Activities for promotion of local food and protected agricultural products in Slovenia

Activities for promotion of Local Slovenian food have been carried out through several national projects. One of the most prominent ones is the project Traditional Slovenian breakfast. Other projects include advertising campaigns (We Are Connected with delicacies from our countryside, Fresh food from your vicinity, Be aware of local origin), school schemes (School fruit scheme, School milk scheme), events (Goodness of farms in Ptuj, The countryside in the city), website promotion (Buy local), and brand establishment (Buy Slovenian). For protection of agricultural products and foodstuffs there are 3 European quality schemes: Protected designation of origin, Protected geographical indication, and Traditional speciality guaranteed. Besides the three European schemes in Slovenia there is also another scheme for protection, Designation of higher quality. In Slovenia are 5 protected milk products, all of them cheeses. Under the quality scheme Protected designation of origin are included: Mohant cheese, Nanos cheese, Tolminc cheese, and Bovec cheese, Under the quality scheme Higher quality is included: Semi-hard cheese without preservatives - semihard cheeses of Zelena dolina

Dairy market in Slovenia

Diary production keeps being the most important orientation of Slovenian agriculture. It accounts for about 15% of the total value of agricultural production in recent years, and 32% of the value of livestock. Milk production in Slovenia consistently exceeds domestic consumption. The paper presents important data on dairy market balances with milk and dairy products production, consumption and trade. In addition, it presents and compares prices and policies in Slovenia and the other European Union (EU) countries. Finally, it assess the market potential for organic products and products produced, processed and traded according to three EU quality schemes: protected designation of origin, protected geographical indication and traditional speciality guaranteed

Optimal Network of General Hospitals in Slovenia

This article explores how the minimum number of general hospital locations can be determined with optimal population coverage. Due to the increasing financial problems of hospitals and the poor organization of general hospital healthcare, Slovenia is currently working to reform the healthcare system. Defining the optimal network of hospital providers is one of the key elements in reforming the healthcare system. To define the optimal network of general hospitals, the allocation-location model was used, and the maximize attendance model was used as the central method. The chief purpose of maximize attendance model is to optimize the demand attendance with respect to distance and time spent getting to the point of demand. In the analysis of optimal locations and the number of Slovenian general hospitals, we used data on the locations of settlements with their number of inhabitants and data on the Slovenian road network, based on which we defined average travel speeds on the categorized road network. The hypothetical locations of general hospitals and the number of optimally located general hospitals that provide access to the nearest provider were determined in three different time intervals. We found that the same accessibility to hospital services as provided by the existing network of general hospitals can be achieved with only ten optimally located general hospitals within a 30-min time interval. This means that two general hospitals could be rationalized or reorganized, which would bring significant savings in the field of hospital activity, which creates a large loss in the health system in Slovenia

Measuring efficiency of secondary healthcare providers in Slovenia

The chief aim of this study was to analyze secondary healthcare providers' efficiency, focusing on the efficiency analysis of Slovene general hospitals. We intended to present a complete picture of technical, allocative, and cost or economic efficiency of general hospitals