Co-Operatives as an Element of Entrepreneurship Development in Serbian Agriculture

Jeločnik, Marko and Kovačević, Vlado and Subić, Jonel (2017) Co-Operatives as an Element of Entrepreneurship Development in Serbian Agriculture. In: Proceedings “Development of entrepreneurship: Horizons of growth”, International scientific and practical conference. Stavropol State Agrarian University, Stavropol, pp. 11-22. ISBN 978-5-9500517-5-3

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Abstract

Agriculture is considered as strategic sector of the Serbian economy. One of its basic characteristics is large number of agricultural holdings employing a large share of labour contingent, but mainly limited by low economic size (ability to gain an income) and small and fragmentized estates, that in the end affects a lack of competitiveness of individual producers at regional and global market. The main goal of this paper is to present the state of agricultural co-operatives in Serbia and to analyze the potential of co-operatives as a driving force for development of the Serbian agriculture and rural areas. Research was based on desktop research, supported by methods of analysis and synthesis, primarily leaning on secondary data gained from national statistical organization and public institutions. Despite the presence of several issues that co-operatives in Serbia are currently facing with, establishing of proper legal, economical and social ambient will enable co-operatives to take a role of legal entities more preferable than many SMEs involved in development of national agriculture and rural areas.

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