City of Sabac

City of Sabac – Department of Agriculture was established with the aim of improving production in our city for support to agricultural producers and their associations, keeping records of agricultural land, producers and machinery and implementation of agricultural development program.
The Department of Agriculture carries out the following tasks:
develops and implements the Development Strategy for Agriculture and Rural Areas of the City of Sabac, develops the Program for Support of Agricultural Policy and Rural Development Policy of the City of Sabac, grants incentives for drilling wells, grants reclaimers for the cow’s insemination, assigns incentives for the purchase of quality breeding sheep, goats and pigs, participates in the drafting of the public procurement plan, promotes the goat breedingthrough the city revolving fund, improves sheep breeding through the city revolving fund, improves the racial composition of the sheep / quality breeding rams, the city revolving fund, performs administrative tasks for the needs of the Commission for the assessment of damage from natural disasters, keeps records of cultivated and uncultivated areas of agricultural land as well as realized yields by culture, produces certificates of damage on the steep zones from the natural disaster of drought in 2003, creates a certificate on the use of incentive funds, determines the amount of compensation for changing the purpose of agricultural land, issues water conditions, issues water consent, issues a water permit, issues certificates of agriculture, improves the work of existing ones and establishes new associations in the field of agricultural production, improves the work of the existing ones and establishes new agricultural cooperatives, subsidizes sustainable land management, chemical analysis over the 5th class of land, organizes education of agricultural producers, organizes study tours and visits of farmers from various fields of agricultural production, fairs, farms and events in the state and other activities from the scope work of the Department.
Even 76, 13% of the total area of the city of Sabac is agricultural land. Arable land extends to 57,833 ha, pastures and meadows occupy 2,297 ha, and fishponds, ponds and reeds 351 ha.
In the territory of the city of Sabac, there are a total of 11,893 farms, of which 65% of the households are engaged in activities in the size of 1 to 10 ha, and the city of Sabac through the incentives further encourages the development of the agricultural processing industry.