Poultry farmers from across Bosnia and Herzegovina must unite and advocate for legislative and incentive reforms and our next step must be gaining the permit to export hatching and table eggs to the EU market, said the head of Bosnia’s Poultry Coordination Board and CEO of MADI company, Edin Jabandzija.
The Coordination Board meeting was held in at MADI company premises after the European Commission approved chicken exports from Bosnia into the EU, last month.
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The State Veterinary Office now has to conduct audits and issue permits to individual exporters who fulfilled the EU conditions.
“These permits will then be sent to the European Commission for approval. The entire process will last some 45 days,” head of the State Veterinary Office, Ljubomir Kalaba, said.
Representatives of the USAID and Swedish Embassy in Bosnia, who support the poultry sector through the USAID/Sweden FARMA II Project, expect to see positive effects in the field through an export increase, opening of new jobs and incentives to new investments.
“We’ll continue working on increasing the competitiveness of the sector. Our efforts are already showing results, one of which are the joint talks between the Coordination representatives, the Veterinary Office and the USAID/Sweden FARMA II Project on future steps and activities for improvements to market access and removal of barriers for export of hatching and table eggs to the EU market,” said Peter Duffy, Head of the USAID in Bosnia.
The USAID/Sweden FARMA II project is the third generation of USAID and Government of Sweden projects focused on the agricultural sector in Bosnia.
Previous projects assisted Bosnia to increase sales and exports for specific crops and food products within the agricultural sector.
