Serbia farm subsidies frozen at 84.8 billion dinars
Serbian farmers have received 84.8 billion dinars in subsidies, 82.5 percent of the plan, the same figures the ministry reported a month ago. The seed subsidy still has no payment date.
Serbia’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management announced on September 21 that farmers across the country have received 84.8 billion dinars in incentives since the start of the year. According to figures on the ministry’s website, that amount covers 82.5% of the total payments planned under the various agricultural support programs.
The same figure and the same percentage, 84.8 billion dinars and 82.5%, were also reported by the ministry on August 19, as Glas zapadne Srbije wrote at the time. Based on the numbers in both statements, the volume of disbursed subsidies has not moved in a month.
The ministry says that this year, for the first time, funds are being paid out as soon as applications are received and processed, rather than waiting for the public call to close. A new obligation also applies: under changes to the rulebook that took effect in late February, subsidy recipients must justify the money they received with receipts for the agricultural inputs they bought. Instructions for justifying funds for basic crop production incentives in 2026 are available on the ePodsticaji portal and on the website of the Directorate for Agrarian Payments.
Applications are submitted exclusively online, through the eAgrar system. Only registered farms with active status in the Register of Agricultural Holdings are eligible for the incentives.
Seed subsidy still has no payment date
The September 21 statement makes no mention of the 17,000 dinar per farm subsidy for purchased seed, which by the ministry’s own calendar was due in September and October. The Alliance of Agrarian Associations of Vojvodina said on September 18 that it had gotten no answer from Agriculture Minister Dragan Glamocic on when that payment would arrive, as we reported at the time.
Farmers now have confirmation that crop production incentives are moving, but with no new word on a deadline for the seed subsidy, they remain stuck in the same uncertainty as a month ago.
