USING MODERN AGRO-MEASURES AND PRACTICES TO REDUCE FOOD IMPORTS IN THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH MACEDONIA

Author(s): Strezovski, Gj
Article Тitle: USING MODERN AGRO-MEASURES AND PRACTICES TO
REDUCE FOOD IMPORTS IN THE REPUBLIC
OF NORTH MACEDONIA
Journal: International Dialogue: East-West
Publication Year: 2025
Publication Type: Journal Article
Article Type: Paper
Volume, Issue: 11(1)
Pages: 59-67
DOI:
ISSN (print): 1857-9299
ISSN (online): 1857-9302
UDC:339.562.055.4:338.439(497.7)
339.562:311.21(497.7)“2014/2023“

APA 7 citation
Strezovski, Gj. (2025). Using modern agro-measures and practices to reduce food imports in the Republic of North Macedonia. International Dialogue: East-West, 11(1), 59–67.

Harvard citation
Strezovski, Gj. (2025) ‘Using Modern Agro-Measures and Practices to Reduce Food Imports in the Republic of North Macedonia’, International Dialogue: East-West, 11(1), pp. 59–67.

Abstract: When it comes to the production of foodstuffs and food in general, we can easily state that Macedonia is an import dependent country. We have no meat enough, no grain, no fodder, nor edible oil, and we completely import sugar… The covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine haveshown how important it is to have your own production of what is meant by strategic food, so the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and water Menagement has strengthened measures for domestic strategic food production, because what we could see so far from the data published every year by the State Statistics Office, in the last dozen of years we have seen a drastic increase in dependence on import. In addition, the volume of the export of food products in the past period cannot even remotely follow the volume of the import. In this paper I will try to sublimate a set of measures that should be implemented by the Ministry, and which of course should have a multiplier effect, increasing the domestic production of food productd and seriously reducing food imports on the one hand (reducing the outflow of funds from the state) and reducing the prices of strategic products on the domestic market on the other hand.

Keywords: Import of food; agricultural production; agri-business; food export; redemption; market risks.