ZAGREB, July 26 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Wednesday adopted a temporary autumn sowing operative plan, which envisages sowing winter crops on a little over 290,000 hectares of land, about 2.5 percent less than last autumn.
According to the plan, the most important cereal crop, wheat, will be sowed on 210,000 hectares, including 181,000 to be covered by government inducements. With returns estimated at 4.3 tonnes per hectare, this would produce 778,000 tonnes of wheat, meeting domestic requirements. A 129,000-tonne crop is expected on some 30,000 hectares outside the government inducements system. The government does not assume the obligation to purchase this surplus, the temporary plan says, adding manufacturers, namely companies and farmers, will have to take care of it themselves. Funds necessary for the sowing plan are estimated at close to 150 million kuna (US$18.52 million). Members of th
ZAGREB, July 26 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Wednesday
adopted a temporary autumn sowing operative plan, which envisages
sowing winter crops on a little over 290,000 hectares of land, about
2.5 percent less than last autumn.
According to the plan, the most important cereal crop, wheat, will
be sowed on 210,000 hectares, including 181,000 to be covered by
government inducements. With returns estimated at 4.3 tonnes per
hectare, this would produce 778,000 tonnes of wheat, meeting
domestic requirements.
A 129,000-tonne crop is expected on some 30,000 hectares outside
the government inducements system. The government does not assume
the obligation to purchase this surplus, the temporary plan says,
adding manufacturers, namely companies and farmers, will have to
take care of it themselves.
Funds necessary for the sowing plan are estimated at close to 150
million kuna (US$18.52 million).
Members of the government agreed Croatia should participate in
"Trans-Carpathia 2000", a joint ground exercise of NATO's civilian
structure and Partnership for Peace countries to be held in two
stages in the Ukraine in September. Croatia should include a dozen
participants and earmark 385,000 kuna (US$47,530) in costs.
The government okayed a motion to initiate the signing of an
agreement with Bosnia-Herzegovina's Council of Ministers on the
turnover and admittance of people in illegal sojourn and an annexe
on the agreement's enforcement. Croatia's Premier Ivica Racan
should sign the agreement during an upcoming visit to Sarajevo, as a
condition for BH's citizens to enter Croatia with identity cards.
The government gave the Croatian Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (HBOR) a framework warranty to issue debt securities
worth up to EUR500 million as part of the Euro Medium Term Note
Programme.
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