State in Serbian agriculture not favourable

BELGRADE - The state in Serbia's agriculture sector is not satisfactory but the Ministry has come up with a plan for recovery, Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic said on Monday.

We are not satisfied with the state in cattle breeding, the number of farm animals and the way arable land is tilled either, the minister told reporters after the presentation of the report on the situation in agriculture in Serbia for the year of 2013.

Bogosavljevic-Boskovic said that the Strategy for the development of agriculture in the next ten years has been adopted, and added that the programmes for individual sectors would soon be adopted as well.

The report on the situation in the agriculture sector in Serbia for the year of 2013 presented on Monday is the first document of the kind to be released in the country and publication of such documents will from now on become a regular practice, she said and added that such reports with comprehensive data would be presented toward the middle of every next year.

The publication of such reports is a regular practice in all EU member countries and it offers a unified review of all implemented measures and the situation in the market of agricultural and food products for the previous year, she said.

We wish to improve the reporting of the public concerning the state in agriculture and the effects of the agricultural policy and rural development, Bogosavljevic-Boskovic underscored.

The drafting of the report on the state in agriculture in the Republic of Serbia in the year of 2013 is part of the project of support to the process of European integration in Serbia which is being realised in cooperation with the German...