There will be no big surprises in the spring sowing compared to previous years, when the costs that farmers expect are at stake.
There is more than a month left until sowing, so farmers are buying or have already bought raw materials. It has become a practice that they need more money for each new sowing, about ten percent compared to last year, and in that respect there will be no changes this spring either. The only exception may be in terms of seed supply, because farmers say that not all varieties of corn are available, but that there are substitutes.
According to the calculations of the Agrarian Union of Serbia, sowing will be ten percent more expensive than last year.
Sowing corn, which should take up the most arable land, approximately one million hectares, will cost farmers between 270 euros and 300 per morning. That price includes the price of seeds, then the first chemicals, artificial fertilizers and fuel – Nenad Manic from the Agrarian Union of Serbia states for “Dnevnik”. – Soybean sowing will cost, again depending on the seeds, between 230 euros and 270 euros. In addition to seeds, this account also includes protective agents, artificial fertilizers and fuel. Whoever sows sunflowers, will need the least money, ten percent less money compared to sowing soybeans.
Manic underlines that the price of rent, which varies from place to place, was not included in any sowing price. He says that farmers who lease state-owned arable land will be the cheapest, because the lease of state-owned land costs only 200 euros, while in some parts of the province, tenants need as much as 500 euros per hectare to cultivate land in private estates.
In terms of seeds, our interlocutor says that there is enough of it, especially domestic, which, according to Manic, is better, because it is more resistant to the whims of the local weather conditions, Dnevnik reports.
