Poultrymen from Tuzla Canton TC Posavina Canton PC Zenica-Doboj Canton ZDC and Canton Sarajevo CS sent amendments to the proposed amount of incentives in the poultry sector for 2023, which amount to 1.46 million BAM, to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry.
The President of the TC Poultry Farmers Association, Mevludin Kahvedzic, who has been a poultryman for 20 years, says it is not logical that the incentives for poultrymen in the FBiH amount to only 1.46 million BAM, which was a result of the increase in the total funds for supporting agriculture from 106 million BAM in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is known what problems poultrymen faced last year in the FBiH, from the energy crisis, i.e. The price of coal, firewood, and pellets for heating farms has gone up due to the drought and the price of corn and components for feeding chickens. Now we are back in terms of incentives, and we are the only agricultural branch that is in the VAT system, said Kahvedzic.
Last year, FBiH poultrymen, he adds, paid 30 million BAM in VAT.
From 1.46 million BAM to 2 million BAM, that is why we have every right to ask for an increase in incentives in all sectors of poultry production, according to Kahvedzic.
Avaz reports that the amendments to the Draft Law on Incentives in the Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry were supported by a telephone session of the Management Board of the Poultry Famers Association of TC.