Serbia allocates almost $100 mln annually for food import

BELGRADE - On green markets and in stores throughout Serbia is offered vegetables and fruits from all over the world. With vegetables that can produce itself, Serbia purchases abroad milk, meat, grain for which the country pays tens of millions of dollars.

Last year Serbia imported beans for 12 million dollars, potatoes for 9, tomato for 16, and the cucumbers as much as 3.5 million dollars.

The Serbian Chamber of Commerce says that vegetables are imported in the part of the year when there is none of it on the market. Traders are free to sell goods on domestic market in accordance with their business policy.

"Our products cost more than imported ones," said for "Novosti" Milada Lukesevic, advisor of the Association for crop production in the Chamber of Commerce. "Prices of imported products are, among other things, competitive because foreign producers are...

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