Poultrymen from the Tuzla Canton (TC), Posavina Canton (PC), Zenica-Doboj Canton (ZDC), and Canton Sarajevo (CS) sent amendments to the proposed amount of incentives for 2023 in the poultry sector, which amount to 1.46 million BAM, to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry.
Numerous difficulties
President of the TC Poultry Farmers’ Association, Mevludin Kahvedzic, himself a poultryman for 20 years, says that it is not logical that, if the total funds for supporting agriculture from 106 million BAM in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH) have been increased to 164 million BAM, incentives for poultrymen in the FBiH amount to only 1.46 million BAM, that is, that the incentives from last year, which amounted to 10 pfennigs per “beak”, are increased to only 15 pfennigs per chicken.
“It is known what problems and difficulties poultrymen in the FBiH faced last year, from the energy crisis, i.e. the increase in the price of coal, firewood, and pellets for heating farms, to the drought and the increase in the price of corn and components for feeding chickens. Now we are at the back in terms of the number of incentives, and we are the only agricultural branch that is in the VAT system,” said Kahvedzic.
Telephone session
Last year, FBiH poultrymen, he adds, paid the state 30 million BAM in VAT.
“That is why we have every right to ask for an increase in incentives in all sectors of poultry production from 1.46 million BAM to 2 million BAM,” Kahvedzic pointed out.
In this regard, a telephone session of the Management Board of the Poultry Famers’ Association of TC was held, where, in addition to Kahvedzic, Almas Turbic, Senad Kovacevic, and Omer Habibovic supported the amendments to the Draft Law on Incentives in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry, Avaz reports.
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