1. Water resorces management strategy in rural areas development
Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra IMRD CASE STUDY „The EU Leader evaluation and self-evaluation techniques” 2011
Water resorces management strategy in rural areas development
prof. Edward Pierzgalski
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Faculty of Engineering and Environmental Sciences
Department of Land Improvement

2. Scheme of presentation
1. General information about Warsaw Agriculture of Life Sciences.
2. Water resources as an important factor of rural
areas development - various problems.

3. GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT WARSAW AGRICULTURE OF LIFE SCIENCES

4. Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego - SGGW
Warsaw University of Life Sciences
Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego - SGGW

5. POLAND Capital city: Warszawa Population: 38 million citizens
Area: , 685 km2
Official language: Polish
National flag: top-white bottom-red
National emblem: white eagle with a crown on a red setting
Neighbors: Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Slovakia, Russia, Ukraine

6. POLAND in brief - some historical data
Year Poland accepts Christianity
1025 Coronation of the fist Polish King – Bolesław Chrobry
1569 Poland-Lithuania; first Union in Europe
1772, 1793, 1795 Partition of Poland (between Russia, Austria and Prussia)
1918 Regaining of independence

7. SGGW - Warsaw University of Life Sciences
The oldest agricultural higher education institution in Poland
23 September – establishment of Institute of Agronomy in Marymont
1918 – renamed into Polish Royal Main School of Agriculture
nationalized and named Main School of Agriculture (Warsaw Agricultural University)
1945 – First University in Warsaw which revives its activity after II World War
Institute of Agronomy in Marymont

8. SGGW- campus today
Historical part of campus with Rectorate situated in XVIIIth century Palace

9. SGGW – campus today
All Faculties and other University Units are situated within one campus:
47 buildings – m classrooms – m laboratories – m2

10. SGGW – campus today Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Faculties of Forestry and Wood Technologies
Faculties of Human Nutrition and Food Technology

11. SGGW – public Higher Education Institution
SGGW offers the following diploma and degrees:
Bachelor of Sciences BSc.
Master of Sciences/Art MSc/MA.
Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
Doctor (PhD)
Doctor habilitated (Dr hab.)

12. SGGW – education Organization of the university educational system MSc

13. SGGW – education
At present: of the academic staff: including 250 full professors,
students (including full time students)
Number of full time students, PhD
and other graduate students in the last period
25000
28100
23110
20731
20000
16504
15000
13609
10000
10430
5000
1996
1998
2000
2002
2004
2009

14. SGGW – education Faculties: Agriculture and Biology - since 1919
Veterinary Medicine - since 1951
Forestry - since 1919
Horticulture and Landscape Architecture - since 1921
Engineering and Environmental Science - since 1951
Wood Technology - since 1951
Animal Sciences - since 1951
Agricultural Economics - since 1953
Food Technology - since 1961
Human Nutrition and Consumer Sciences - since 1977
Production Engineering - since 1977
Humanities – since 2006
Computer Science and Econometrics - since 2008

15. SGGW – education Interfaculty studies: Biotechnology - since 1994
Environmental Protection - since 1994
Regional Planning - since 1998
Commodity Science - since 2001
Tourism and Recreation - since 2003
MBA programs:
The International MBA Program IZMA-ESSEC: Agri-food Business - since 1994
The International MBA Program: Agribusiness Management - since 1996

16. SGGW – research
Scientific research carried out at SGGW by the 13 Faculties encompass the wide scientific problems related to areas of:
Agriculture
Forestry
Sustainable development of multifunctional rural environment
Biotechnology
Food and HumanNutrition
Animal Science and Veterinary
Environmental Science
Economics and Humanities
Environmental Protection and Engineering

17. SGGW -Warsaw Agricultural University
EXPERIMENT STATIONS

18. SGGW - Experiment Field Station for Plant Genetics,
Breeding and Biotechnology at Warsaw - Wolica
Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
Department of Plant Genetics, Breeding and Biotechnology
This object consists of:
Experimental fields of 8,5 ha
Experimental Greenhouses
Laboratory House for chemical analysis (5 laboratories)
Seeds Storage Room
Low Temperature Store
Didactic facilities (seminar room, exercise rooms, lecture room, work rooms)
Extension: Close cooperation with plant breeders,
seed companies, growers and processing companies

