ISHS Acta Horticulturae 429: XIII International Symposium on Horticultural Economics
POTENTIAL VOLUME OF VINE GROWING IN SLOVENIA ACCORDING TO NATURAL, TECHNOLOGICAL AND ECONOMIC CRITERIA |
| Author: | N. Zibrik |
| Abstract:
There are about 30,000 hectares of vine growing sites in Slovenia, of which only 23,000 hectares are planted with vineyards. Others are getting slowly overgrown as they are not suitable for any other kind of production. Government subsidies would be required to stop this process and revitalize vine growing sites which are suitable for the production of high quality grapes. Two thirds of present vineyards lie on slopes above 20%; and 37% are on slopes above 45%. Among the unexploited sites, more than 40% are situated on slopes steeper than 45%. Our research indicates that grape production on slopes above 30% is not profitable and that, at the given market conditions, the agrarian policy goal of expansion of vineyards will be impossible to achieve without government assistance. Without government assistance vineyards on steeper slopes will probably be abandoned. Our estimates of required government subsidies for the production on slopes between 30 and 50% are between $300 and 600/ha and on steeper slopes between $1000 and 1600/ha. | |
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