Deputy Director of the Serbian government's Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Dusan Kozarev presented on Wednesday in Gracanica, contracts for 50 aid packages to returnee farmers in the municipalities of Pec/Peja, Istok/Istog, Klina/Klline, Urosevac/Ferizaj and Gora.

The aid packages in the form of agricultural machinery, provided by the Office for KiM though public procurement totalling around RSD 10 million, is a co-funded project under IPA 2012, a broader project worth EUR 2.4 million.

The Office for KiM will continue to support farms in the province, to the extent allowed by Serbia's finances, in order to ensure that all those who choose to live off their land are able to do so, said Kozarev.