Today, agricultural producers from the area of zivinice will gather again in front of the city administration building, and as they announced, they will bring larger quantities of milk on their tractors.
Citizens were invited to join them and take the milk for free.
They also went out to protest last Monday due to disagreement with the rulebook on the distribution of funds intended to help spring sowing, and it is about the amount of 600,000 BAM.
Farmers are asking for this incentive to be paid in the amount of 200 BAM per milking head, but they have not received a return response from the city administration. For that reason, they will take to the streets again, and so that the milk would not end up on the street, fellow citizens are invited to take it.
The global economic crisis has also hit the agricultural sector in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), with food producers falling to their knees. They are forced to reduce production, and in the midst of spring sowing, they state that they are operating without a concrete plan. They emphasize that the government at all levels has not done enough to help them, which is why some have already organized protests.
Monday dawned in Zivinice in a sign of rebellion, where a group of farmers, more precisely dairy farmers and cattle breeders, held a protest rally. Several demands have been imposed on the city, cantonal, and federal authorities, and if they are not met, more drastic moves will follow.
We are primarily dissatisfied with the distribution of funds in the amount of 600.000 BAM, which the City Administration of Zivinice gave for use to all agricultural producers. They limited larger producers to 1.500 BAM. We held several meetings with the City Administration, but there was no progress. We want them to stand by us and change the injustice that is being done to us. So, we are asking for 360.000 BAM, or 200 BAM per milking parlor,” milk producer and one of the organizers of the protest, Eldin Glibanovic, stated.
”We started in front of the city administration of Zivinice, but we will not stop at this. We will move on until our demands are met. At this time and with these prices it is extremely difficult to be a farmer. If this continues, believe that half of the agricultural producers will give up production next year, that is, they will have to shut down,” says Suljo Smajic from Basigovci, who has been engaged in stock farming for many years, and currently has 40 head of cattle.
