ECONOMICS OF SERBIAN AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION AND HOUSEHOLD OPTIMIZATION

Numerous external and internal factors in the last 20 years have contributed to the change in the environment in which family farms operate. Agricultural production in Serbia takes place mainly on small family farms which are characterized by low capacity lack of labor and financial resources. The Toplica district includes four municipalities (Prokuplje Blace Zitoradja and Kursumlija) has 16312 farms of which 99% are focused on agricultural production understandably with different production lines.The existence of the need for constant review of the achieved results in agricultural production is a consequence among other things of its dependence on the progress of other scientific fields. The wide choice of possible technical technological and organizational solutions as much as it represents a favorable circumstance so much contributes to the complexity of the problem faced by the production organizer. In order to gain insight into the results of agricultural production on family farms a survey was conducted on 60 farms. The research includes data on production capacities labor force facilities mechanization production structure production costs and revenues.