Economy and Climate of Serbia

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• The architecture, publishing industries, advertising, video, and computer media industries are the most important sectors of the Serbian economy. 96% of enterprises in Serbia are micro-businesses with 1-10 employees. The most profitable industries were music industry and motion picture and video production. Agro-food sector makes one of the major components of the Serbian economy in terms of turnover, number of SMEs and persons employed. Farming and mining remain among the most important occupation in Serbia. Most workers are employed in manufacturing, which is concentrated in northern industrial zones. Manufactures include steel, iron, tranport vehicles and plastics.

  Wheat, corn, sugar beets, herbs, sunflower and flax are the chief crops grown in the fertile plains of Vojvodina province where there are the most productive agricultural areas.

  Serbia proper has extensive vineyards and is one of Europe's major regions for fruit growing (notably raspberries and plums) and vegetables. Serbia is the leading country exporter of raspberries in the world /In 2009 Serbia exported 63.300 tons of the best quality raspberries/.

  Serbia's mineral wealth includes coal and lignite, copper, gold, antimony, marble and millstone. Kosovo and Metohija is the poorest and least developed region although it does have huge coal and ore deposits. By the volume and quality of its lead-zink ore deposits, the Kosovo District ranks among the richest one not only in Serbia, but in the entire Europe.

  The political turmoil of the 1990s greatly exacerbated Serbia's already severe economic problems....but we are optimistic and working hard !

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• In the recent years, creative professional services, namely architectural services, design and advertising, became leaders in creative production as well as promoters of innovative ideas and practices. The creative professional services are flexible, high-quality and export-oriented part of Serbian creative sector. Architecture, design industry and domestic advertising production are composed of a high number of smaller agencies, studios and enterprises that specialize in specific market segments and attractive services.
• The Serbian climate varies between moderate continental climate in the north, with cold winters, and hot, humid summers and well distributed rainfall patterns, and a more Adriatic climate in the south with hot, dry summers and autumns and relatively cold winters with heavy inland snowfall. Location of river ravines and plains in the northern area of the country enable occasional deep southward protrusion of polar air masses on winters, while hot Saharan air often intrudes over the Mediterranean Sea on summers. Average annual air temperature for the period 1961-1990 for the area with the altitude of up to 300 m amounts to 10.9 °C. The areas with the altitudes of 300 to 500 m have average annual temperature of around 10.0 °C, and over 1000 m of altitude around 6.0 °C.