The educational and research program of the Specialization of Crop Science is designed to provide education of the undergraduate students in a wide range of issues which are referring to the cultivation of field crops like cereals, legumes, energy crops, cotton, tobacco, sugar beets, aromatic and medicinal plants. The main cognitive subjects of the specialization are ecology, ecophysiology, plant physiology, agricultural chemistry, plant biochemistry, weed science, integrated crop management of field crops, genetics, biochemical genetics, cytogenetics, quantitative genetics, classical breeding and the use of biotechnology in plant breeding, biometrics and experimentation, statistics, environmental protection and wetlands in agriculture. The research of the department of field crops and ecology is focused on investigating problems/questions that are related to plant physiology and biochemistry, genetics and breeding of the plants, agricultural practices, biology and control of weeds, agricultural ecology and study of the agricultural ecosystems.

The Field Crops and Ecology department includes four laboratories