Memorandum on Export of Serbian Corn and Sugar Beet Noodles to China Signed

The protocol on the phytosanitary requirements for the export of Serbian corn and dried sugar beet noodles to China have been signed by Serbian Agriculture Minister Branislav Nedimovic and Chinese Ambassador to Belgrade Chen Bo through a video link, on behalf of the General Customs Administration of China.

Serbia is among the ten biggest exporters of corn in the world and will soon be able to export corn to the market of China, which is the world’s biggest buyers of corn.

The Ministry of Agriculture will control the production process on farms and supervise the companies which export corn to China, and all the storage spaces for the corn meant for the Chinese market will have to be registered.

The protocol on the export of corn pertains to the phytosanitary requirements, and when it comes to the export of dried sugar beet noodles, to the sanitary and the phytosanitary requirements.

This is an ideal time, a month and half or two months before the sowing of corn, to open one such big market, to which large quantities can be exported, Nedimovic said.

These days, which is a lucky circumstance for producers, we have record prices of corn, he said and added that it was very important to open this market and start preparing an agreement on pork meat as well.

The minister expressed hope that Chinese agricultural products would find their place in Serbian market as well and reminded that considerable success had been achieved in the trade between the two countries in a short amount of time.

– Several years ago, there was almost no agricultural trade. Today, in the first 11 months of 2020, it exceeded USD 50 million – Nedimovic said.

The biggest corn exporters from Serbia (in 2019)

• Agroglobe
• Delta Agrar
• CHS Serbia
• Konzul
• Anova NNL