Serbia begins exporting flour again
08. April 2011. | 11:21
Source: Tanjug
Serbia has begun exporting flour again and it will export 33,000 tonnes of it in the next three months.
Serbia has begun exporting flour again and it will export 33,000 tonnes of it in the next three months.
Zitopromet-Mlin CEO Predrag Djurovic has told Tanjug his company began exporting flour two days ago.
According to him, 40 percent of the company's revenue comes from flour and pasta export to the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Hungary, Romania and Sweden.
The export is worth up to EUR 4.5 million annually, Djurovic stated.
It is good that export has resumed, allowing Serbian companies to keep their their old customers, he noted.
It is also good that the export ban was lifted quickly, after about 15 days, and did not do any serious damage, he remarked, adding that the ban was imposed hastily.
Head of the Wheats of Serbia Association Vukosav Sakovic thinks the government decision to allow flour export allows only flour makers to export flour.
The normal situation would be to have export companies do the exporting, while flour makers would just make flour, he stressed.
The government decided March 16 to ban wheat and flour export in order to stabilize the supply and prices on the home market.
The ban caused a lot of protest from flour producers.
Two weeks later, March 31, the government allowed for 33,000 tonnes of flour to be exported in the next three months, suggesting that the monthly quota does not go over 11,000 tonnes.
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