…in the soil is the beginning, in the soil is the end, and everything in between!!!

ACADEMICIAN FERDO BAŠIĆ

• Full Member of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Full Member of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences
• Professor Emeritus, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Agriculture

Guiding Thought:

As heritage and a Gift of the Creator/Nature, soil is the foundation of survival, the guarantee of sustainable economic development and progress of the Croatian people within their historical territories.

In gratitude to the Giver/Nature, sustainable soil management and protection should be woven into our consciousness and accepted as a historical responsibility of the present generation toward past and future generations.

Inspiration in Lifelong Work:

The Croatian people, in the truest sense of the word, “live from the land.” On their part of the pedosphere they built their life in the past, and upon it they will continue to build it in the future. The soils of Croatia are the greatest treasure of the Croatian people; they are an inexhaustible source of their strength and the foundation of the Croatian homeland… to know them means to know the foundations upon which Croatia rests.

(Academician M. Gračanin, 1942)