Our goal is to provide support to farmers in all steps in the product certification process. Currently, a large number of farmers are “stuck” halfway to the market, often with excellent products or semi-products but usually without sufficient knowledge, resources or motivation for the formal product registration process.
Smart Village will offer support to farmers to make it easier to go through all stages of product marketing – from its registration, laboratory analysis, certification, packaging, branding and promotion.
Local Store with local products will be reactivated inside already existing ethno-village inside Smart Village campus as part of its touristic offer.
Product finalization. Focus will be placed on identifying existing products or activities that, with appropriate finalization, have prominent marketing potential. It may refer to semi-product finishing, treatment, sorting, packaging or product design. Smart Vilage should ensure the procurement and commissioning of the most needed equipment, atrought providing education and proffessional support that would enable rapid placing of existing semi-products on the market.
Rural e-commerce service Smart Village commerce is committed to take big step forward to global ICT services dealing with the sale of agricultural products. We want to use great opportunity comming from ICT usage as are faster communication, finance transactions and transport services in order to start and promote new and innovative model of local slow foods trade to global scale.
We are open for cooperation to all other stakeholders along the the path as are another Smart Villages, grocery chains, transport companies, warehouses etc. commited to networking and partnerships building.
Social cooperation and rural enterpreneurship Our goal is to investigate, identify and organize perspective agricultural activities for local people, providing them clear economic benefit and perspective.
This includes taking an active role in organizing the procurement of inputs, professional support, purchase and sale of agricultural products.
Among all, Smart Village tend to help farmers to develop their own succesfull bussines models.
Roural Tourism. Knezica village is placed in culturaly and historicaly unique environment, known by vivid and strong ethnical and historic heritage. There is plentifull historical heritage bonded to WW2 with numerous localities suitable for recreational tors. Natural surounding interesting as well, due to the fact that village is in close proximity to National Park Kozara.
The heart of Smart Vllage is represented by authentic ethno village builded in Dinaric style with preserved artifacts, furniture and agriculture equipment from past centuries.
Taking into account that local households still keeps strong tradition customs, initiative has been taken to bring them to next level through offering accomodation and other touristic experience aiming at including local inhabitants into the process of development.
In such an initiative, the local services and recources are intended to be used in orded to accelerate local economy. By providing services dispersed in different locations, the concept requires cooperation of the whole community to be sustainable. Tourism development brings new job possibilities, new infrastructure as well as more lively social connections to the region. At the same time, a sustainable approach to tourism development will help with preserving, presenting and celebrating local and regional cultural characteristics and heritage, increasing their universal value and potentials.
