Forestry

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Aleksandar Martinovic received Brazilian Ambassador to Belgrade Jose Mauro Couto on Tuesday, thanking the government and the friendly people of Brazil for the country's abstention in a vote on a UN General Assembly resolution on Srebrenica.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Li Ming on Thursday to discuss a strong momentum in Sino-Serbian relations and an upcoming visit to Serbia by Chinese President Xi Jinping.

BUDAPEST - Serbian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Jelena Tanaskovic said on Friday in Budapest Serbian agricultural exports to Hungary were rising and that an agreement had been reached on raspberry exports to the country.

In Turkey's Mediterranean region and across the country, with a much harsher fire season than in previous years, the area burned this year has increased nearly nine-fold on average with the latest fires, according to an expert.

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Ljubljana – Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Food Jože Podgoršek took part in a virtual ministerial of the initiative for cooperation between China and Central and East European countries (17+1) on Wednesday focusing on forestry and its role in bioeconomy.

Earlier today, the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management, Branislav Nedimovic, paid a visit to several villages within the territory of Kosjeric municipality in Western Serbia and talked to the locals.

Serbian Gendarmerie police will strengthen their patrols in the area of Sremska Mitrovica, in the northern Vojvodina province, as conflicts between locals looking for lucrative and highly prized truffles risk getting out of control, the Interior Ministry said.

We have sufficient supplies of staple products from domestic produce to feed the nation over a long period of time, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry told bTV, Focus News Agency reported.

A hilltop site in Sarajevo's Sedrenik neighbourhood from which Bosnian Serb forces fired on the city during the wartime siege has been turned into a forest park which opened to the public on Friday.

The project was funded by Turkish General Directorate of Forestry and supported by other Turkish institutions and Sarajevo's Stari Grad municipality, in which the new park is located.

The Prime Minister of the Provisional Kosovo Institutions Ramush Haradinaj has appointed Dijana Zivic as the new Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Rural Development.
She replaced Nenad Rikalo, who was removed from office at the beginning of the month, Pristina press is reporting.