Ministry of Agriculture

KRAGUJEVAC - Serbian beekeepers exported 1,500 tons of honey last year, which is over 50 percent less than in 2013, when honey exports totalled 3,370 tons, the deputy president of the Association of Serbian Beekeepers, Milutin Petrovic, has told Tanjug.

BELGRADE - Faster development of agricultural industry in western, southern and south-east Serbia, as areas that already have the conditions and established tradition of cattle, goat and sheep breeding, will be ensured through the protocol on cooperation which Serbia and Italy signed on Thursday.

BELGRADE - The European Commission has adopted the rural development program (IPARD) for Serbia on the proposal of the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, which paves the way for the EU support to Serbia's agricultural sector over the next six years.

BERLIN- Serbia is among a small number of SEE countries running a trade surplus in agricultural and food products, State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Danilo Golubovic said Monday, addressing the Agricultural Ministers' Summit in Berlin.

BELGRADE - A delegation of the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection, headed by Minister Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic, will be on a two-day working visit to Hungary on Monday and Tuesday.

Bogosavljevic Boskovic will have a bilateral meeting with Hungarian Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Sandor Fazekas.

BELGRADE - Trade surplus in the Serbian agriculture sector totalled nearly EUR 1 billion in the period from January to November 2014, which is 23 percent more than in 2013, the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture released on Monday.

The surplus totalled EUR 977.6 million in the first eleven months of 2014, as against EUR 795 million in the same period in 2013.

Belgrade resident arrested in Pristina in 30-day custody

PRIŠTINA, BELGRADE -- Serbian citizen named as Slobodan Gavric, who was arrested in Pristina with 13 kg of explosives in his possession, was placed in 30-day custody on Saturday.

He is held "on suspicion of organising terrorist activities and bringing explosives into Kosovo," Tanjug reported.

BELGRADE - The Ministry of Agriculture has proposed amendments to the law on subsidies that will change the criteria for herbal production subsidies, Minister of Agriculture Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic said on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - Chinese partners are planning major investments in Serbia's agriculture and the summit of leaders of China and countries of central and eastern Europe (CEE) is very important as it can give impetus to such investment activities, State Secretary at the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Danilo Golubovic has said.

The EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council (AGRIFISH) has kept Bulgaria's 2015 turbot quota unchanged at 43.2 tonnes.

Bulgaria's national turbot quota was decided during Monday's sitting of AGRIFISH, where Bulgaria was represented by Agriculture Minister Desislava Taneva.