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29 January 2024 The Chairman of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee in meeting with the representatives of the fruit and vegetable planters’ associations

29 January 2024 The Chairman of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee in meeting with the representatives of the fruit and vegetable planters’ associations

Monday, 29 January 2024

Marijan Risticevic Meets with Representatives of Fruit and Vegetable Planters’ Associations

Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee Chairman Marijan Risticevic met today, in the National Assembly House, with representatives of fruit and vegetable planters' associations - the Alliance of Associations Serbian Raspberry from Arilje, Vilamet from Arilje, Ekovoće from Arilje and Association Zlatni Breg from Nova Varos.

In the meeting with the Chairman of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee the associations of fruit and vegetable planters endorsed the efforts of the President of the Republic of Serbia to create conditions for intensive agricultural production and create greater value in agricultural production by 2027, as well as the earlier conclusions of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee directed toward that end. As fruit producers who had achieved the best export results in 2022, they expressed concern about the poorer results in 2023, not only because of lower prices. As producers who achieve the best export result and the highest income per unit area, precisely because of periodic price instability, they believe that in the funds for incentives, a part should be set aside for seasonal interventions in order to preserve the income security of fruit and vegetable farms in crisis periods, thus preserving the stability and continuity of production. The drop in the value of fruit and vegetable exports is worrying, as are some of the state's actions related to the distribution of incentives and regulations that do not facilitate production and export. They are dissatisfied with the knowledge that they were not included in the announced 17,000 RSD (a total of 35,000 RSD) increase in incentives per hectare, reserved for wheat farmers and that they were not included in the increase in direct payments per hectare.

Also, the participants believe that during the speedy introduction of eAgrar and registration of cadastral plots, the agricultural expert advisory services did not warn the farmers about the necessity of excluding occupied uncultivated parts of cadastral plots of agricultural land from the total area, which resulted in the placement of agricultural farms in a passive status. The associations believe that an opportunity for correction should be allowed instead of the passive status, and that in the future the Agrarian Payments Directorate should introduce IACS-LPIS programmes, which would automatically calculate the reference area of agricultural land that is cultivated and which is the subject of incentive payment. 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, especially in fruit and vegetable growing.

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  • 11.00 - sitting of the Defence and Internal Affairs Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 2)

  • 11.00 - sitting of the of the Committee on Education, Science, Technological Development and the Information Society (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 4)

  • 12.00 - opening of the exhibition marking 150 years since the birth of Mileva Maric Einstein (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Central Hall)

  • 12.00 - sitting of the Committee on the Judiciary, Public Administration and Local Self-Government (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

  • 13.00 - sitting of the Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management Committee (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 3)

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