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Study tour ofGeorgian policy makers

Introduction to policy strategies and measuresof agriculture and cooperative development in Serbia

Study tour of Georgian policy makers mamakersmakers

Objective: Introduction to policy strategies and measures of agriculture and cooperative development in Serbia

(EU candidate country) and Croatia (EU country)

Information

Main trainers are selected:

• To have experience in practical policy and cooperative development

• To have experience working in Georgia

• Good presentation and communication skills

Main trainers and accompany during study tour:

Dragana Tar / SEEDEV owner and director

M.A. in Development Studies (MA Focus on economic and social development of local communities through

mobilisation of own resources and visioning). 10 years of work in international development assistance framework.

Knowledge of policy development, evaluation cycle and PCM. Long experience in local and rural development

programming. Extensive experience as a trainer.

Goran Zivkov / SEEDEV owner and employee

Graduated from the faculty of Agriculture (university of Belgrade). Assistant Minister and Minister of the Ministry of

Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management (2004-2006). Extensive experience in policy making and strategy

planning in the field of agriculture and rural development. Long experience in providing institutional TA in Serbia

and abroad. Extensive experience as a trainer.

Ivana Dulic Markovic / SEEDEV owner and employee

Serbian Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Water Management from 2004 to 2006. In 2006, became Deputy

Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia. Ph.D. from Belgrade University in biotechnology in 1999, and Professor at

the Agricultural Faculty at the University of Banja Luka. In 2008, Ivana was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of

Vojvodina Province. Since 2009, independent consultant for different UN and other international organizations.

Josip Jagust / SEEDEV owner and employee in Croatia

With a B. Eng from Imperial College London, Josip has worked in Norway on sustainability isssues; since 2002 has

been involved in the private agri-business sector in Croatia. Currently running SEEDEV Croatia and working on

number of rural and agribusiness sustainability projects and is structuring SEEDEV's IPA team. His experience and

expertise is in corporate sustainability management and rural and local institutional sustainable development

capacity-building.

Pascal Bernardoni / SEEDEV owner

M.A. in Agro-economics, worked in Western Africa and Latin America on institutional strengthening of large farmer

associations; has assisted development funds to define eligibility criteria for credits and grants. Since 1999, in the

Balkans and in the Caucasus with specific emphasis on agriculture and rural development. Experience in needs

assessment, project formulation and implementation and M&E.

Addition to the main trainers’ presentation will be provided by policy makers, cooperative and associations

directors, advisors…

Duration: 6 full days

Accommodation: Single room /double rooms (if required)

Hotels: Three and four stars hotels

Travel: Luxury bus


Map of the trip


Programme

Day 1: Tuesday, 11 March 2014, Belgrade

Objective:

Introduction to Serbian and western Balkan agriculture to be able to compare with situation in Georgia

Introduction to main policies regarding agriculture, rural development and cooperatives

SEEDEV office or hotel where group stays

Time To see/meet Main focus

10.00-10.30 All trainers

Introduction

Discussion

Introduction to training and trainers

Introduction to the participants

Adjustment of the Agenda, if needed

10.30-12.00 Ivana Dulic Markovic and Goran Zivkov

Comparison of production and policy in Western

Balkan countries and Georgia

Power point presentation

Main production and trade products in Western Balkan and Georgia

Introduction to the agriculture and rural development policy and

existing institution in Serbia and other Western Balkan countries

12.00-13.30 Zoran Knežević

Head of land depertment in ministry of

agriculture of Serbia

Land market devleopment

Lecture with power point

Land market developemnt

Serbian land law

Land auctions for state land

Cooperatives and state land usage

Land consolidation

13.30-14.15 Lunch

14.30-15.00 Dragana Tar and Pascal Bernardoni

Traditional products


Geographical indications

Placing traditional products into market

Food safety derogations for GI products

Role of associations in managing GI products

15.00-16.00 Ivana Dulic Markovic and Goran Zivkov

Support policy in EU, Western Balkan and

Georgia


Comparison support policy in Western Balkan and Georgia

Introduction to the EU support policy

Special support policy for cooperatives in EU and WeBal


Introduction to the cooperatives in Western

Balkan


Type of the cooperatives

State of the art in Western Balkan countries regarding cooperatives

Main obstacles for cooperative development

Development stages of cooperatives

Cooperative law

Kafana Kafana

20.00 Dinner Traditional Serbian restaurant,

Overnight in Belgrade


Day 2: 12 March 2014, Topola, Central Serbia

Objective:

Involvement of small scale farmers / organization of the farmers for green market

Family winery business

How is it that they cooperatives functioned 100 years ago and today do not function

Private extension service in fruit production


8.30-9.30 Travel to Topola One hour drive

Oplenac

9.30-11.00 Oplenac visit to historic site Church of St.

