State Initiatives
1. A census of agriculture will be conducted from October to December
2. Subsidies for farmers have been paid by the Ministry of Agriculture
3. BioSens: The monitoring of false subsidy applications for 18 months
4. The government has adopted several amended regulations in agriculture
5. An increase in excise duty rates to raise pensions and subsidies
6. An increase in the agricultural budget, after rebalancing, to 97.2 billion RSD
Foreign Aid
7. Small-scale Serbian producers are entering the markets of big cities
8. Regenerative agriculture may solve problems in food production
Private Sector
9. Serbia, the region’s former major food producer, struggles to curb inflation
10. Farmer’s Associations are unhappy with the partial fulfilment of demands
11. Serbian meat processing company Mitros will cease its production
12. Wheat production increased, and corn is expected to surge
13. An agreement to increase exports to China which currently make up 1%
14. There has been a decline in potato production and processing
15. The economic war between Russia and the West impacts Serbian farmers
16. Serbia’s prices are affected by products from Ukraine and other countries
17. The African Swine Fever epidemic has devastated Serbia and Europe
18. Exports would save the state of organic production in Serbia
19. A drastic decrease in the price of cereals, fruit, and industrial plants
20. Last year, Serbia exported half of the frozen raspberries exported in 2019
