International competition of snail exports from Serbia: Chalanges and prospectives

Abstract

Outdoors snail farming in Serbia is becoming more attractive in recent years The new snail growers assume that farming snails is profit promising and is relatively competitive in comparison to other types of agricultural production. Implicitly, it is also believed, that this production is internationally competitive. As a prospective markets the countries of the EU, such as France or Italy, are understood, because these countries are not self sufficient in snail production. Research interest in snail farming in Serbia in the past couple of years was primarily oriented to farming problems without analysis of competition. Therefore this paper is aimed to analyze international competition of snails exported from Serbia.

U novije vreme u Srbiji raste interesovanje za proizvodnju puževa u kontrolisanim uslovima. Potencijalni proizvođači polaze od uverenja da farmsko gajenje puževa donosi sigurnu zaradu i da je konkurentno u odnosu na ostale oblike poljoprivredne proizvodnje. Implicitno se takođe pretpostavlja da je ova vrsta proizvodnje konkurentna i na međunarodnom tržištu. Kao potencijalna tržišta plasmana najčešćee se navode zemlje EU koje nisu samodovoljne u ovoj proizvodnji, kao na primer Italija i Francuska. Naučna javnost se do sada uglavnom bavila proizvodnim problemima, bez ulaženja u problematiku konkurentnosti. Zbog toga ovaj rad ima za cilj da analizira međunarodnu konkurentnost puževa izvezenih iz Srbije.