“State to prop up agriculture sector with EUR 150mn”

Subsidies are all very well provided they do what they are supposed to do which is to put Serbia on the path of becoming one of the world's global producers and suppliers of food and to reduce unemployment in this country.
However, just dishing out cash to farmers and cutting their taxes will not make them better and more efficient farmers, just more likely to be better Nikolic, Vucic and Dacic voters. It also makes farmers dependent on subsidies, like junkies are dependent on their choice of drugs.
Money needs to be spend on technologies that are needed in the 21st century as well as on education on future farm managers. Look at The Netherlands, the most densely populated country in the world but which has managed to become the largest producer and exporter of flowers, onions, tomatoes and livestock (chickens) in the world. (I was in Greece this summer where Dutch tomatoes are half the price of Greek tomatoes.)
I don't trust this approach of giving subsidies to farmers because I have seen the same approach in Greece turn into a corrupted system whereby farmers cheat quotas in order to buy BMW's and Mercedes' and politicians riding on the wave of corruption in order to buy votes and fill their pockets. Lets hope I am wrong.

Subsidies are all very well provided they do what they are supposed to do which is to put Serbia on the path of becoming one of the world's global producers and suppliers of food and to reduce unemployment in this country.
However, just dishing out cash to farmers and cutting their taxes will not make them better and more efficient farmers, just more likely to be better Nikolic, Vucic and Dacic voters. It also makes farmers dependent on subsidies, like junkies are dependent on their choice of drugs.
Money needs to be spend on technologies that are needed in the 21st century as well as on education on future farm managers. Look at The Netherlands, the most densely populated country in the world but which has managed to become the largest producer and exporter of flowers, onions, tomatoes and livestock (chickens) in the world. (I was in Greece this summer where Dutch tomatoes are half the price of Greek tomatoes.)
I don't trust this approach of giving subsidies to farmers because I have seen the same approach in Greece turn into a corrupted system whereby farmers cheat quotas in order to buy BMW's and Mercedes' and politicians riding on the wave of corruption in order to buy votes and fill their pockets. Lets hope I am wrong.