MoodleHISTORY OF THE FACULTY OF AGRICULTURE AND FOOD SCIENCES
The
Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences in Sarajevo proudly bears the name of the
oldest secular institution in the domain of higher education in Bosnia and
Herzegovina. On March 21st, 1940, the Ministry of Education of the
Kingdom of Yugoslavia issued a legally valid decree to found the Faculty of Agriculture
and Forestry in Sarajevo as a separate faculty with two departments, Department
of Agriculture and Department of Forestry. Classes at the faculty started by
the end of January 1941 and they lasted until the outbreak of war in April that
same year. Although the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia never
officially dismissed the Faculty, it was devastated and consequently closed
until the end of the Second World War and the liberation of country.
By the end of 1946, a board of
experts was established, consisting of A. Ogrizek, PhD, professor D. Nikolić,
PhD, V. Drecun, engineer, Vukavić, PhD, B. Vukičević, engineer of architecture
and I. Šmalcelj, the representative of Independent Republic Bosnia and
Herzegovina’s Ministry of Agriculture. The board was in charge of finding the
necessary facilities where to situate the school as well as research
facilities. They selected the building at Zagrebačka street, 18, Grbavica. The
Faculty remained located on the above mentioned address until the outbreak of
war in 1992.
The Government of Federative
Independent Republic of Yugoslavia accepted a proposition to found Confederate
Agricultural College for Mountain Landscape Management in Sarajevo made by Vaso
Čubrilović, PhD, occupying the position of Minister of Agriculture in
Confederate Government and on December 31st, 1946 Yugoslavian
Government issued a decree by which this College was founded.
According to the founding decree and
the statute concerning organization, lasting and functioning of this college,
it has been determined that the Confederate Agricultural College for Mountain
Landscape Management in Sarajevo is an independent institution of higher
education at faculty level which offered a programme lasting four years or in other
words, eight semesters. The school curriculum encompassed all branches of
Agricultural science with special emphasis on the branches which were of
special importance for the development and improvement of agricultural
production in hilly and mountainous regions. A commission of professors- founders
was set up in order to select the first three teachers. This commission
appointed first teachers of Agricultural College for Mountain Landscape
Management in Sarajevo, two full professors: Dragomir Ćosić, PhD, the head of the Confederate Institute
for Agricultural Research and the head of the Department for Scientific Work
and Professional Training in Belgrade, Nikola Zdanovski, PhD, senior lecturer at
the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in Zagreb and the head of Animal
Science Institute in Zagreb; and one associate professor Fahrudin Hrasnica,
PhD, Counselor for Animal Science at the Ministry of Agriculture of Independent
Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.
In 1958 the Faculty of Agriculture
and Forestry in Sarajevo, with the recommendation of Confederate National
Assembly, introduces three fields of studies in its Agricultural Department, agriculture,
fruit and wine growing and cattle breeding. In the academic year 1958/59,
students who were at their first or second years of studies were instructed to
choose one of these three fields of
studies and specialize in it, whereas students who were at their third or
fourth years of studies followed the previously adopted programme without
specializing in a specific field of studies. As of the academic year 1977/78,
and with the recommendation of the Faculty Council, another department was
founded, the Department for processing and control of agricultural products. In
the academic year 1988/89, the name of the department was changed into
Department of agricultural and food products technology. In accordance with
Council’s decree dating from 1983, a section of the Department of Fruit and
Wine Growing from the Faculty of Agriculture in Sarajevo was established in
Mostar in the academic year 1983/84.
The Faculty suffered severe damage
at the very beginning of the 1992-1995 war. It was robbed and burned to the
ground. The Faculty has also lost half of its staff, which meant that the
reconstruction had to be done from scratch. By getting and equipping of building
in the ex-army barracks ‘Maršal Tito’,
nowadays known as Sarajevo University Campus, conditions, though humble, were
created, so that the Faculty could continue its crucial mission, which remained
manifold and manifested itself through educating experts and continuing
scientific and professional work in the field of agriculture and food industry.
Today,
the Faculty offers postgraduate programmes in 12 different fields: Agriculture,
Fruit Growing, Wine Growing, Plant protection-phytomedicine, Domestic Animals
Nutrition, Agricultural and Food Industry Economics, Plant Products Technology,
Animal Products Technology, Sustainable Soil Management, Food and Drinks
Quality Control, Growing of Vegetables in Protected Area and Production
and use of flowers and ornamental plants. As of the academic year 2008/2009, the Faculty
introduced Graduate (Master's) programmes, designed to conform to the standards
of the Bologna process.
As of the academic year 2005/6, the Faculty
offers three-year undergraduate programmes of studies, created in accordance
with the Bologna process. At the four Departments operating at the Faculty
(Plant Science, Zootechnics, Food Technologies and Agricultural and Food
Industries Economics), there are six programmes: Fruit and Wine Growing, Agriculture
and Vegetable Growing, Animal Science, Food Technologies, Agricultural and Food
Industry Economics. As a result of cooperation between Faculty of Agriculture
and Food Science and Biology Department at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and
Mathematics, both at the Sarajevo University, another undergraduate programme
has been created, known under the name of Aquaculture.
By
the end of 2006, Faculty changes its name into the Faculty of Agriculture and
Food Sciences. The Faculty offers a postgraduate programme as a separate unit.
