The value of sales of domestic agricultural products in the second quarter of this year (April, May and June) amounted to EUR 12.1 million, and this is the highest amount recorded for this quarter so far. This is a growth of 71 percent compared to the same period last year.
In the same period last year, the value of the sale of domestic agricultural products amounted to seven million euros, of which 4.8 million were from own production and 2.2 million were purchased from producers.
For the period from January to June of this year, the value of sales and purchases of domestic agricultural products amounted to EUR 21.7 million, which is 51 percent more than in the pre-crisis year of 2019. Part of this growth is due to the increase in the prices of those products, but from the data on production by category, it can be said that there is significant progress in quantities, especially in the production of domestic eggs.
In the structure of the value of the purchase and sale of agricultural products for the second quarter of this year, the most represented production is the production of chicken eggs, which accounts for 24.7 percent of the value of the total domestic production. Raw cow’s milk participates in 24.3 percent of production, fresh vegetables 15.5 percent, livestock by species and categories participates with 10.8 percent, fruit with 7.1 percent, fresh fish with 6.3 percent, fruit and grape products 0.6 percent, industrial plants 0.3 percent and other products with 10.5 million.
The production of domestic chicken eggs was worth three million euros in this quarter, and another 2.4 million in the first quarter. The total domestic production of eggs for these six months amounted to EUR 5.4 million, while in that period the import of that article was worth EUR 774 thousand. So the need for eggs on the Montenegrin market is met by domestic production with 87 percent.
Raw domestic cow’s milk was sold in the second quarter worth EUR 2.9 million, and in the first quarter for EUR 2.5 million. So the total domestic sales of fresh milk for six months amounted to EUR 5.4 million. For the same period, milk imports were worth EUR 10.6 million, so domestic production covered a third of the market’s needs for these six months.
The value of domestically sold vegetables in the second quarter was worth EUR 1.88 million, and in the first quarter it was EUR 1.1 million, or a total of EUR 2.9 million for six months. For the same period, the import of vegetables was worth EUR 17.3 million, so that in the total need for vegetables, domestic production was worth 14 percent.
The production and purchase of domestic livestock in the second quarter was worth EUR 1.3 million, and in the first quarter EUR 1.5 million. The total import of only live livestock for these six months was worth EUR 23.2 million, so domestic production covered only 12 percent of needs. The import of meat and meat products was worth an additional EUR 60 million. So domestic meat production would be worth only 3.3 percent of the total consumption of meat and meat products.
