Institute of Horticulture

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The Department of Horticulture was created by the organizational merger of two departments, namely the Department of Vegetables and the Department of Fruit, Viticulture and Enology of FHLE SAU in Nitra.

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Study 

Students are taught at all three levels, i.e. bachelor's, engineering and doctoral.

A graduate of the bachelor's study program has knowledge at the level of synthesis of knowledge in the field of horticulture - vegetable growing, floriculture, fruit growing, viticulture and winemaking, including key concepts, technological procedures and management of horticultural production with regard to the sustainable use of the landscape and its care. In accordance with his study program, he can use the acquired knowledge and skills from horticulture management. The graduate can organize and ensure production processes and make managerial decisions in the cultivation of horticultural crops, including the application of nutrition with regard to the safe cultivation of plants in the field of fruit growing, viticulture, floriculture, vegetable growing, spice and aromatic plants. It controls the basic processes of grape processing and grape wine production. Uses managerial approaches, information technologies and methods of solving specific professional problems, finds connections and formulates conclusions that can be used for further development. Graduates will be employed as technical workers in horticultural operations, as consultants in the application of propagation technologies, treatment of vegetables, fruit and ornamental trees and grape vines. They will also find employment as assistant technologists in the cellar economy. They also find employment as professional clerks in state and public administration. The graduate can also work as a specialist in all forms of horticultural production, marketing, trade, processing, research and education.

A graduate of the Horticulture engineering study program  (MSc.) has extensive professional and methodological knowledge in individual areas of horticulture with a comprehensive overview of the knowledge profile of horticultural production, from the quality of production of raw materials to the most modern methods of their application. He is familiar with new technologies both domestically and internationally. In connection with rural development, the graduate is able to propose, implement and evaluate solutions to problems related to horticulture, including the application of knowledge in accordance with his study program in the field of vegetable growing, floriculture, fruit growing, viticulture, winemaking and the production of minor crops. It uses managerial approaches, information technology and uses biometric methods in data processing. He has innovative thinking and knows how to professionally present the results of his own analysis and studies in front of a professional audience. He knows the ethical, social, legal and economic context of the field and is ready for interdisciplinary cooperation.

Graduate of the Horticulture study program in III. degree (PhD.) of the Horticulture study program master the scientific methods of solving the tasks of horticulture, research, its individual branches such as fruit growing, viticulture, wine growing, vegetable growing, floriculture and nursery production. He participates in a set of scientific projects, which he manages on a professional and scientific level. In the course of his studies, he learns the principles of independent and team work, masters scientific methods, basic experimental research, scientific analysis and synthesis of results with their projection into new technologies. He is capable of creative work, he responds to domestic but also international project challenges and knowledge, which he later uses in the field of science and research. He can speak at international conferences, present scientific publications, process research, and formulate conclusions. It is ready to process and submit projects, grants with the theme of horticultural primary production in the sphere of basic and applied research. Graduate III. degree of the Horticulture study program acquires knowledge from various areas at the level of an independent manager in the field of horticulture, and is also able to prepare documents for the implementation of the design of orchards, vineyards and cellar technology.

Science, research and outreach to practice

The Institute's research focuses on several areas of the horticulture sector. In the fruit, vine and wine sector, the areas are evaluation of the impact of climate change on selected elements of the growing technology of fruit species, technological aspects of the efficiency of fruit production and the impact of growing technology on the quality of grapes and the quality of must and wine produced from them.

In the vegetable production sector, this is the area of ​​vegetable production and its impact on human health. Knowledge from the department's scientific and research activities is applied in agricultural practice. The main focus is on the verification of new technologies for growing selected types of vegetables, spice and aromatic plants and economically important mushrooms, monitoring the impact of nutrition and fertilization on the quantitative and qualitative parameters of the harvest. It also deals with the promotion of lesser-known types of vegetables, as well as the verification of new varieties with an emphasis on their importance in human nutrition.

Offer of services for practice:

• development and implementation of commercial intensive orchard planting projects

• development and implementation of projects for planting municipal eco-gardens

• revitalization of fruit trees in the inner village and extra village of the village

• development and implementation of vineyard planting projects

• basic analytical analysis of grape musts and grape wine

• development of integrated protection projects against diseases and pests of fruit trees and vines

• development of wine route projects within the microregion

• vegetable growing technologies in field conditions

• vegetable growing technologies in covered areas

• propagation technologies and seed production of horticultural plants

• post-harvest technologies and storage

• evaluation of the quality of horticultural products

• bioactive substances and human health

Zoznam pracovníkov:

Vedúci ústavu - doc. Ing. Alena Andrejiová, PhD.
Sekretariát - Henrieta Budayová

prof. Ing. Miroslava Kačániová, PhD.
doc. Ing. Štefan Ailer, PhD.
doc. Ing. Ivana Mezeyová, PhD.
doc. Ing. Ján Mezey, PhD.
doc. Ing. Oleg Paulen, PhD.
doc. Ing. Miroslav Šlosár, PhD.
Ing. Marcel Golian, PhD.
Ing. Eduard Pintér, PhD.
Ing. Ján Farkaš, DiS. art.
Ing. Jakub Mankovecký, PhD.
Ing. Marianna Schwarzová, PhD.

Ing. Lucia Galovičová, PhD.

Alena Mesárošová
Vladimíra Froncová

Ing. Natália Čmiková – PhD student

Ing. Martin Janás – PhD student

Ing. Adrián Selnekovič - PhD student

Ing. Ivana Kollárová - PhD student

prof. RNDr. Alžbeta Hegedüsová, PhD. - professor emeritus

Obrazová galéria

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