BUSINESS PARTNER
SHAIP KAMBERI, PRESIDENT OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF BUJANOVAC
BUSINESS
WE ARE GRATEFUL For The Assistance The Municipality of Bujanovac occupies a fifth of the territory of the Pčinja District, where 15% of the population of this district lives and has an extremely favourable age structure, which represents valuable and dynamic social potential for social and economic development
T
hanks to Japan’s donation for de-mining operations, the security of citizens will soon be increased and conditions will be created to enable forestry exploitation, livestock grazing, mushroom picking and activities that determine the incomes of the local population.
excluding freelance entrepreneurs, stands at 5,478. There are more men, 3,853, while women account for only 1,625, which is just 30 per cent. The number of employees of entrepreneurships, including freelance entrepreneurs, totals 1,264, of which 333, or 26 per cent, are women.
Japanese ambassador to Serbia, H.E. Junichi Maruyama, visOpportunities for the development of your municipality rely on the food, non-ferrous metals, tobacco, furniture, plasited the site of the Turijaska Hills de-mining project last year. What is the value of this work and why is it important? tics, mining, textiles and construction industries. Are there - On the basis of the Agreement on the approval of a Japanese any potential foreign investors? donation for de-mining operations in the Municipality of Bu- The specificities of the municipality of Bujanovac are primarily found in the demographic characteristics of the population: janovac with the International Foundation for Strengthening ethnic composition, the participation of young people and the Human Security (ITF), a project was implemented to de-mine rate of natural growth. According to the 2002 census, the majority the Končulj-Singerit site, on an area of 198,600m2, and a depopulation in the two municipalities of Bujanovac and Preševo mining project for the Turijaska Brda site, covering an area of is ethnically Albanian (Bujanovac 54.69%, 389,200m2. During the implementation of Preševo 89.1%). Serbs represent 34.14% these projects, 20 anti-personnel mines The most important industries in were found and destroyed, as well as 15 of the population in Bujanovac and 8.55% Bujanovac are food, non-ferrous units of various unexploded ordnances. in Preševo. Roma people are account for 8.93% of the population of Bujanovac. The importance of this project can metals, furniture, plastics, mining, Unlike the rest of Serbia and the Pčinja also be measured by the fact that during tobacco, textiles and construction 2003, at the same location, one resident of District, the natural population growth rate is positive in Bujanovac and Presevo. the village of Veliki Trnovac was killed and Furthermore, another characteristic of these two municipalities another was injured due to the explosion of anti-personnel mines. is the significantly higher participation of the young populaThat area hasn’t been able to be used since for safety reasons. tion and the significantly lower participation of elderly people The Government of Japan also awarded the municipality of compared to the national level, expressed through measures of Bujanovac a donation worth 109,000 euros in 2017. How was average age, the ageing index, the dependency rate of the younger it used and how much did it mean to the residents of your population and the dependency rate of the older population. municipality? Some 847 businesses are registered on the territory of the - The Japanese then donated €109,000 to us for the purchase municipality of Bujanovac, 269 of which fall among small and of a water tank and ambulance vehicles. The procurement of medium-sized enterprises, while 578 are freelance entreprethese vehicles has contributed greatly to improving the working neurs. In Bujanovac we also have 35 industrial plants of various conditions of utility services and healthcare providers, which categories, in which 15 companies account for about 82 per cent was particularly important during the peak of the passage of of total operating income. migrants through our municipality. It is important to stress that our municipality has 30,264 working-age residents, while the total number of employees, 39
