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25 January 2024 The Chairman of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee in meeting with the representatives of livestock breeders' associations

25 January 2024 The Chairman of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee in meeting with the representatives of livestock breeders' associations

Thursday, 25 January 2024

Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee Chairman Marijan Risticevic Meets with Representatives of Livestock Breeders' Associations

Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee Chairman Marijan Risticevic met today in the National Assembly with representatives of several animal husbandry associations: Backa Topola Pig Breeders' Association, Sabac Cattle Breeders' Association, Subotica Limousin Cattle Breeders' Association, Central Serbia Breeders' Association, SPAS - Assembly of Producers of Agroprivreda Serbia, Association of Breeders of Autochthonous Breeds Eco Village Dudovica, Association of Milk Producers of Macvan District, Association of Sheep and Goat Breeders Sokobanja, Association of Farmers and Livestock Breeders of Serbia Cenej and Association "Opstanak" (“Survival”).

At today’s meeting with the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee Chairman, the representatives of animal husbandry associations (pig, cattle, sheep and poultry breeders) supported the initiative of the President of the Republic and the Committee’s conclusion appropriate conditions need to be created for the development of animal husbandry. The mere fact that in 2023, around 600 million euros worth of milk, meat and meat and dairy products were imported speaks volumes of the need for the fastest possible development of livestock production.

The participants of the meeting believe that our plant production should be aimed at the development of our livestock breeding and processing industry, and that subsidies, incentives and other measures should be linked to agricultural production in that direction, in order to obtain the highest possible income per hectare of agricultural land. For the participants, it is not acceptable that the state allocates around one billion euros per year for subsidies yet it is import-dependent in products from the livestock sector, and that therefore incentives should be used to bind hectares with conditional heads of cattle in order to reach the European average of one head per hectare of agricultural land, which is currently three times less in Serbia.

The participants of the meeting also believe that the "pushing" of certain agricultural holdings into passive status due to a few acres of occupied agricultural land should be stopped and an opportunity for correction should be allowed, which would require the adoption of a rulebook for the registration of areas in eAgrar as soon as possible, as well as the introduction of IACS and LPIS programmes into the Agrarian Payments Directorate, which would automatically calculate the reference area of agricultural land that is the subject of incentive payments during the processing of payment requests. In Serbia, that programme in the form of a pilot project was supported by IPA funds.

The association representatives expressed their desire to be received by the President of the Republic in the coming period to discuss problems in agriculture.

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