SERBIA REG. DEV.

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The project seeks to develop the Kolubara and Danube regions of SR Serbia. The country hopes to achieve this through: (i) on-farm investments in the form of credit to about 10,900 individual farmers; (ii) support services in the form of farm mechanization; (iii) provision of about 90 additional specialists, 60 vehicles, 50 small-scale apartments and training; (iv) modernization and reconstruction of 14 agro-industrial facilities, including four fruit and vegetable processing plants, three cold stores for fruit and meat production, two livestock feed mills, five specialized facilities (oil mill, potato processing plant, poultry slaughterhouse, a communal slaughterhouse and grain silo); (v) drainage facilities in about 27,000 hectares; and (vi) technical assistance to Agrobanka to provide banking, credit experts, and computer equipment.