The National Prosciutto and Cured Meats Fair with International Participation in Sinj promotes the traditional way of producing cured meat products in cooperation with the new standards. Thanks to the constant engagement of all associates, manufacturers, institutions, and experts, the fair is being held for the sixteenth year in a row.
This year’s National Prosciutto Fair sponsors are the Ministry of Agriculture, with co-organizers the City of Sinj and Split-Dalmatia County.
In recent years, the National Prosciutto Fair in Sinj was held in March or April and took on an international character due to the participation of exhibitors from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Italy. The number of exhibitors ranges around 70 (assuming from previous years) with several thousand visitors. The exhibition part of the Fair is planned for the outer part of the Alkar Hotel, where, in addition to cured meat products, premium cheese, wines, and olive oil will be exhibited, as well as traditional useful products produced in rural Dalmatia, Lika and Slavonia, and from the area of islands in Split-Dalmatia County. The grand opening, workshops, and expert evaluation are planned for the interior of the Alkar Hotel in compliance with all prescribed epidemiological measures.
Producers of prosciutto, cured meat, and other autochthonous products from Croatia, the regional meat industry, producers’ associations, family farms engaged in pig breeding and prosciutto production, and representatives of the tourism sector are expected to participate in the Fair this year, in compliance with all epidemiological measures. and caterers.
They plan to evaluate the quality and specificity of prosciutto from individual producers on June 4, 2021.
Professional quality assessment of prosciutto, as before, will be performed based on the “Ordinance on the quality assessment of prosciutto.” The evaluation of the quality of prosciutto is public in the presence of members of the expert committee and the media. The products of the Fair’s participants will be evaluated.
As in previous years, in addition to the exhibition part of the fair, there are plans to organize professional-educational panels where producers and visitors could be informed about topics related to financing through tenders and programs of Rural Development, which finances investment in small and large farms, i.e., economic entities engaged in the production and processing of indigenous products, such as Dalmatian prosciutto. In addition, they will look at the protection of indigenous products and quality labels, the introduction of standards, models of association, trends, opportunities for cooperation, new opportunities for young people, and other programs encouraged and funded by the government and other institutions.
EXHIBITION PROGRAM / EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AND ROUND TABLES
Day 1 – June 4, 2021, FRIDAY
08:30 -11: 00 Panel workshop – Sensory analytics – professional evaluation
09:00 ARRIVAL OF EXHIBITORS / Exhibition of prosciutto and cured meat products / Presentation of cheese, Presentation of indigenous food products and wines
09:30 FAIR OPEN TO VISITORS
11:00 Cultural and artistic program of the Fair
11:30 OPENING FAIR
12:00 Tour of exhibitors, press statements, and tastings
As part of the Fair, round tables, lectures, and presentations will be organized with the following topics:
Presentation of the program: Government and other institutions, associations and chambers, banks, development programs of the Split-Dalmatia County, development programs of the city of Sinj, Promotion of Quality Labels – “Croatian Quality” and “Originally Croatian” – HGK – Split County Chamber
12:45 News in 2021 from the Rural Development Program – Towards sub-measure 6.3.1- “support for the development of small farms.”
14:00 Round table – Models of entrepreneurship development (youth, women, beginners),
Presentation of traditional products, Cultural and artistic program
Promotion of products with the label “Croatian island product”
– Cultural and entertainment program for visitors and exhibitors
EXHIBITION PROGRAM / EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM AND ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAM
Day 2 – June 5, 2021, SATURDAY
08:30 FAIR OPEN TO VISITORS
10:00 Workshop – training for young people in the field of agriculture, tourism, and entrepreneurship
News in 2021 from the Rural Development Program
Self-employment programs
12:00 PRODUCT TASTING AND PROMOTION –
CULTURAL AND ART PROGRAM
Gastronomy (traditional products – In Zemane)
Clusters as a model of association – examples of good practice,
Sensory analytics: Importance of prosciutto quality assessment
-13: 00 Announcement of competition results
Winner announcement
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