Bosnia and Herzegovina has a huge, but only partially utilized potential for agricultural production. The reasons for this are numerous: from insufficient motivation to engage in agriculture among young people, questionable incentives to the need to introduce new technologies and methods that would accelerate the development of this area as well. The possibilities are numerous, and some of the development solutions were offered by expert papers presented at the International Expert Scientific Conference on the Green Agenda of the European Union and the Sustainable Development of Organic Agriculture in Bosnia and Herzegovina organized by FINRA University.
Experts believe that the agricultural potential of Bosnia and Herzegovina is not being utilized sufficiently, nor adequately.
MIDHAT GLAVIĆ, Director of the Federal Institute of Agriculture: “In 2019, there was a food deficit of one billion and 290 million. Last year, this deficit in food alone amounted to three billion and 74 million, or 25 percent of the total foreign trade deficit. In ten months of this year, the food deficit is two billion and 792 million”.
The focus of agricultural development and sustainability must therefore be on education and science, this is the commitment of FINRA University.
Prof. ISMET KALIĆ, FINRA University Tuzla: “This is support for the study program Ecological Agriculture and Agribusiness, which is being implemented here at FINRA University Tuzla for the third year in a row. We believe that this is the best way to raise the level of professional competence of our students and our professors, and this conference is precisely what has this significance”.
There is potential for agricultural development even in areas like Tuzla, which are not typically agricultural. This year, the City of Tuzla supported 325 agricultural farms and crafts. This year, the Tuzla Canton supported agriculture and rural development with 16.5 million BAM.
FEDAHIJA AHMETOVIĆ, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management in the Government of the Canton of Tuzla: “There are fewer and fewer people involved in agricultural production, especially young people. We must replace this with scientific achievements, the application of science and the use of modern and new mechanization”.
How to achieve this was attempted to be answered through 39 scientific papers by 120 authors from Bosnia and Herzegovina and countries in the region, which were presented at a conference organized by Finra University, where the book “Cash Flow and Financial Risk Management in Agriculture” was also presented.
