food sector

Agro and food market performance in 2025 — Growth under pressure

Agriculture and the food sector in Serbia in 2025 operated in a context of both opportunity and constraint. The sector demonstrated resilience during a year of economic uncertainty, but its performance highlighted longstanding structural issues that require targeted policy action. From an output perspective, traditional crops — cereals, oilseeds, fruits and vegetables — recorded mixed results. Weather variability and input cost inflation (fertilizers, energy and logistics) suppressed yields in some regions, even as export prices remained relatively elevated on global…