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Our production sites are situated in Serbia, Bosnia, and Northern Macedonia organized as a plant nursery production chain and agricultural cooperative that is represented by Economic Cooperative Serbia.

Our extensive production process includes: 

• Trees, plants, and planting material propagation - by the means of growing from seeds, cuttings, and grafting, depending on the type of plant.
• Maintenance and management of the growing process - irrigation drop by drop, cutting, pruning, fertilizing, pest control, and disease management.
• Preparation and packing - lifting, storing in cold storage, packing, and preparing the plants to be shipped to our customers.
• Customer support - this includes services such as answering customer questions, resolving any issues or concerns that customers may have, or arranging a professional agricultural engineer for guidance throughout the beginning phases of the project.

As producers, we strive to stay up-to-date with the latest technology, techniques, and best plant growing practices, and respond to customer demands. For our customers, our goal is to produce high-quality plants efficiently and sustainably. By staying informed and keeping pace with industry trends, we aim to remain competitive and meet the changing needs of our customers.

Production of fruit trees and grapevine is a tradition in Serbia, Bosnia, and Northern Macedonia that our  fruit tree and grapevine producers have practiced and improved on for more than 50 years. One of the main points of our success is sharing experience and knowledge between our production chain achieving standardized and high-quality planting material.

Our production is more than 4.000.000 fruit trees [standard and mini fruit plants], around 1.000.000 berry plants per year, 1.000.000 grafted grape plants, and around 2.000.000 rose plants on 200 ha [494 acres] of land. 

For professional and industrial fruit growers we are producing two-year-old apple trees by ´KNIP´ [knip-boom] or tall spindle system, allowing the fruit producers to reach substantial yield in the first few years and reach the full yield earlier. Production of knip-boom trees takes at least two years to produce and we contract the production in advance including the specification of your order including the type of rootstock, variety and other details.

We at Economic Cooperative as fruit tree, berry, grape vines, and rose plants producers from Serbia, Bosnia, and North Macedonia supply you with carefully selected, safe and certified nursery material with Phyto, health, and all other required certificates and documentation.

KNIP or “knip-boom” is one of the most productive and best-known apple tree training systems for modern, professional and industry grade apple orchards. A KNIP apple tree is produced as a 3-year-old rootstock with a 2-year-old grafted apple variety and 1-year-old side-branches. The shape of a “knip-boom” tree is in the form of the main leader and multiple pre-formed lateral branches going outwards at a high angle, lower branches being longest and get shorter going up the top. The lateral branches are at least 20 cm in length, and the tree itself is 1,5 up to 2,20 m in height.

KNIP trees are produced by bench-grafting the selected apple variety onto selected 1-year-old rootstock and cut back “kniped” after nursing them for 1 full year. When branches start to grow the main leader is formed in the following year, together with cutting the excess lateral branches that overlap or are not going to be productive enough, pinch pruned and treated with phytohormones, all to achieve the recognizable cone shape formation of “knip-boom” tree with side branches on ideal height going outwards at a high angle so that the bending and tying of branches is not necessary. Knipboom trees are classified by the number of fruit-bearing side branches as 3+, 5+, 7+.

KNIP formed apple trees give fruit in the first year after planting (but not significant), and in the following year it is starting to give substantial yields, and up to full yields in the third and fourth year depending on overall conditions and technical measures taken in the apple orchard.

Some of the usual distances of trees in the apple orchard for a “knip-boom” system are 2,9-3,6 x 0,7-1,2 m depending on the terrain and MSL of a planned orchard. This can amount up to 4900 of apple trees per hectare.

Through modifications of this apple tree training system as a Slender Spindle or a very intensive Superspindle it is possible to obtain full and bigger yields very early, but only together in great accordance with all technical elements of growing apple trees like: spacing of plants in the orchard, climate zone, soil composition, agricultural technical measures, rootstock clone and fruit variety itself.

This system can be tailored to different varieties, but also to different species of fruit. The knipboom system is a long proven and adopted the practice in the fruit industry producing high and early yields and also a long exploitation life of an orchard.

Our apple KNIP apple trees incorporate knowledge, technical skills, raw materials, labor force, a substantial amount of time and thus producing a high-value fruit tree product for a professional and forward-looking apple producer.

We at Economic Cooperative invite you to get in contact with us as we are open to discussing a long-term production of KNIP apple trees to fulfill your detailed specification, industry standards, and production goals.

Our business at Economic Cooperative is mainly wholesale of fruit trees and plants, rose plants, grapevine plants, ornamental plants, and other plants as well. Our clients include commercial fruit producers, large fruit growers [current and future], international wholesalers and distributors, retail trade chains, exporters, individual producers, and others in Serbia, European Union (EU), Asia, Africa and countries worldwide.

Production of fruit trees, berry plants, rose plants and grapevine requires planning activities and projecting the market at least 2 years upfront. If your plant market or orchard investments require large quantities of plants and if you are planning a continuous supply, it is always better that you inform us about quantities and other specifications of plants in advance. This way, we at Economic Cooperative are able to produce seedlings exactly as you wish and provide you with the best quality planting material.

The usual practice in the production of plants, as in commercial fruit growing, but also in trade chain supply, is to have an estimated or designed plan with approximate or exact quantities of plants for next year or at least for next season (spring or upcoming autumn). Together with you, we are able to be precise with the required quantity of plants and we can produce exactly what you are looking for. 

We are also supplying wholesale quantities of plants at the moment of your inquiry.

Economic Cooperative's main business goal, as is also to our buyers, is the quality of products and services. In that, we personally strive to build relationships based on mutual trust as a base for prospective long-term business. Having this in mind, we at Econom Cop d.o.o. aim to the fulfillment of customer’s requirements and interests according to the buyer’s sales politics, and equally, a mutual fulfillment of all points of the agreement and contract as well.