George and Royal Winery

temple and mausoleum of the royal family Karadjordjević

Royal Winery was founded in 1931. in the time of King

Alexander Karadjordjevic who continued the family tradition

of growing vines at. The winery owns about 50ha of

vineyards and the first vines planted Alexander's father , King

Peter I Karadjordjevic in 1914th

Vinca

11.00-11.30 Božidar Aleksandrović

Visit to Aleksandrovic Winery

Aleksandrovic family is more than a hundred years engaged in grape

growing and wine-making. Milos Aleksandrovic, great-

grandfather, was one of the founders of Vinca vinegrowing

cooperative in 1903

Why the vinegrowing cooperatives were functional 100 years

ago and they are not functioning today?

Šumadija vine growers and wine association

Role of Association in promotion of local wines

Role of association connectiog the wine production and rural

tourism and

Main obstacles in Association development

Topola

11.30-13.30

Milan Damjanovic

Director of cooperative ZZ Domacin and

member of Board of Serbia Fruits (association of

fruit producers created to support export of

Serbian fruit)

Field visit

Problems with cooperative ownership

Export to Russia

Trading with non – cooperative members

13.30 – 16. 00 Lunch and travel to Grocka

Grocka

16.00-17.30

Marija Milenkovic Kolundzija, private extension

service

Association “Golden Apples” Udovice

How private extension is contributing to development of fruit

production in small households

Role of fruit growers associations and problems they are facing

18.00-20.00 Dinner

Belgrade

21.00 Back to hotel



Day 3: 13 March 2014, Novi Sad

Objective:

Agricultural and rural development policy implementation on local and/or regional level

Cooperative union management and audit

Vegetable production and marketing - role of cooperatives


8.30-9.30 Travel to Novi sad One hour drive on highway

Regional Government of Vojvodina

9.30-10.30

Goran Jesic

Regional minister for agriculture and water

management

Lecture followed by discussion

Policy at regional level

Importance and support to the agriculture infrastructure

development

Role of Regional extension service

10.30 – 11.30

Biljana Zec

Director of the Rural development agency of

Indjija municipality


How local Agency is contributing to the uptake of funds from

regional and national budget

Cooperative as part of the Agency management

Chamber of Commerce

11.30-13.00

Djordje Bugarin

Former president of coop union / at present

working in Chamber of commerce responsible

for agriculture


Role of Chamber of commerce

Role of the cooperative union

Main obstacles in cooperative development

Opportunities and chances for cooperatives in Serbia

Cooperative Union office

13.00-14.30

Mirjana Kajganić – Majstorović

Cooperative auditor in Cooperative Union of

Vojvodina province

Presentation

Cooperative audit

Cooperative methodology and principles

Main problems during cooperative audit

Role of audit in implementation of cooperative law

14.30 – 15.00 Buffet lunch and travel to Gospođinci

Gospođinci

15.00-16.00

Laza Djukic

Vegetable grower with greenhouses and open

field, member of cooperative but also trading by

himself

Farm and storage capacity visit

Vegetable production and marketing

Importance of storage capacities in marketing the vegetables

Difference of marketing through cooperative and individual

marketing

16.00-17.30

Radivoj Nadlački

Manager of agriculture cooperative / Visited

Georgia as cooperative trainer

Filed visit and lecture

Managing cooperative

Input supply as a important part of cooperative income

Quality control in marketing vegetable products in the cooperative

Membership fees

Salaš 137

18.00-20.00 Dinner at rural area

Belgrade

21.00 Back to hotel



Day 4: 14 March 2014, Belgrade

Objective:

