EU FUNDS MONTENEGRO MEAT AND LIVESTOCK CONTROLS
July 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE MEAT industry of Europe's newest independent state, Montenegro, is to be boosted by a Euro 1.5 million cash injection from the European Union (EU), helping it set up effective livestock identification and registration systems. Such controls have always been considered weak in Montenegro, which is no mean producer of cattle: there are 120,000 head in this tiny Balkan country, on 37,000 (often small), farms. Sheep and goats will also be registered under the scheme, which will be funded by the EU's European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR). ...
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