ZAGREB/GENEVA, July 1 (Hina) - Agricultural production in Croatia is facing big challenges now the market has opened following admission to the World Trade Organisation and as a result of the inability to use European Union structural
funds for assistance to agriculture yet, Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Simonovic told a ministerial meeting of the U.N. Economic and Social Council in Geneva on Tuesday.
ZAGREB/GENEVA, July 1 (Hina) - Agricultural production in Croatia
is facing big challenges now the market has opened following
admission to the World Trade Organisation and as a result of the
inability to use European Union structural funds for assistance to
agriculture yet, Deputy Foreign Minister Ivan Simonovic told a
ministerial meeting of the U.N. Economic and Social Council in
Geneva on Tuesday. #L#
The meeting focuses on the advancement of agriculture and the
eradication of hunger, Croatia's standing mission to the United
Nations in Geneva said.
The future of a successful and internationally competitive
agriculture lies in the production of healthy food, for which
conditions in Croatia are good, said Simonovic.
He also chaired a ministerial round-table debate on the eradication
of poverty in cities, and held talks with U.N. Food and Agriculture
Organisation (FAO) director general Jacques Diouf on Croatia-FAO
cooperation programmes in the production and sale of healthy food.
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