Bermet vine and kulen from Backi Petrovac - the first Serbian food brands

"Bermet" vine from Fruska gora and kulen from Backi Petrovac will be the first Serbian national brands from the area of food industry which will be promoted at the foreign market, as announced by the advisor in the Ministry off agriculture, water commerce and forestry, Branislav Raketic.

He says that Serbia has a great number of food products that can become national brands abd because of that the Ministry of agriculture has started a procedure of making a strategy action plan for the agricultural-food products.

This plan should help producers of goods with specific marks to enter the procedure of geographic origin protection, so they could be later promoted at the national and international market as national brands.

Protection of domestic agricultural-food producst will stop forgery and would make the export much easier with a higher price.

It is in plan a creation of a data base of all food products in Serbia which have potential for the geographic origin protection and based on that it is in plan a creation of a long term strategy of support to the producers of this kind of goods.

Ministry of agriculture invited unions of producers and local management, tourist organizations and other interested parties to fill out the Form for the protection of geographic origin , which can be found on web site of the Ministry www.minpolj.sr.gov.yu, and to send it by October, 10th, of this year.