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Tuesday 23 October 2012


Croatia

Croatia - Pork exports

The European Commission's Standing Committee on the Food Chain and Animal Health in Brussels has unanimously adopted a decision allowing Croatia to export, without limit, fresh pork and pork products to the European Union markets, Croatia’s Ministry of Agriculture said in a statement.

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Sunday 22 April 2012


Croatia

Croatia - Pork export problems

European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development, Dacian Ciolos, said that for a return to the European pork markets, Croatia needed to prove that farm reared pigs were separated from wild pigs to ensure that there was no re-transmission of swine flu, the Croatia Times reports.

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Sunday 18 December 2011


Croatia

Croatia - Anthrax in pigs

There has been one outbreak of Anthrax reported to the OIE.

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Tuesday 27 September 2011


Croatia

Croatia - Farmers visit US farms

A delegation of beef producers from Croatia is touring cattle operations across Kansas to learn how Midwestern ranchers conduct business.

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Monday 04 October 2010


Croatia

Croatia - JSR pig genetics

Croatian pig producers – the Ivancic family – signed a contract with JSR Genetics, the UK-based international pig breeding company, for the supply of breeding stock to their Agro-farmer d.o.o business based at Sevete Ludbreske, Croatia.

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Friday 06 August 2010


Croatia

Croatia - The pig population increased by 13%

According to the latest update from Eurostat, the total pig population in 2009 stood at just under 1.25 million.

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Saturday 03 July 2010


Croatia

Croatia - Fish farming

Despite two decades of hardship, war and a loss of markets, Matko Jasprica has kept his Croatian fish farm alive and now hopes to start exporting sea bass and sea bream to the European Union. It's just as well, because officials and researchers say fish farming, known as aquaculture, is set to become the world's main source of seafood over the next 20 years.

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Saturday 01 May 2010


Croatia

Croatia - Farmers doing it tough

Croatian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Agricultural Development Petar Cobankovic (centre) speaks to farmers after reaching a new agreement on subsidies. It is a quiet morning in Veliko Korenovo, a typical rural Croatian village in the northeast. This area, centered around the city of Bjelovar, is the country's breadbasket, the heart of its fertile farmlands.

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Sunday 28 February 2010


Croatia

Croatia - Rise in livestock numbers

Provisional results of a December 2009 census reveal the numbers of pigs and poultry have increased compared to the previous year, while numbers of cattle, sheep and goats were down

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Monday 26 October 2009


Croatia

Croatia - Six arrests in meat scandal

Croatia was shaken on Wednesday night by a large privatization scandal after it emerged that police had arrested six people because of their illegal attempts to privatize the largest Croatian food company "Podravka". The local media has immediately called scandal as Vegetageyt

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Wednesday 08 July 2009


Croatia

Croatia - Poultry producers meet

More than 30 poultry producers from Croatia and neighboring countries attended the first Croatian Cobb symposium "World of Cobb" held at the Adriatic Jet-set summer resort in Opatija, Croatia.Iradia, Cobb Germany's distributor for the West Balkans, organised the event to mark the greatly expanded Cobb500 market share in the region — Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia — during 2009. After Iradia's general

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Friday 29 May 2009


Croatia

Croatia - Reduction in farm exports

CROATIA - The unilateral move by Bosnian administration to cut export volume of some Croatian companies delivered a serious blow to Croatia's food industry, Croatian media said.

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Friday 15 May 2009


Croatia

Croatia - Newcastle disease in poultry

The veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of Newcastle disease in pigeons to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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Thursday 14 May 2009


Croatia

Croatia - Poultry disease strikes farms

The veterinary authorities have reported an outbreak of Newcastle disease in pigeons to the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).

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