Purić Sveto, Ph.D

The Аgriculture as a Business and the Аgriculture as a Way of Life

Summary

If we are looking for the benefit of it, than it's impossible to separate agriculture as a business from agriculture as a way of life. If we separate those two, then it is questionable what would left from both of it. If we not put together those two then national food securities is at risk, which brings us to the risk of national security at general.

Good experiences of others are helpful and good, but our own are even better and more useful. Biggest benefit for human body comes from the diet based on the food that is produced at the area where the certain individual habitats. Other food products could be considered, not only expensive, but also as a necessary evil on the menu. Those products are also additional ballast to the balance of payments, which makes deficit instead of surpluses. And where is the pleasure of dealing with agriculture and food production.

Incompatibility of the time of production and working period, seasonal nature of agricultural production, slow turnover of capital and other factors are the serious reason for this branch to be the subject of the special attention and assistance from the state, and not an economy branch that is subject of constant neglecting.

Key words: agriculture, agriculture as a business, assistance from the state,  time of production, nature of agricultural production, slow turnover of capital