Farmers in BiH to take to the streets and borders on May 4

SARAJevo, Patria) - Competent institutions have done nothing to protect domestic farmers and producers, they have not supported the introduction of protective measures on the import of certain products from EU countries, thus forcing us to take to the streets and borders on May 4. According to Vladimir Usorac, president of BiH agricultural producers, this is also the stance of associations from both entities.

As he explains, the coronavirus has had a significant impact on agriculture, both in Europe and in our country. The purchasing power of the population has also fallen, and Europe wants to 'push' its surplus products somewhere and has found fertile ground in BiH, so farmers have requested protection of domestic production by introducing levies and customs duties. However, without success.

Let us recall, the decision to introduce levies and customs duties on fresh and chilled pork and beef meat has already been rejected once at a session of the BiH Council of Ministers, and one of the reasons, as explained by Bisera Turković, BiH Minister of Foreign Affairs, was that the decision did not go through the prescribed procedure under the Stabilization and Association Agreement.