Ministry of Agriculture

STUTTGART - A ministerial conference on the implementation of Serbian-German environmental projects will be held in Stuttgart on Tuesday.

The Serbian delegation will be headed by Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic and State Secretary Stana Bozovic.

BELGRADE - A project meant to improve facilities for the production of animal source foods and management of animal by-products will be completed by 2016, and the EU has decided to grant Serbia EUR 2 million for the project.

A total of three out of four senior executives of Bulgaria's State Fund Agriculture were replaced on Friday.

An official media statement of the Ministry of Agriculture only mentions the removal of its Executive Director, Atanas Dobrev, who was replaced by Lozana Vasileva.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection set up a working group for coordination of the work of agricultural inspections and administrations for protection of herbal products and veterinary medicine with a view to providing adequate protection for the local market, the Ministry released.

BELGRADE - Serbian Agriculture Minister Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic and acting Vojvodina province secretary for agriculture Branislav Bugarski expressed differing views on lease of arable land in the northern Serbian province.

BELGRADE – Serbian Agriculture Minister Snezana Bogosavljevic-Boskovic said Friday that the ministry would do everything to respect the procedures and rules of the Russian market and live up to the trust put in us, adding that increased export of Serbian products to the Customs Union member states could not harm anyone.

Cheese exports to Russia could increase "in two weeks"

MOSCOW -- Serbia could increase its cheese export to Russia in two weeks' time , Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolay Fyodorov said on Thursday.

He made the comments after his meeting in Moscow with Serbian counterpart Snežana Bogosavljević-Bošković.

MOSCOW - Serbia will increase its cheese export to Russia in two weeks, Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolay Fyodorov said after the meeting with his Serbian counterpart Snezana Bogosavljevic Boskovic in Moscow on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Agriculture and Environmental Protection Snezana Boskovic-Bogosavljevic will meet with Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolay Vasilyevich Fyodorov in Moscow on Thursday to discuss opportunities for increasing exports and placement of Serbian agricultural products to the Russian market.

*The candidate of the Christian Liberal Alliance (ACL, made up of National Liberal Party PNL and Democratic Liberal Party PDL) Klaus Iohannis announced on Monday night the start of his pre-campaign for Romania's presidency, with collection of the mandatory signatures of voters to allow him running.