Kolašin farmers and fruit growers have been avoiding stalls at the city market for years, so they display their products on the sidewalk, car hoods, or some other suitable area.
For that, they use the very entrance of the market, but there are also near Vukman Kruščić Square or in the area under the temple of St. Dimitrije.
For this reason, the city market, which is formally called "green", has not been a place for selling vegetables and fruits for a long time.
At any given time, at least half of the stalls are empty, while others sell clothes.
There are fewer and fewer sellers of domestic fruits and vegetables every year.
Late summer or early autumn are the only times of the year when the bar around the market is colorful with these products.
I don't want it on the counter, because they are arranged inappropriately and don't suit me. No one sees me because now only the ones at the end of the market are free, so few people would go there to buy something", says Momir Perović from Donjo Morača.
The director of Komunalno Milivoje Bulatović explains that the company manages the city market, which should also be "green".
"There used to be a demand for more stalls in our market. There were too few stalls for all those selling fruit and vegetables. Now, unfortunately, about 65 percent of the market is empty. Fewer and fewer people use it. Only at this time of the year is it possible to see farmers with their products. There are fewer and fewer of them, and that is worrying," says Bulatović.
Those who were selling around the market last week and avoided the stalls, mostly did not want to talk about the reasons for that.
Momir Perović from Donjo Morača displayed several crates with Morač plums, tomatoes and onions fifty meters below the entrance to the market.
He used the sidewalk near the building of the regional unit of the Forestry Administration.
"A few days ago, I tried to sell at the entrance to the market, but one of the people who runs the wardrobe stall chased me away. I guess I was in the way, it was tight for them. I don't want it on the counter, because they are arranged inappropriately and don't suit me. "No one sees me, because now only the ones at the end of the market are free, so few people would go there to buy anything," explains Perović.
He says that this is the reason why others also sell fruits and vegetables on the sidewalks. Perović suggests that the stalls be placed in a circle, so that everyone in that sales area is "equally visible".
With the current layout, he explains, only five or six sellers are well positioned.
The area of the market in Kolašin has been the same for more than half a century, unconditioned and disordered. As Urban Planning Secretary Ljiljana Rakočević told "Vijesta" recently, the up-to-date arrangement of that space was prevented, among other things, by the fact that many projects were "trapped by bad planning documentation".
"According to the current Detailed Urban Plan (DUP) 'Centar', the area of the market also includes two private houses in the immediate vicinity. This means that the beginning of the development of that space would also mean the expropriation of the property, for which the Municipality does not have the money and which would significantly increase the cost of the project. With the new Spatial Plan, which should be adopted by the end of the year, that problem will be solved, that is, space will be opened for the reconstruction of the market", announced Rakočević.
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