CRO GOVERNMENT ESTABLISHES AGRICULTURE ADVISORY INSTITUTE

ZAGREB, Jan 29 (Hina) - The Croatian Government has issued a decree that a Croatian Agriculture Advisory Institute is established. The Institute's tasks will be to counsel family farms and smallholdings about agriculture and to restore and keep heritage of rural areas. The Institute will participate in making and carrying out the agricultural policy of the Croatian Government, and advise on how to maintain the environmental balance. Means for the establishment of the Institute and the beginning of its work, worth 6.7 million kuna (US$ 1.2 million), have been earmarked from the 1997 state budget. At proposals of the Agriculture and Forestry Ministry, the Croatian Government will name the head and two members of the administrative board that will run the institute. (hina) jn mš 291115 MET jan 97