Pljevlja municipality allocates over one million euros for agriculture

Bosiljka Ćuzović won first place in the old cheese category at the 23rd Days of Pljevlja Cheese festival in Montenegro.

The event gathered 60 livestock breeders and numerous producers of traditional domestic goods to compete for titles in various dairy categories. Milena Tomić took the top prize for the best old kajmak, while Dragoslav Marjanović won the category for sheep and goat cheese.

Other winners included Milojka Vuković for the best young kajmak and Branojka Ječmenica for the best pita sirnica. The festival serves to maintain the reputation of Pljevlja cheese, which currently holds the ninth position on the Atlas of Taste of the World. Dario Vraneš, the president of the Pljevlja Municipality, announced an agricultural budget of 1,055,000 euros for 2026. The municipality plans to allocate roughly 60 percent of these funds to four measures directly related to livestock farming.

Specifically, 270,000 euros of that budget will go toward direct support for producers of Pljevlja cheese. The local government also introduced a measure to improve quality of life in rural areas to encourage young people to remain in the countryside. The municipality awarded a total of 50,000 euros to six young farmers. Dragana Knežević and Flora Tešović each received 9,000 euros, while Aleksandar Pupović, Đorđije Laketić, Faruk Tursumović, and Šćepan Vuković each received 8,000 euros.