Library ISTIA, Nitra

ISTIA obtained the Statute of FAO Depository Library in November 1993,when Slovakia became a regular member of FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations).
Since that time the Depository Library has received one copy of every publication issued by FAO in printed form.

Divisions of the Depository Library Fund according to thematic fields:

0. Agriculture
(research, agrarian reform, tenure, mechanization)

1. Crop production. Crop protection
(genetics, breeding, seeds, diseases and pests, processing and storage of crop products)

2. Animal production. Animal health
(genetics, breeding, nutrition and feeding, poultry breeding, dairy, processing and storage of animal products, animal health, veterinary medicine)

3. Forestry
(genetics, breeding, seeds and nursery material, afforestation and forest protection, lumbering, forest products, timber industry, pulp and paper mills)

4. Fisheries
(legislation, biology, fish resources, aquaculture, sea and river pollution, storage, transport and marketing of fishery products)

5. Soil science
(soil research, soil use, protection and fertilization of soil, fertilizer application, water management, irrigation and drainage, building on land and water)

6. Economic and social development
(agricultural management and marketing, agricultural banks, credit policy and investment, rural development, food security, food aid, advisory services, domestic economy)

7. Statistics
(yearbooks for crop production, forestry, fisheries, agricultural inputs, foods, nutrition, markets)

8. Nutrition and food industry
(food research, processing and labelling of foods, food legislation and protection, additives)

9. Legislation. Terminology. General information about FAO

FAO PERIODICALS

	Periodicity	Price
Agrindex (Bibliographic information about current literature from AGRIS database)	12 x	(500.- USD)
Ceres (Current issues of agriculture, forestry, fisheries and nutrition in developing countries)	6 x	(30.- USD)
Food and Agricultural Legislation (law and governing regulations in the food industry and agriculture in FAO Member States)	1 x	(26.- USD)
FAO Quarterly Bulletin of Statistics (Statistics on world food industry and agriculture)	4 x	(15.- USD)
Unasylva (International Journal of Forestry and Forest Products)	4 x	(26.- USD)
World Animal Review (animal production, animal health and animal products)	4 x	(26.- USD)

Non-periodical literature

monographs
statistics
reports from conferences
reports from sessions of expert groups
legislation
terminological dictionaries
directories