VOL. 12, NO. 3, MARCH 2017 ISSN 1990-6145 ARPN Journal of Agricultural and Biological Science © 2006-2017 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN). All rights reserved. www.arpnjournals.com 102 DETERMINATION THE CONCENTRATION OF THE HEAVY METALS IN THE CULTIVATED CHERRIES IN THE TERRITORY OF MITROVICA WITH ICP-OES TECHNIQUE Skender Miftari 1 , Sadija Kadriu 2 , Mensur Kelmendi 2 , Mehush Aliu 2 , Blerim Baruti 2 and Sabri Hajdini 2 1 The Main Center of Family Medicine, Department-Laboratory, Mitrovicë, Kosovë 2 University of Mitrovica’Isa Boletini’ Faculty of Food Technology, Mitrovicë, Kosovë E-Mail: sadija.kadriu@umib.net ABSTRACT It is known that all the vegetables and fruits that are in nature constantly are under the influence of external of natural and anthropogenic factors. Such influence also reflected to the cultivated fruits of cherries in Mitrovica and surroundings. Therefore, our object of study is to explore the degree of concentration of some heavy metals in cherries fruit, as a result of the impact of the chain-industrial activity has developed and continues to develop today in a lesser extent in Combine "Trepça”. In this paper we have chosen to site-sampling Kelmend village, which is located in the north- eastern part of Mitrovica and neighborhoods Bair and '2 Korriku,' which are boroughs in the southern part of Mitrovica. We are set for this network monitoring for the fact that in the village Kelmend is landfill with industrial waste from the process of processing the Pb-Zn ore and two neighborhoods cited above, which are and may be affected by the landfill PIM in Shupkovc. The research methodology we based on the analytical technique ICP-OES in order to assess more accurately how the concentration of heavy metals in the cherry fruit. Keywords: cherry, degree of concentration, heavy metals, mitrovica. INTRODUCTION That is fundamentally knowing that the Mitrovica region is rich with underground minerals, as As, Cd, Cu, Fe, Hg, Pb, Zn, etc; therefore the exploitation and processing industry of these metals started since the early 30s of the last century until today, has contributed directly and indirectly to pollution and environmental damage to the balance including air, water and land. As a result of weather changes (rain, wind, sunning) heavy metals can pass into drinking water sources, in food products and due to the high toxicity that can cause serious consequences for human health, so therefore it is imperative that their presence be maintained, always, under control [1]. Based on the data from the WHO [7] we understand that the region and the city of Mitrovica, it has been in the past, one of the most polluted countries in Europe. Contamination or heavy metal pollution has occurred and is found in agricultural products, in fruit and vegetables, in animal and other living things, all these together on human health. It is known that after 90`s the rate of exploitation and industrial processing in combine "Trepça" has declined, therefore such a thing has contributed to reducing the level of pollution with heavy metals in agricultural products. Despite this, during our research has found a very large contamination of soil with heavy metals in three sampling points: Kelmend and neighborhoods Bair and “2 Korriku” [4]. The soil is generally great absorbent of heavy metals, especially the upper humus layer with depth of 20cm, which is the most productive layer, most nutrient of the soil [3]. The improvement, to some extent, of environment in Mitrovica and industrial decline motivated the people to return to farming activity, especially in the cultivation of plantations with fruits and vegetables. Although we do not have precise information on the number of plots planted with cherry, in order to correct evaluation of the level of concentration of heavy metals, we focused on cherries grown near industrial landfill (Kelmend and PIM). Based on the scientific opinions of T. Thomas and D. Çakallit, trees depending on family, gender, but also types have a different variety of absorption of heavy metals [2], while as compared to other fruits, cherry entered in the group of trees that absorb less heavy metal [5]. MATERIAL AND METHODS During the research we have tried to present as accurately the degree of concentration and heavy metal content of the cherries grown in Mitrovica with the surroundings. Points of the sampling and their coordinations are appeared in the Table-1 but the monitoring network in Figure-1.