Serbian farmers irrigate very little land

According to the latest figures, 52,236 hectares of farm land were under irrigation and that is 0.4 percent less than a year earlier. Most of the irrigated areas are ploughed fields with some water going to orchards.

Serbia has a total area of farmland of just under 3.5 million hectares. Farmers used a total of 92,574 cubic meters of water for irrigation, a third more than a year earlier, most of it from rivers and streams, as well as underground waters, lages and reservoirs, the RZS said.