traits,

• cultivation of meadows and pastures, mountain farming, management of green areas,

• ecological microbiology of soil and water, eco-toxicology of soils - myco-toxins, nitrosamines,

• physiological bases of plant resistance to environmental stress,

• application of biotechnological methods for improvement in plant breeding, cytogenetics of crops,

• physico-chemical starch modifications, metal ions in the natural environment,

• productivity of crop rotations under various site conditions; ecology, distribution of weeds, weed control,

• fertilisation and yield quality; heavy metals in contaminated soils, utilisa-tion of industrial and municipal wastes in agriculture, new fertilisers,

• assessment of soil forming value of selected lithostratygraphic units of Carpathian Flysh, relations between soil properties (humus compound composition) and natural plant communities in mountain areas,

• marketing and market for agri-food products, multifunctional rural development,

• current State and perspectives for International agriculture development,

• agriculture and rural development in the European Union,

• sociology of rural areas and agriculture, some problems of rural development.