DEVELOPMENT OF AGRICULTURE IN RURAL AREAS OF SERBIA

Abstract

There is a million unemployed persons in Serbia nowadays. At the same time, every fourth village, of 5.000 villages in Serbia, is on the way to disappear. One and a half decade from now, only monuments are to stay, as a testimony of recent existence. And while people are without jobs and villages are disappearing, opportunities for reducing negative trends in Serbian villages and development in rural areas are not exploited. More then a half workers, who lost their jobs, could be employed in rural areas in Serbia. And, not only the workers, who lost their jobs due to structural unsuitableness of production, years of sanctions and transition crisis, but the workers who lost their jobs in companies in which they worked before NATO bombardment. All this result in fact those workers are still with one foot in the opanak and the other in the shoe. However, the return to rural areas of the country doesn't imply return to hoes and tractors, but employing workers for agricultural and similar jobs-in: forestry, hydraulicity, service activities, handcrafting, household industry, infrastructural, small and medium enterprises (there are 250.000 of SMEs, and the aim is 400.000), not harming ecological counterbalance.