The Holstein Association of Greece (HAGR) was established three years ago and is recognized according to the Greek law. HAGR is the first countrywide organization having as basic goal the genetic improvement of the Holstein cattle breed and the efficient management of dairy farms. The Association is based in Thessaloniki and expands its activities throughout Greece by the establishment of regional councils.
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For its purpose the Association may be\nrepresented and cooperate with the public sector, as well as any other agencies\nof similar interest both domestic and international. The services provided by\nthe Hellenic Holstein Association are compatible with the standards defined by\nthe Greek Ministry of Agriculture and the European Union.
\nThe registration rules of the Holstein Association of Greece (HAGR) provide for\nthe free membership of dairy farmers. From its founding and operational day,\nthe HAGR is actively trying to increase its member base and to lower the cost\nof recording. In this mission we view dairy farmers as our prospective\ncustomers within an environment that operates under free market guidelines.\nTherefore we apply marketing and communication principles in order to approach\nand register them as our members.
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HAGR\u2019s process of contracting farmers\ncomes after the evaluation of data that are available to us through government\nagencies, and third party institutions, which carry their research through\nquestionnaires. By evaluating the available data, we are interested to get a\nclear picture of the individual producers business profile and their true needs\nbut also to develop a plan of what they should look for to run their farm on a\nprofitable and sustainable basis.
\nIn this mission we have developed a clear and concise pricing policy in order\nto be able to offer the consumer an easy way to purchase our services. Our\nprofessional associate personalizes the HAGR by communicating on a\nperson-to-person basis with our current and prospective members. HAGR\u2019s message\nis that we go beyond offering services of exceptional quality. In this context\nupon visiting prospective members, our associates go into great detail on\nexplaining the services we provide but always maintaining our commitment to\nunderstanding the farmers\u2019 needs.
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Together with better marketing to the\nproducers we are also actively involved into constantly improving our internal\noperation. Aiming to improve our services we have invested in better educating\nour workforce, provide them with better salaries and hire more staff according\nto our expanding needs. As we firmly believe that there is no better cost and\ntime effective way to promote and expand a service than through our own\nassociates, each one knows that all their behavior has an interaction direct or\nindirect connected with the success of HAGR.
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The Holstein Association of Greece has\nas mission don\u2019t simply to apply in a little better way, the recording\npractices which have been already introduced and failed in the previous\nperiods, but to offer her services in a very different way. We locate teams of\nproducers that present particular interest. Our mission is to apply innovative,\ncarefully studied, excellently coordinated services, with good quality and low\nprice, covering the needs and the wishes of the farmers. Because however we\nunderstand that we owe to know very well our customers, that is to say our\nmembers-dairy farmers, we attend to be as good as possible informed. At the\nsame time we study carefully the structure of their enterprises in order to\nfind what really they would wish to buy. Simultaneously we assemble as much as\npossible information on the competition and we re-define our services, without\nhowever following an aggressive competitive strategy.
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The Holstein Association of Greece has\nbeen established not solely to attract the dairy farmers by offering superior\nquality services at an affordable cost for both the HAGR and its members. We\nvalue human relationship and we measure our success by this standard that is\nessential in animal recording. We do our best to include in our business plan\nevery aspect of the dairy industry, from our relation with governmental\nofficials and participation in working groups of international bodies down to\nthe friendly personal relations with farmers. Today, the structure of the Greek\ndairy industry is rapidly changing. The Holstein Association of Greece is\nprepared to play a leading role in bringing its expertise in this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Contact: The Holstein Association of Greece (HAGR) was established three years ago and is recognized according to the Greek law. HAGR is the first countrywide organization having as basic goal the genetic improvement of the Holstein cattle breed and the efficient management of dairy farms. The Association is based in Thessaloniki and expands its activities throughout…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-685","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":687,"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/685\/revisions\/687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/holstein.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHolstein Association of Greece
\n10th klm Thessaloniki – Lagada
\nDerveni – P.C. 57200, P.O. BOX 4
\nLagadas Thessaloniki
\ntel.: +30 23940 – 20269 \/ 73286
\nfax: +30 23940 – 72859
\ne-mail: info@holstein.gr<\/a> \/ holstein@otenet.gr<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"