19. SGGW - Equine Clinic at Warsaw – Wolica
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
The Clinic has 3000 m2 surface and consists of:
50 posts for stationary treatment, 2 operation rooms, 4 laboratories
Additional facilities:
running track (for effort tests), menage, stable
pavilion for hypotherapy purposes
Services: 1. Hospital treatment of the horses from the whole Poland
2. Hippotherapy-handicapped children treatment

20. Horticultural Experiment Field Station at Warsaw – Wilanów
Faculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture
The field covers a total area of 36 ha in that in management inside:
Department of Pomology and Basic Natural Sciences in Horticulture ,5 ha
Department of Vegetable and Medicinal Plants ha
Department of Ornamental Plants ha.
Equipment:
4 Cold storage rooms with 50 t storage capacity each
4 small chambers of 6 t each
2 chambers with 15 small KA boxes 1m3 : different gas rations and different temperatures
Other facilities for specific problems.
Extension: close cooperation with fruit growers and processing companies

21. SGGW - Experiment Forestry Station in Rogów
Faculty of Forestry
Established in 1972,
Land use:Forests – 3482 ha, Fields - 85 ha, Arboretum – 56 ha, Ponds - 7 ha, Others – 61 ha, Total ha
Production: wood per year: timber m3, palpwood – 3000 m3, fuel wood 1700 m3, seedlings
Research:
1.The Arboretum
established in 1925; Covers 54 ha
three parts from the very beginning build for research-educational purposes:
the dendrological collection (22 ha),
forest experiment plots (18 ha),
alpine garden (1,5 ha)
2. The Forest
3. The Nursery
4. The Game Breeding Centre
Equipment:
2 cold storage plant 100 m2 each – T -1ºC
1 cold storage plant 50 m2 – T -5ºC
Green house 270 m2
12 foil tunnels 180 m2 each
Watering system

22. SGGW - Experiment Forestry Station in Rogów
Education
The Centre for Nature-Forest Education
Training facilities:
Auditory for 210 persons
2 seminar room for 30 persons each
Seminar room for 16 persons
3 conference rooms for 60 persons each
Accommodation facilities:
Student’s canteen for 120 person
Dormitory for 170 persons
Hunter’s house for 7 persons

23. SGGW - Agricultural Experiment Station in Żelazna
Faculty of Agriculture and Biology
Agricultural Experiment Station in Żelazna is situated 90 km south from Warsaw
Production: Potatoes for chips, carrot, been, corn, grain
Mainly potatoes and vegetables - 70% of total crop
Land use: Facilities:
Fields – 325 ha Dormitory for 13 persons
Ponds – 13 ha Conference room for 60 persons
Meadows – 12 ha Canteen for 60 persons
Forests – 18 ha 2 Guest’s rooms for 2 persons each
Others – 18 ha
Infrastructure: Animal breeding
Potato storage magazine for 3500 t 3 herds of old Polish breed of sheep
Carrot storage magazine for 700 t Fish production in pounds
Cool storage plant for 100 t
Green house 520 m2
Extension activities connected with carrot and potatoes production: Open Days

24. SGGW - Agricultural Experiment Station Wilanów-Obory
Agricultural Experiment Station Wilanów-Obory is situated 5 km from the campus of Warsaw Agricultural University
Production: Land use:
Rape– 110 ha Fields – 758 ha
Wheat – 250ha Ponds – 22 ha
Potatoes – 140 ha Meadows – 93 ha
Others corn, meadows, vegetables, cattle, chicken, pigs Forests –143 ha
Orchards – 20 ha Total area 1036 ha
Infrastructure: Animal breeding:
Cow – house for 180 cows Cattle cows
Veterinary clinic
Pigsty under construction Facilities:
Chicken house under construction Dormitory
Equipment: Planned Investments:
Combine harvester for grain Cllas Pig house
Combine harvesters for grass Chicken house
Line for potatoes production and storage Management of ponds 11 ha each (fish production)
Field watering system

25. SGGW- Agricultural Experiment Station in Skierniewice
Faculty of Agriculture and Biology
Agricultural Experiment Station in Skierniewice is situated 70 km south from Warsaw
Facilities: Land use: Fields – 59 ha
Guest rooms for 30 persons
Kitchen,2 Seminar rooms Equipment
Vegetation hall for 1000 pots 2 Combine harvester for grain
Weather station Tillage sets
Sprinkler
Cooperation:
Vegetable Institute,Warsaw University of Technology,Biotechnology Institute
Planned investment and direction of research: Organic farm and organic food