The importance of biostimulants in vegetable growing

Cijeli svijet se susreće sa problemom rastuće ljudske populacije i opskrbe iste sa dovoljnom količinom kvalitetne hrane uz istovremenu potrebu za smanjenjem negativnog utjecaja same proizvodnje na Zemljin okoliš. Znanstvenici smatraju da će se u idućim desetljećima taj problem samo povećavati i zato se provode intenzivna istraživanja o ekološki prihvatljivijim načinima uzgoja hrane. Jedno od mogućih rješenja je uvođenje biostimulatora kao tvari koje dokazano utječu na prinos, kvalitetu i otpornost biljaka bez štetnih utjecaja koje su dosadašnje metode nosile kao posljedicu intenzivnijeg uzgoja. Cilj rada je predstaviti glavne grupe biostimulatora, najnoviju zakonsku regulativu koja ih podupire, te istraživanja strane i domaće literature o njihovoj primjeni na najvažnijim povrtnim vrstama.The whole world is facing the problem of the evergrowing human population and supplying it with a sufficient amount of quality food, while at the same time needing to reduce the negative impact of the production itself on the Earth's environment. Scientists believe that this problem will only increase in the coming decades and that is why intensive research is being conducted on more environmentally friendly ways of growing food. One of the possible solutions is the introduction of biostimulators as substances that have been proven to affect the yield, quality and resistance of plants without the harmful effects that previous methods have shown as a result of more intensive cultivation. The aim of this paper is to present the main groups of biostimulators, the latest legislation that supports them and foreign and domestic research on their application on the most important vegetable species