Agriculture in Bosnia and Herzegovina has been developing rapidly in the past several years, especially in terms of export, even in the most demanding countries of the European Union.
Nedžad Bićo from the Federation of Agricultural Associations of FBiH said that the growing of raspberries and cornichons is especially on the rise. Such rapid development of agriculture in BiH was contributed to by the difficult economic situation and the increasingly popular life in the countryside. Such trend spread on BiH from the EU.
“People realized that working in the countryside is very decent and profitable and that it gives a certain pleasure,” Bićo said.
Furthermore, Bićo said that some people leave for countryside and sow for their personal need, and there are many of those who launch more serious agricultural production. Bićo added that with serious dedication and engagement, one can earn in the countryside in several months as much as one can earn in the city for a year.
Vladimir Usorac, president of the Association of Agricultural Producers of Republika Srpska, said that results in the BiH agriculture could be much better, but that certain adequate agricultural strategies are missing, as well as the protection of domestic products and adequate education for agricultural producers.
“BiH authorities must start working on the education of agricultural producers, in parallel with different kinds of stimulation and protection of domestic production,” Usorac said.
Federal Institute for Statistics stated that total agricultural production in FBiH in 2015 is by 16.5 percent greater than in 2014. Plant production increased by 22.2 percent and animal production by 7.6 percent in comparison with 2014.
(Source: nap.ba/ photo rtvbn)
