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The Republic Institute of Statistics, in accordance with the Law on the Census of Agriculture 2023 and within the framework of projects of the European Union's pre-accession funds IPA 2018, prepared, organised and implemented the 2023 Agriculture Census in the period from 1 October to 15 December 2023.
During the mentioned period, 253 municipal coordinators and 2,842 enumerators were engaged in the Census, who visited approximately 740,000 agricultural farms – family farms, farms of legal entities and entrepreneurs.
The data was collected by the interview method in the field based on the Directory of Agricultural Farms, and the farms of commercial companies and agricultural cooperatives independently entered data into the web questionnaire, which was available until 1 June 2023.
The basic characteristics of agricultural holdings that were entered during this census are identification data of holdings, land fund and categories of agricultural land use, as well as data on the workforce and the number of livestock.
The significance of the results of the 2023 Agriculture Census is that it provides a comprehensive, internationally comparable overview of the structural characteristics of agriculture, as well as the basis for creating a sustainable agricultural policy.
The first results of the Agriculture Census show that in the Republic of Serbia, in 2023, there were 508,365 farms, of which 99.6% were family farms engaged in agricultural production.
The average agricultural holding cultivates 6.4 hectares, raises one head of cattle, five heads of pigs, three sheep, 43 heads of poultry and has about three hives of bees. Compared to data from 2018, the number of farms decreased by 10%
The total used land area is 3,257,100 hectares.
The areas of land used in agriculture have decreased. There are 28.7 fewer meadows and pastures than in 2018, the area under orchards decreased by 9.7%, and under vineyards by 11.1%. Only the area of land on the homestead increased, by 51.5%.
The number of all domestic animals has decreased, with the exception of bees, which are 38% more than in 2018.
The number of goats decreased the most – 31.5%, pigs decreased by 30.7%, while the number of cattle decreased by 17.7%.
The census showed that the average age of the head of a family farm is 60 years, while only one in eleven heads of the farm is younger than 40 years old.
Also, the largest number of persons engaged in agricultural production was recorded in the region of Šumadija and Western Serbia, where the largest number of engaged women is also – 231,118.
The first data from the results of the 2023 Census of Agriculture showed that out of the total number of farms, even 61.7% are engaged in animal husbandry, and the most cattle and pigs are raised in the Macva region. The largest number of sheep and bees are raised in the Zlatibor region, goats are raised the most in Pcinja, while the largest number of poultry are raised in the Central Banat region.
The largest areas of arable land and gardens are represented in the Region of Vojvodina (55.8%), while orchards are most represented in the Region of Sumadija and Western Serbia (54.9%).
The results of the census will be published successively, during 2024 and 2025