Non-repayable funding for attached machinery and equipment from the Ministry of Agriculture in 2015

The Rulebook on Incentives to Support Investments in Primary Agricultural Production (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia,” No. 105/14 of 03.10.2014) defines the grants that may be obtained for:

Primary crop production:  grain, industrial crops, aromatic and medicinal plants, vegetables, fruit, grapes, flowers.

Primary livestock productionmilk production (cow’s and goat’s), meat production (fattening cattle, cow-calf production, raising piglets for fattening, raising sheep and poultry for meat), production of food fish, production of honey and other bee products.

  For more information about grants for crop production, see the following links:
1. Purchase of new machinery and irrigation equipment;
2. Purchase of new machinery, equipment and materials for protection against diseases, pests, weeds, hail, low and high temperatures;
3. Purchase of new attached machinery and equipment for sowing, planting and harvesting;

4. Purchase of new greenhouses and equipment for protected-area production;
5. Construction, expansion, reconstruction or renovation of cold-storage facilities and purchase of new equipment for cold-storage facilities;
6. Construction of new facilities for grain storage (silos and flat storage buildings) and purchase of new equipment for grain storage facilities;
7. Purchase of new equipment and machinery for preparing products for market;
  For details about grants intended for livestock farming, see the following links:
1. Investments in beekeeping;
2. Purchase of quality breeding stock;
3. Purchase of equipment and machinery for handling solid and liquid manure;
4. Purchase of equipment and machinery for preparing and distributing animal feed;
5. Purchase of equipment for housing animals;
6. Purchase of hoof-trimming equipment for cows;
7. Purchase of new equipment for fish farms;
8. Purchase of sheep-shearing equipment;
The right to incentives is granted to:

1) individual  – holder of a registered commercial family
agricultural holding;
2) entrepreneur;
3) legal entities: a company, an agricultural cooperative and a secondary school

The maximum eligibility threshold for applying for incentives is 50 hectares planted with a crop for which the equipment and machinery are planned to be used (the area under crops registered in the agricultural holdings register).
A person who has at least 200 cattle, or 1.000 goats, or 1.000 sheep, or 200 pigs, or 10.000 poultry per production cycle may submit an application for livestock incentives under these rules.

This condition does not apply to the purchase of machinery and equipment for handling liquid and solid manure.

The maximum total amount of incentives per applicant is 2.000.000 to 5.000.000 dinars when it comes to storage facilities and cold-storage facilities..
The application for incentives must be submitted  To the Directorate for Agrarian Payments during the period from  From 1. May to 15. October of the current year.
The Directorate for Agrarian Payments is located at: Bulevar kralja Aleksandra 84, 11050 Belgrade.

In accordance with the Rulebook on Incentives to Support Investments in Primary Agricultural Production, the Provincial Secretariat for Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry hereby informs those wishing to apply for funding from the Ministry of Agriculture and Environmental Protection of the Republic of Serbia that they must attach to their application a certificate from this Secretariat confirming that they did not receive incentive funds from the Secretariat in 2015 for the same purpose.

The certificate can be obtained any day at the Provincial Government building, from the Provincial Secretariat for Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry, Bulevar Mihajla Pupina 16, Novi Sad, from 08.00 to 16.00 o’clock, on the first floor in offices no. 42 and no. 44. The application form, available on site, must be completed beforehand. Individuals must bring their ID card, while legal entities’ authorized representatives must bring their ID card and company seal, as well as the tax identification number and legal entity registration number.

  For all additional information, contact the Secretariat for Agriculture, Water Management and Forestry at 021/487-4416 or 021/487-4186.      
 PRulebook and application form (download)
Confirmation from the Provincial Secretariat for Agriculture that the recipient has not received funding on the same basis from the Autonomous Province of Vojvodina—individual (download)
Confirmation from the Provincial Secretariat for Agriculture that the beneficiary has not received funding for the same purpose from the AP of Vojvodina—legal entity (download)