For many years, we have been devoted to the development of a unique grafting technology that gives top quality hazelnut seedlings, excellent yield and longevity. Our seedlings of high-yielding varieties can be found on the plantations of large world producers of hazelnuts, but also on the successful family orchards.
OZZ Leska Dobrić
Technology based on knowledge
and devotion
Janko Janković, MSc Engineer of Agriculture, born in Šabac in 1970.
Undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad, majoring in Fruit Growing and Viticulture.
Master’s studies at the study program Growing Fruit and Vine, at the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad.
He started cooperation with PhD Professor Milovan Korać in the field of walnut planting material production and grafted hazel seedlings on Corylus colurna in 1993.
Started working on the selection of hazelnuts together with PhD Professor Milovan Korać, and the selection Alejas was singled out.
Has published several scientific papers in the field of hazelnut production in collaboration with PhD Professors Alessandro Roversi and Slobodan Cerović.
Janko Janković, MSc Engineer of Agriculture, founded the private nursery OZZ “Leska”, where he produces seedlings of various fruit species and is currently the largest producer of grafted hazelnuts in Serbia. OVDE BIH MOŽDA IZBACILA “Janko Janković, titula,” I PISALA SAMO OD “Founded…”
The nursery additionally has three engineers of agriculture who are available for consumers’ dilemmas, but also to control planting.
As a passionate nature lover and expert in the field of hazelnut production, I have built the world’s largest grafted hazelnut nursery on a family farm, which today supplies the entire region and a part of the world with the highest quality seedlings of unique hazelnut varieties. We invite you to visit us, contact us and make sure of the quality of our hazelnuts!
Nursery “Leska” is a certified producer of premium quality grafted hazelnut and walnut seedlings.
Design and complete technology for rising orchards
Mechanized orchard planting with the use of GPS
Professional supervision during production
“Leska” nursery is the holder of the exclusive right for reproduction
of the latest hazelnut variety Tonda Francescana, which was developed
and patented by our long-term partner – the Italian institute Università
degli Studi di Perugia.
This variety of hazelnuts is characterized by high yield, resistance, and
fruit quality. Its round fruits dry easier and faster and are adorned with
a distinct and full taste.
Created by crossing high-quality hazelnut varieties Tonda Gentile
Romana and Tonda di Giffoni, Tonda Francescana is one of the
highest quality Italian hazelnut varieties. Contact us for more information.
Plantations of future generations begin with the selection of quality hazelnut and walnut seedlings, which are a prerequisite for good yields. “Leska” team of experts and engineers is at your disposal for all information about hazelnut and walnut seedlings, conditions of sale, as well as for advice on raising orchards and growing this precious fruit.
Investing in the future always pays off. It certainly does, but it also carries a certain risk, insecurity and fear with it. We are here to ease your doubts, ensure your investment through the offer of the highest quality hazelnut and walnut seedlings, and to take you down the proven path of “future generations” fruit growing.
The mission of OZZ “Leska” nursery is to create the highest quality varieties of hazelnuts, walnuts and other selected fruits, combining science and tradition through a unique planting technology, and to provide its clients and partners with a fruitful future – both in terms of plantations and business development.
On the other hand, our vision was created by our founder Janko Janković, MSc Engineer of Agriculture, together with his professors back in 1993. By developing science and technology, and gathering the most colorful experts in one large OZZ “Leska” family we develop top quality products – seedlings, clones and fruits of the noble hazelnut and walnut, and thus we offer the world a unique quality that guarantees success and progress.
In Dobrić near Šabac, MSc Engineer of Agriculture Janko Jankovic, PhD Professors Milovan Korać and Slobodan Cerović, prominent experts who were the first in the world to graft hazel on Corylus colurna (1970) – a substrate for hazel that does not form root shoots, began producing unique varieties of grafted hazel in “Leska” nursery which now covers the area of 20ha.
Our product assortment includes 20 varieties and clones of hazelnuts and 11 varieties of walnuts.
Based on the proven quality of production, our nursery received the exclusive right to multiply the latest variety of hazelnut Tonda Francescana, which is a variety of the Italian institute Università degli Studi di Perugia. In addition to this unusually phenomenal variety, clones of the hazelnut varieties Tonda di Giffoni, Tonda Gentile delle Langhe and Tonda Gentile Romana have been added.
We are proud of more than 2.000 ha of hazelnut plantations in Serbia, Italy, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Croatia, Montenegro, but also of the cooperation with large world producers and processors of hazelnuts, scientific and educational institutions as well as small family plantations which achieve top results with our seedlings.
Hazelnut
Quality seedlings and properly selected varieties of hazelnuts are a basic prerequisite for long-lasting orchards of high yield. The following hazelnut varieties are grafted in the nursery of OZZ “Leska”, and in the process of grafting the characteristics of the desired noble variety are faithfully transferred to a new fruit – graft, which gives better and high quality seedlings that do not give shoots later in fruiting:
Tonda Fracescana
Tonda di Giffoni
Tonda di Giffoni CLON CTFL (KLON TOMBEZI)
Tonda Gentile Romana
Tonda Gentile Romana CLON 1
Tonda Gentile Romana CLON 3
Tonda Gentile delle Langhe
Tonda Gentile delle Langhe CLON AD – 17
Tonda Gentile delle Langhe CLON PD – 6
Tonda Gentile delle Langhe CLON MT – 4
Tonda Gentile delle Langhe CLON MT – 5
Nocchione
Halski džin
Pauetet
Fertile de Contard (Barcelona)
Ennis
Camponica
Purpurea maxima
Crvenolisni Lambert
Contorta
Walnut
High resistance and yield are the basic characteristics of quality walnut seedlings. As a part of the natural vegetation of our climate, but also a nutty fruit that bears the superior nickname “treasury of health”, walnut is increasingly popular for cultivation and investment that brings a secure income. In our nursery you can find seedlings of the following varieties of walnuts:
Rasna
Sava
Tisa
Srem
Šampion
Bačka
Kasni rodni
If you are only thinking about it or you are already planting hazelnuts and walnuts, contact us and take the opportunity to cooperate with the greatest experts in this field and get the support of the most experienced entrepreneurs, professional teams and hosts in our area
