"Life without roads, water, electricity and health care in the countryside is not a life worthy of a human". "How can my cattle live in a new, modern barn, and I and my family for a century and a half in an old house, half of which has no pathos". (Unknown farmer)
These days, special attention of the public is being captured by the first significant grant and credit fund from Abu Dhabi, intended to encourage the development of agriculture and rural economy in Montenegro. Hand on heart, this possibility pleases every well-intentioned citizen, considering the pronounced imbalances in the sector of production and consumption of agricultural and food products in Montenegro.
The reason why I started talking about this topic lies in the fact that I am not sure that the policy of spending these funds is the most fortunately chosen.
What is the problem (or my dilemma)? Well, in that it has been known since ancient times (both in theory and in practice) that a wide range of agricultural and rural infrastructure is built from grants. And, under very favorable credit conditions (due to nine specificities of agriculture and the countryside, which no other economic branch has), the production structure in the field, barn, industrial plant, etc. is financed.
This practice established the rule that for loans invested in agricultural and rural infrastructure, there are usually no sources from which to return large loan funds, which are a prerequisite for all conditions for successful agricultural production.
Against this fact stands the reminder that rural and production infrastructure (roads, quality of electricity supply, water supply, health services, connections between the village and the market and other problems) is almost in a catastrophic state?!
In countries that were guided by a policy of priority solving of infrastructure problems, it turned out to be the strongest flywheel on the way to exploiting the natural and market advantages of a country, on the one hand, and on the other, valid market and economic positioning of producers (farmers).
Compared to the previous one, it is known that Cna Gora is at the very bottom of the European scale in terms of water use for agricultural (production) purposes. Until today (as far as I know), it has not applied almost any stimulating measures regarding the development of food production with plenty of water. In Montenegrin climatic conditions, it is a priority over priorities and it is one of the crucial issues of any good land policy!
In most of the agriculturally developed countries of Europe, state grant funds were primarily used for investments that mean bringing water to the producer's plot. The distribution of water on the plot (field) is also a concern of the producer on economic grounds.
All in all, if we continue to keep the mentioned problems on the sidelines of current and development efforts (at the same time, I bear in mind that certain efforts are being made in this area), Montenegro will continue to hold the torch among the developed countries of Europe in agriculture, and the economic the power of farmers will constantly hang on a thin thread of market and economic laws.
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