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Abstract
In the paper, the tendencies in the development of wheat and corn production in the time
period from 1976 to 2010 are researched, with a focus on the cluster analysis of the
market production of these products per districts in Serbia in 2009. On the basis of more
important available land capacities, the volume of production and scope of economic
development, the I-distance method is used to rank the districts. The ranking of the districts
according to the analysed characteristics is conducted on the basis of the median
value of data per municipalities. For each of the mentioned groups of characteristics, the
I-distance is used to rank the districts from 1 to 25, Rank 1 being the best and Rank 25
the worst. The similarities of the districts according to the analysed characteristics are
accounted for by a complete link method of a hierarchical cluster analysis and the results
are represented by a dendrogram and a cartogram.
Apart from favourable conditions (land, climate, and so on), producers’ traditional habits
have to the greatest extent had an impact on the unjustifiably high presence of wheat and
corn in the structure of crop production. That, to a great extent, has had an influence on
the high marketability of the production of wheat and corn in Serbia as well.