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Abstract
Since 2007 input subsidies given out by the government in support to field crop and
vegetable production has had the greatest share in the agricultural budget of Serbia. The
principal goal of input subsidy programs, as measures of agricultural support, is primarily
the promotion of productivity and competitiveness of field crop production. The employment
of optimal agricultural practices stimulated an increase in the use of mineral fertilizers,
declared seeds, etc. At the same time these measures were noted to raise both output and
quality of agricultural products including farmers’ income. The implementation and
importance of these measures has so far not been attracting sufficient attention and
therefore the objective of the study was to analyze the effects of input subsidies on the
economic position of production of some major field crops (wheat, corn, sunflower,
soybean, sugar beet) on family farms owning 6-20 hectares of arable land and focused on
field crop production in 2007-2011 in the plain regions of Serbia.