The current agricultural production in BiH is insufficient to fulfill the its main task, which is to produce enough food to meet the population needs. The paper presents data on BiH’s fruit and ...vegetables imports and exports for two calendar years (2006 and 2007), which indicate a big deficit in foreign trade with the neighboring countries. While creating the export policy it will be necessary to define competitive, branded and organic products, and support the export policy by the measures of agricultural policy. While analyzing the agri-foodstuffs imports that is becoming ever more unrestrained, it becomes obvious that the only way to stay competitive is to lower the unit prices and thus achieve competitiveness of domestic production in domestic market. The main objectives of agricultural policy should include: meeting the aggregate demand for agricultural products; production and supply stabilization; and protection of farmers' income. The historical review provides an outline of the characteristics of the common agricultural policy in European Union, as well as its relationship with the current status of agriculture in BiH.
Agriculture and individual agricultural households have taken over the considerable social burden in rural villages and society in general mitigating poverty and providing food security for the poor ...in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While some positive developments have been observed, transformation and restructuring in agriculture and in the food sector have been conducted relatively slowly. The declining role of donations in emergency and reconstruction projects should be offset by an efficient development investment and credit measures to increase competitiveness of domestic produce, generate jobs and create developments of marketing channels utilising advantages of domestic agriculture and food processing as factors of rural entrepreneurship and poverty elevation. Due to scarce financial resources, greater attention should be given to create a proper climate for the creation of international competitive programs with minimal government transfers. The most visible shortcoming of the post-war agricultural and food sector development is the large and increasing trade deficit in agricultural and food products. The only way to break up such deteriorating patterns is to develop competitive domestic production able to compete with imports and in exports, which, although recovering, is still at a relatively low level. Adapted from the source document.
Agriculture and individual agricultural households have taken over the considerable social burden in rural villages and society in general mitigating poverty and providing food security for the poor ...in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While some positive developments have been observed, transformation and restructuring in agriculture and in the food sector have been conducted relatively slowly. The declining role of donations in emergency and reconstruction projects should be offset by an efficient development investment and credit measures to increase competitiveness of domestic produce, generate jobs and create developments of marketing channels utilising advantages of domestic agriculture and food processing as factors of rural entrepreneurship and poverty elevation. Due to scarce financial resources, greater attention should be given to create a proper climate for the creation of international competitive programs with minimal government transfers. The most visible shortcoming of the post-war agricultural and food sector development is the large and increasing trade deficit in agricultural and food products. The only way to break up such deteriorating patterns is to develop competitive domestic production able to compete with imports and in exports, which, although recovering, is still at a relatively low level.
Poljoprivredna gospodarstva u velikom su dijelu preuzela socijalne i društvene probleme na selima i u društvu uopće u privremenom rješavanju siromaštva i prehrambene sigurnosti u Bosni i Hercegovini. ...Iako ima nekoliko pozitivnih primjera ulaska prerađivača i stvaranja tržišnih lanaca, transformacija i prestrukturiranje poljoprivrede i prehrambeno-prerađivačke industrije tekli su relativno sporo. Smanjujuća uloga donatorsko--rekonstrukcijske politike trebala bi se nadoknaditi efikasnim razvojno investicijskim i kreditnim mjerama koje će pridonositi stvaranju konkurentske domaće proizvodnje, zapošljavanju i stvaranju tržišnih kanala, a oni će se u većoj mjeri okrenuti prema domaćoj primarnoj i prerađivačkoj industriji. Zbog ograničenih financijskih mogućnosti trebalo bi više pozornosti posvetiti stvaranju klime koja će voditi do međunarodno konkurentnih programa uz minimalne državne transfere. Slabosti dosadašnjega razvitka najviše se vide u sve većem trgovinskom deficitu, koji se efikasno može smanjiti razvitkom konkurentne domaće proizvodnje.