This programme is a result of a need to
provide education and programmes which lead to the academic title of Master of
Science for those experts who will be engaged in scientific and research work
at the institutions of higher education and elsewhere. In order that
postgraduate programme matches its purpose, it has been given enough space to
those disciplines and teaching materials.
The Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences in Sarajevo proudly bears the name of the oldest secular institution in the domain of higher education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. On March 21st, 1940, the Ministry of Education of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia issued a legally valid decree to found the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in Sarajevo as a separate faculty with two departments, Department of Agriculture and Department of Forestry. Classes at the faculty started by the end of January 1941 and they lasted until the outbreak of war in April that same year. Although the authorities of the Independent State of Croatia never officially dismissed the Faculty, it was devastated and consequently closed until the end of the Second World War and the liberation of country.
By the end of 1946, a board of experts was established, consisting of A. Ogrizek, PhD, professor D. Nikolić, PhD, V. Drecun, engineer, Vukavić, PhD, B. Vukičević, engineer of architecture and I. Šmalcelj, the representative of Independent Republic Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Ministry of Agriculture. The board was in charge of finding the necessary facilities where to situate the school as well as research facilities. They selected the building at Zagrebačka street, 18, Grbavica. The Faculty remained located on the above mentioned address until the outbreak of war in 1992.
The Government of Federative
Independent Republic of Yugoslavia accepted a proposition to found Confederate
Agricultural College for Mountain Landscape Management in Sarajevo made by Vaso
Čubrilović, PhD, occupying the position of Minister of Agriculture in
Confederate Government and on December 31st, 1946 Yugoslavian
Government issued a decree by which this College was founded.
According to the founding decree and the statute concerning organization, lasting and functioning of this college, it has been determined that the Confederate Agricultural College for Mountain Landscape Management in Sarajevo is an independent institution of higher education at faculty level which offered a programme lasting four years or in other words, eight semesters. The school curriculum encompassed all branches of Agricultural science with special emphasis on the branches which were of special importance for the development and improvement of agricultural production in hilly and mountainous regions. A commission of professors- founders was set up in order to select the first three teachers. This commission appointed first teachers of Agricultural College for Mountain Landscape Management in Sarajevo, two full professors: Dragomir Ćosić, PhD, the head of the Confederate Institute for Agricultural Research and the head of the Department for Scientific Work and Professional Training in Belgrade, Nikola Zdanovski, PhD, senior lecturer at the Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry in Zagreb and the head of Animal Science Institute in Zagreb; and one associate professor Fahrudin Hrasnica, PhD, Counselor for Animal Science at the Ministry of Agriculture of Independent Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo.
In 1958 the Faculty of Agriculture
and Forestry in Sarajevo, with the recommendation of Confederate National
Assembly, introduces three fields of studies in its Agricultural Department, agriculture,
fruit and wine growing and cattle breeding. In the academic year 1958/59,
students who were at their first or second years of studies were instructed to
choose one of these three fields of
studies and specialize in it, whereas students who were at their third or
fourth years of studies followed the previously adopted programme without
specializing in a specific field of studies. As of the academic year 1977/78,
and with the recommendation of the Faculty Council, another department was
founded, the Department for processing and control of agricultural products. In
the academic year 1988/89, the name of the department was changed into
Department of agricultural and food products technology. In accordance with
Council’s decree dating from 1983, a section of the Department of Fruit and
Wine Growing from the Faculty of Agriculture in Sarajevo was established in
Mostar in the academic year 1983/84.
The Faculty suffered severe damage
at the very beginning of the 1992-1995 war. It was robbed and burned to the
ground. The Faculty has also lost half of its staff, which meant that the
reconstruction had to be done from scratch. By getting and equipping of building
in the ex-army barracks ‘Maršal Tito’,
nowadays known as Sarajevo University Campus, conditions, though humble, were
created, so that the Faculty could continue its crucial mission, which remained
manifold and manifested itself through educating experts and continuing
scientific and professional work in the field of agriculture and food industry.
Today,
the Faculty offers postgraduate programmes in 12 different fields: Agriculture,
Fruit Growing, Wine Growing, Plant protection-phytomedicine, Domestic Animals
Nutrition, Agricultural and Food Industry Economics, Plant Products Technology,
Animal Products Technology, Sustainable Soil Management, Food and Drinks
Quality Control, Growing of Vegetables in Protected Area and Production
and use of flowers and ornamental plants. As of the academic year 2008/2009, the Faculty
introduced Graduate (Master's) programmes, designed to conform to the standards
of the Bologna process.
As of the academic year 2005/6, the Faculty offers three-year undergraduate programmes of studies, created in accordance with the Bologna process. At the four Departments operating at the Faculty (Plant Science, Zootechnics, Food Technologies and Agricultural and Food Industries Economics), there are six programmes: Fruit and Wine Growing, Agriculture and Vegetable Growing, Animal Science, Food Technologies, Agricultural and Food Industry Economics. As a result of cooperation between Faculty of Agriculture and Food Science and Biology Department at the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, both at the Sarajevo University, another undergraduate programme has been created, known under the name of Aquaculture.
By the end of 2006, Faculty changes its name into the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences. The Faculty offers a postgraduate programme as a separate unit. This programme is a result of a need to provide education and programmes which lead to the academic title of Master of Science for those experts who will be engaged in scientific and research work at the institutions of higher education and elsewhere. In order that postgraduate programme matches its purpose, it has been given enough space to those disciplines and teaching materials.