Serbia does not yet meet EU requirements for laying hens

A deadline for these requirements has been set several times for that accession, Agromessages Abroad reports. The final deadline expires at the end of this year. Poultry Business Association director Rade Skoric said poultry farmers should replace existing cages with more comfortable ones and the country should open a control laboratory. In Serbia, the eggs are cheaper at roughly 20 euro cents each in the shop than, for example, the 30 cents that eggs cost in Austria and Hungary. And that while egg prices in Serbia at farm level rose by 30 percent last year due to higher feed costs. Because the eggs do not meet EU requirements, they are exported to Bosnia-Herzegovina, North Macedonia, Montenegro and Albania, among others. Serbia has 1,100 registered laying hen farms with a total of 4.5 ...