Farmers doubt that they will receive sunflower subsidies this year
BizLife 28.09.2022 | Beta
Applications for the payment of subsidies for sunflower, sold to oil mills, in the amount of up to 7.8 dinars per kilogram, are submitted from October 14 to November 14, and the money for payment, as promised by the state, is secured in the current budget, said president of the Association of Farmers “Stig” Nedeljko Savic.
He told the Beta agency that a public call for documentation submission to the Directorate for Agrarian Payments should be announced this week, and documentation could be submitted by producers or oil mills to which sunflowers had been sold. “When we protested, two months ago, we asked the state to provide a minimum, guaranteed sunflower price of 73 dinars per kilogram. Since oil milling companies agreed to pay about 65 dinars, the state should have paid additional