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Friday, 25 November 2016
Seventh Sitting of the Subcommittee for Monitoring the Agricultural Situation in the Marginal - Most Undeveloped Areas in the Republic of Serbia
At the seventh sitting, held on 25 November, the members of the Subcommittee for Monitoring the Agricultural Situation in the Marginal - Most Undeveloped Areas in the Republic of Serbia reviewed the dangers of nodular dermatitis and other animal diseases, and the situation in livestock breeding.
Miodrag Milkovic, Chairman of the Executive Board of the Veterinary Chamber of Serbia, said that the public is poorly informed about nodular dermatitis i.e. lumpy skin disease, and that they have issued appeals as early as February 2016 when the disease appeared in Turkey, spreading to Macedonia and Bulgaria. He also said that some veterinary stations lacked the funds to go out in the field and that they needed financial support, adding that Surdulica and Bujanovac have no veterinary stations. He also urged for pest control because insects play a big role in the spread of the disease among cattle.
Speaking of the state-of-play in the veterinary services, Subcommittee Chairman Milija Miletic said that Serbia has 348 veterinary stations, 624 veterinary clinics, 17 veterinary stations tied up in bankruptcy proceedings and two stations, in Bujanovac and Lebane, not in the privatisation process due to the large transports of animals in these districts. Serbia has about 3500 veterinarians, but the privatisation of veterinary stations has been poorly done.
Gradimir Milosavljevic, doctor of veterinary medicine from Svrljig, commended the veterinarian service in the field noting its professional and responsible response to the outbreak of nodular dermatitis.
The sitting was chaired by Subcommittee Chairman Milija Miletic, and attended by MPs MA Marko Milenkovic, Zvonimir Djokic, Ivana Nikolic and Marija Janjusevic.
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9.00 - consultations of representatives of the parliamentary groups about the election of deputy chairpersons of the National Assembly working bodies (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, hall 1)
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10.00 - visit of the students of Stevan Dukic Elementary School to the National Assembly House (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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11.00 - visit of the students of Drinka Pavlovic Elementary School Student Parliament to the National Assembly House (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square)
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11.00 - press conference of the Green-Left Front – Don’t Let Belgrade D(r)оwn Parliamentary Group (National Assembly House 13, Nikola Pasic Square. Central Hall)
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13.00 - the National Assembly Speaker meets with the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China to the Republic of Serbia (National Assembly House, 13 Nikola Pasic Square, Speaker’s Cabinet)