After the competent institutions of BiH gave the green light for the import of frozen red meat for the area of South America, farmers point out that this is not a good move and that this will surely turn off domestic production, but also to lead to lower meat prices.
Namely, as Dragko Banjac said, the President of the Association of the Republika Srpska farmers and a farm manufacturer from Masici, near Gradiška, primarily questionable of meat that came from South America.
“It is likely to influence the price of other types of meat occurs, but in our country, the livestock has been declining in years, and this will influence additional production decline,” Banjac said.
As he said, this is by no means a good thing for domestic production, but as he points out, no one of the farmers ask for an opinion.
“This guild will eventually pay end customers, because the question is what it is the quality of quality and how it can affect the health of citizens,” Banjac said.
Snežana Seslija, President of the Association of Consumer “Topeer” from Doboj, points out “independent newspapers” that it is against the import of meat and meat products.
“Precisely because we have developed agricultural production, and I think that animal husbandry in BiH has reached the level that it can feed their inhabitants,” Sashli said.
She added that she didn’t believe it would be a quality nor approximate that that had meat in BiH.
“I think the residents are endangered by buying imported meat, because the big question arises as much as the meat was frozen long,” Sishlier points out.
As she said, he does not see which, in the end, I would be interested in importing meat from South America. Stale basket, Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH, said that the enabling of frozen meat from South America was implemented at the request of the mesopreporator from the Federation of BiH, in order to open an alternative market for the procurement of frozen red meat for processing.
“Representatives of the Mesoperadivje industry from the Federation of BiH have requested help, because they are faced with the problem of lack of raw materials from the EU market. The evident problems in the European market are the result of global disorders, the reductions of the livestock and extinguishing farms in the EU, the lack of energy and the like, which was adversely affected by the Federation of BiH, “the basket has pointed out.
He emphasized that the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Relations of BiH and the BiH Veterinary Office, in the past two months worked intensively to remove the conditions for unobstructed frozen red meat imports from Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, at the request of the mesoprepers from the Federation of BiH.
“Last week, we ended all the necessary procedures, so certain jobs have already been contracted and implemented for the benefit of mesoprepers from the Federation of BiH. We have made a significant step forward and enabled alternative markets, in order to reduce the negative effects of the disorders in the European market, “the basket was emphasized.
He added that the BiH Veterinary Office and other competent services conduct strict veterinary-sanitary controls in the import of frozen red meat for processing, where this type of raw material may not be older than six months, and the quality, safety and microbiological correctness, writing Independent newspapers.
“Faced with this, as well as with all the previous negative effects of the EU market disorders, we firmly commit to continue the opening policy, because it is a chance for the domestic economic sector and improving the overall foreign trade,” the basket specified.
