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Presentation “Viticulture and Wine Production” held

Belgrade, 19 April 2007

Representatives of the Serbian Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management and the twinning project Capacity Building for the Regulation of the Serbian Wine Sector held today a presentation titled “Viticulture and Wine Production in Serbia.”

Head of the department for primary production and processing at the Ministry and advisor in the twinning project Darko Jaksic stressed on the occasion that in Serbia more than two million hectolitres of wine is produced annually, which in a regional perspective, is on the level of Croatia and Macedonia, while it is less than the quantities produced in Romania, Moldavia and Bulgaria.

Serbia is at the forefront among European countries with an average consumption of 1.6 litres of wine per head, said Jaksic and specified that average consumption of table grapes per head in Serbia is 1.3 kilograms. He added that last year 360,000 tonnes of grape was produced.

Serbia imported more wine than it exported and in the structure of import of all beverages, wine accounts for almost 70%, while the remaining are other alcohol drinks, soft drinks and juices.

Jaksic said that the greatest amount of wine is imported from Macedonia, over 85%, while Serbian wines are exported to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany and Austria.

The presentation " Viticulture and Wine Production in Serbia" is being held as part of the Fourth international wine festival which was opened today at the Sava Centre in Belgrade, at which over 130 wineries from 13 countries exhibited more than 400 types of wine.

Apart from wineries from Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, France, Italy and South America, the Italian cooking federation and the Serbian culinary association were also present at the fair

The festival will be open until April 21, and it will include lectures about wine production to be held by distinguished local and international experts.