Cooperatives in Serbia inherit European criteria and values ​​in that place, explained right now the Minister for the Treatment of the Village, Milan Krkobabic.

“Cooperatives are an critical that occurs from smaller but fragmented belongings. Serbian cooperatives as a sector, but also as a broader social movement, absolutely inherit European cooperative standards and values. Transfer of proper information and new technologies with significant state investments and total political support of the president Aleksandar Vučić, depict a realistic framework for the accelerated improvement of cooperatives, which form the backbone of the survival of Serbian villages, “Krkobabić explained.

He opened the “Second Summer season Cooperative School” in the Banat municipality of Zitiste in Srpski Itebej.

Krkobabic included that “our cooperative tradition dates again to 1846 and our spirit of cooperatives is immanent to European cooperatives.”

“We are continuing in this article, we have transferred a thousand freshly proven cooperatives and in the next period of time we prepare to go from that quantity to a new top quality, genuine specialized cooperatives horizontally and vertically linked,” stated the Minister.

The three-day school with professional lectures, arranged by the Cooperative Union of Vojvodina, which is becoming held in the agricultural cooperative “Mrkšićevi salaši”, will be accompanied by practical excursions of many highly regarded cooperatives of Vojvodina.

It will be attended by 50 participants from 20 cooperatives from the whole territory of Vojvodina and is intended for all associates of cooperatives who want to enrich their know-how with functional specialist information.

The President of the Educational Board for the Village of SANU, Academician Dragan Škorić, reminded of the significance of education and learning, lectures, professional gatherings, summer and winter sensible schools with numerous subject areas.

“We have to complete regionalization, modify the structure of crops and introduce new systems in creation,” Skoric pointed out.

The President of the Cooperative Union of Vojvodina, Jelena Nestorov-Bizonj, pointed out that this summer time faculty is meant mostly for younger people today who work in cooperatives, with the objective of enriching their information, getting contacts, exchanging encounters and implementing them in their cooperatives and environments.

“Investments in technological advancement are the most significant for cooperatives, and cooperatives have certainly seasoned a real revival in today’s agrarian milieu.

The agricultural cooperative “Mrkšićevi salaši”, the host cooperative of this summer months college, has been running for 28 decades, has 21 customers, 307 subcontractors and as lots of as 330 workforce. These days, this Banat place has 1,900 inhabitants and virtually a third of the populace is in some way economically linked to the cooperative, and if members of their family members are added to that range, it can be explained that the position survives many thanks to the cooperative.

“We managed to maintain existence in the village, we have 300 students in the village college, and we also employ experienced persons from the city. Serbian Itebej is a distinct village, which had as several as 8 cooperatives right until the 2nd Earth War,” described director Vojislav Mrksic.