Cooperative rules and principles

Cooperative realities

Cooperative management and audit

SEEDEV office or hotel where group stays

Time To see/meet Looking for the answers

9.00-9.45 Dragana Tar

History and type of the Cooperative

Power point presentation and presentation by

group

Introduction to cooperative principles, types, history, in world, EU

and Western Balkan

New generation of cooperative

Presentation of the situation in Georgia by group representative

9.45-11.00 Pascal Bernardoni and Goran Zivkov

Value chains and quality control in cooperative

Power point presentation

Value chain concept

Main obstacles in organizing value chain

What successful value chain mean

Value chain in cooperative environment

Quality control

11.00-12.00 Nikola Mihailovic

President of cooperative Union of Serbia


Role of cooperative union

Cooperative audit

Regional cooperative unions and experience with decentralization

Union achievements and problems

12.00-13.30 Snezana Jankovic

Director of Institute for Applied Science in

Agriculture who is responsible for Extension

Service

Lecture with ppt

How is organized Extension Service

Role of the Institute for Applied Science in Agriculture in developing

agriculture

Role of state extension service in developing cooperatives

Extension Service achievements and problems

13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-15.30 Vukosav Sakovic

Director of membership driven Association of

grain producers


About Grain association

Membership fee collection

Service provided to the members

Situation in the grain market


Main obstacles for developing cooperatives

Lectures and moderated workshop with

participants

Identification of the main obstacles of developing cooperatives in

Georgia

Discussion results

Identification how to overcame obstacles

Free evening



Day 5: 15 March, 2014 Futog, Bečej, Subotica

Objective:

Best practice of farmers associations and cooperatives

Practical experience of managing cooperatives and associations


8.30 Travel to Futog One hour and 15 minutes’ drive

Futog

9.45-11.00

Goran Puača

President of association of Futoski Kupus wich has

GI protection


How cooperative / association can target export market

Quality control for GI products

Cooperative vs association

11.00-11.30 Travel to Kać

Kać

11.30-13.00

Voja Malešev

President of farmers association 100P+ which are

the most influential farmer association and

member of cooperative


Association role in education, lobbing, public relations

Main problems in functioning cooperatives and associations

Main achievements in functioning cooperatives and associations

13.00-14.00 Travel to Bečej

Bečej

14.00-16.00

Pavle Pustajic and other members

Director of Vojvodina agrar which is Association

of 26 cooperatives/companies which all has 50

thousands contracted farmers


Joint purchase of production materials

Joint marketing

Managing big association of cooperatives/companies

Negotiations with input suppliers and processors

Palić

17.00-18.00 Accommodation in hotel at Palic and short free time

18.00-19.00

Vinery Zvonko Bogdan

The newly established vinery

Field visit

Marketing wine

Investment in quality

Connecting wine production and tourism

19.00 Dinner with cooperative directors from Sombor

and Subotica

Opportunities for cooperative actions

Q&A

Overnight in Palić


Day 6: 16 March 2014, Palic, Subotica

Objective:

Fruit cooperatives, Russian fruit market

Production standards

Wrap up session


9.00-9.15 Travel to Bački Vinogradi

Bački Vinogradi

9.15-11.00

Vilmos Janos

President of cooperative Prima example of

market oriented cooperative which is

established by farmers, managed by

professional management and staff

operate at international cooperative values and

principles / used MoA support to built storage

capacities


State and donor support to the cooperatives

Export to Russia

Global Gap standards

Common investment by cooperative members

Subotica, Palic

11.30 – 13.00 Wrap up session and lunch Around two hours driving and passing border

13.00 Optional (Free time in Subotica / rest in hotel /

visit cooperative in Tavankut

Cooperative in Tavankut has 1.500 tons of ULO cold storage were

20 members keep apples

Established around 10 years ago

Travel to Airport Around two and half hours driving to the airport


Useful links

SEEDEV DOO www.seedev.org

Vojvodina province government www.vojvodina.gov.rs

Association of Futoski kupus www.futoskikupus.org

National cooperative union www.zssrbije.org

Vojvodina cooperative union www.zasav.org.rs

Cooperative union Vojvodina agrar www.vojvodina-agrar.com

Palic www.palic.rs

Cooperative Prima www.zzprima.co.rs

Zvonko Bogdan vinery www.vinarijazvonkobogdan.com

City of Belgrade www.beograd.rs

City of Novi Sad www.novisad.rs

City of Subotica www.subotica.rs

Municipality of Topola www.topola.com

Municipality of Becej www.becej.rs

http://www.seedev.org/

http://www.vojvodina.gov.rs/en/

http://www.futoskikupus.org/

http://www.zssrbije.org/

http://www.zasav.org.rs/

http://www.vojvodina-agrar.com/

http://www.palic.rs/en

http://www.zzprima.co.rs/en/index_en.html

http://www.vinarijazvonkobogdan.com/

http://www.beograd.rs/cms/view.php?id=220

http://www.novisad.rs/eng

http://www.subotica.rs/en/1/

http://www.topola.com/

http://www.becej.rs/rsLAT/index.jsp

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