A 10-YEARS ANALYSIS OF GRAPE PRODUCTION IN SERBIA

Abstract

Grapes and grape wine have played an important part in Serbian history, stretching back for thousands of years. Unfortunately, during the last decade the Republic of Serbia had devastating results in regard to the total production of grape. Statistics shown on Statista,astatistic portalshows the global leading grape producing countries in 2016/2017. For that period,China is ranked first and the United Statesfifth in grape production. Serbia is not in the top-ten and the possible reason forthiscan betheshrinking of harvested areas during the last decade. This paper presents an analysis of grape production in the Republic of Serbia, using the index comparison method, i.e. using the statistical data on previous years, comparing them with the data on 2017. The data available on the website of the FAOSTAT statistical database and the Statistical Office of the Republic of Serbia (RZS) were used for the comparison and analysis. The analysis of the data on the period from 2007 to 2017 showed that the total production of grapes and harvesting area was diminishing as the time went on. The biggest harvested area was measured in 2007 and it was 59,068 ha. On the other hand, the harvested area in 2017 was 21,201 ha. The best results in grape production were achieved in 2009. In comparison to 2017, the Republic of Serbia had bigger production of grapes in 2009 by 160%. Theworst results were made in 2014 and the production was around 26% lower than the production in 2017. In the last few years, the harvested area has stopped diminishing and onecan see a little improvement in the production