EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC-RESEARCH AND CONSULTING WORK IN AGRICULTURE OF SERBIA

Serbia has small number of producers which have encircled production system (from primary production to processing), which dobusiness successful, introduce marketing strategy and production standards, registered their products' mark of origin, succeed to export onEU market, use internet or has its own internet domain, etc. For creation of such, competitive and modern agricultural producer, there isnecessity for production specialization, any kind of cooperation and better organization. In same time, there is more space for bigger financialsupport of state, as expert and consultative support „created“ through strong partnership between public and private sector, i.e. tough andconstructive cooperation of state and farmers sector, like as institutions of education, science, research and consultative work.In the paper was given review of number and territorial dispersion of educational institutions, current scientific-research work andconsultative functions in agriculture in Serbia, than was pointed out main problems in their functioning and previous work and also proposedconcrete suggestions for overcoming of existing limitations, as for modernization /reorganization of those institutions, in a way to be moreuseful for agricultural producers.