Organic Cultivation of Lemon Ballm （Melissa officinalis） in Macedonia.pdfVIP

JournalofAgriculturalScienceandTechnologyB3(2013)769—775 Earliertitle：JournalofAgriculturalSciencena dTechnology，ISSN 1939-1250 I墨H lN 每 OrganicCultivationofLemonBallm (Melissaofficinalis) inMacedonia LjupchoMihajlov，VericaIlieva，NatalijaMarkovaandVaskoZlatkovski DepartmentofPlantProduction，FacultyofAgriculture，GoceDelchevUniverisyt,89，GoceDelchevstr．，Shtip2000,Republicof Macedonia Received：September3，2013／Published：November2O，2013 Abstract：Thepossibilityforperspectivegrowingofmedicina1．aromaticandspiceplnats．cna beexpectedonlyiftheircultivationis basedontheprinciplesoforgna icfarming．Thecultivationofthisgroupofplna tsisusuallyassociatedwithsatisfactoryyieldlevel nadrawmaterialswithuniforltlquality．ThisPaDercontaiasthemostimportnatfeaturesoflemonbalm (MelissaoJficinalis)，nad methodsofcultivation．Dataoftwona nualactivitiesraepresentednadtheyarerelatedwithorganicsystem ofcultivationinthe centralpartofMacedonia．Theobjectiveofthisstudyistonaalyze．detemr inenaddemonstratetheeconomicviabilityoflemonbalm organicproductionwithirrigation．Inthefirstyera，therewereonlytwomoving，yielding500kg／haofabove-groundplantdrymass． Inhtesecondyear，therewerethreemoving，yielding6，775kg／haofabove．groundplna tdrymass．Economicnaalysisisprovedthat profitabilltyinorgnaicallyproducedlemonbalm isobtainedinthesecondyearofgrowingwhentheprofitreached$6．150h／a． Keywords：Organic，lemonbalm，yield，pofitability 1．IntrOductiOn needsdependprimarily on herbalmedicine [3]． Approximately two thirds of the 50，000 different MemberoftheLamiaceae(mint)family，lemon medicinalplantspeciesinusearecollectedoutinthe balm (Melissaofficinalis)belongstoagenuswhich