“Entrepreneurship zone Dusine Orasje” established with the aim of creating a unique spatial unit with common infrastructure has justified its purpose and is expanding more and more. However, in recent years, the problem of labor shortage has become more pronounced.
The development of the economy of the City of Orasje has been based in recent years on more modern ways of realizing business ideas. Small and medium-sized enterprises often started from scratch, with modest capital and only a few employees. And the backbone of the development of this region is agriculture, trades and crafts. The Dusine business zone was formed on the highway Orasje – Tuzla. The city is helping as much as it can, but the biggest problem is the lack of labor.
“All the capacities were filled so that the city council had to make a decision on the expansion and now it is an expansion on this second regional road,” stated Ilija Baotic, head of the Mayor’s Office in Orasje.
The entrepreneurial zone was expanding more and more, which is why it was necessary to look for new locations.
“Nineteen companies with 246 employees are currently operating in the Dusine business zone, and in the newly expanded part, a pasta factory is currently being built, and the city is investing in infrastructure, that is, water supply and sewerage and everything that is needed for small and medium-sized companies to operate in the business zone,” added Baotic.
Company Tronex BH d.o.o. which is engaged in servicing and selling devices and goods operated stably even during the pandemic.
“Since 2014, we have had up to twenty-five employees, but today we only have sixteen,” warns director Belma HodzicSuljkanovic.
In this company, by our standards, salaries are extremely high, but the problem is that workers go abroad after training.
“Young people come to us and we train them, and after that, they are already trained to go to the countries of the European Union(EU). I am aware of the fact that the whole of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is faced with this problem, but here in Posavina and Orasje it is far more pronounced because the door is open to them by having a passport and they can move their whole families there without any problems,” says HodzicSuljkanovic.
The trend of emigration, which has affected the whole of BiH, and especially Posavina, is becoming a crucial problem in our society.
