Mladjan Dinkic
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rts.rs
Dinkic told Radio Television of Serbia that the government determined to turn to the East in its economic cooperation, specifically to Russia, China, Persian Gulf countries and Turkey.
The Minister pointed out that economic cooperation with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will be one of the most important projects of the Serbian government.
He specified that company Al Dahra Agriculture from the UAE will invest €100 million for acquiring 80% of share in joint companies in which the state will keep 20% of ownership.
The subject of the pre-contract is property of agricultural companies and not state-owned land, and not a single hectare of these companies’ land will be leased to Al Dahra, except for a part of holding of 7 juli company from Surcin.
According to him, the farmland of military institution Morovic - Karadjordjevo plant will not be either sold or rented, but a separate agreement on business-technical cooperation will be made.
Dinkic announced the signing of an agreement with the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development on starting the construction of irrigation channels, so within the next three years, starting from this spring, 300,000 acres in Serbia should be under irrigation, which will bring much higher yields.
Also, it is planned that part of the sum from the Fund for Development should go directly to farmers through soft loans for agricultural equipment or other technical improvements, he said.