NGO Krajina is non-government citizen’s organization established on in April 1996 and registered since 1997 in Municipal Court in Banja Luka. The NGO
Krajina has implemented 156 international and domestic projects in the field of civil society development, institutional and new non-government organizations strengthening revitalization of local development agencies, SMEs and agricultural sector and many others. The business incubator in sector of agriculture is one of the current projects within the Organisation. The Business Incubator Banja Luka has three offices located in area of Banja Luka, Nova Topola and Derventa and 11 employees. The incubator is financially supported by EU, Banja Luka City and Laktaši Municipality. All offices of the Business Incubator Banja Luka are primarily active in development and expansion of agricultural production (production of organic food, fattening of stock and establishment of small farms) and development of SMEs. Besides activities in producing healthy food, the incubator is also developing a project focusing on production of remedial herb, setting up new technologies (site on Manjaca and micro-sites in the area of municipalities of Teslić, Čelinac, Prnjavor, Laktaši and Gradiska). The incubator established the first electronic Agro-stock market in BiH, which found the cooperation with “Poljopriveda.info” (agricultural internet magazine) and “Vibiliom” (service of business information).

Services provided by the Business Incubator Banja Luka include:
• Specific training for agricultural producers and cooperatives (e.g. municipality administration in admission process and methodology in agriculture in accession to EU);
• Support in writing project proposals and their implementation;
• Consultancy in agriculture management.

In February 2011 there was no additional information on the operations of the business incubator available. The Websites last update was in 2008.

Contact person:
Mirela Zrnić, Director
E-mail: ngo.dem@blic.net

Further contact details are provide below.