Is passive income a solution for small agriculturists?

Primary agricultural production has been recording great losses in the past year due to the climate change. That requires additional investments in equipment, such as anti-hail nets or irrigation systems, in a situation in which not even a return on the investment can be made. This affects small agriculturists the most, so we are also witnessing their abandoning this job.

Is there a solution after all? The speakers at the panel “The Future of Sustainable Agriculture and Investments” within the event “Building a Sustainable Future: Connecting Agriculturists and Investors Through Innovations” at the Science-Technology Park Belgrade tried to answer this question.

As Ferenc Smit from KWS Srbija pointed out, the traditional understanding of agriculture in Serbia is still hampering the introduction of innovations, but we should be open to them, because the solution lies in them, such as the one offered by Treesury – collective investments in a hazelnut plantation by purchasing tokens, which eKapija has written about. He added that investments were necessary in order to achieve sustainable production.

– Innovations mean something to small and medium producers, especially the kind that enables them to invest in a way that they would never have been able to do on their own – said Smit.

One of the ideas that has crystallized as a solution is making passive income. As Rade Rakocevic, the owner and CEO of Senzal Capital, pointed out, passive income is in fact a democratization of investments.

– Investing in agriculture, especially agri-tech, sounds exciting. It is especially useful when small investors can reunite and avoid the mediators. It is important for the yield to be as certain as possible, and for the risk to be as low as possible – says Rakocevic.

The CEO of Treesury, Jovan Paunovic, pointed out that the idea behind that platform was precisely to be accessible to the common citizen, so that everybody could invest and realize passive income. It could be small agriculturists, but, as the interest has shown, also investors in cryptocurrencies, entrepreneurs that want to diversify their portfolios, corporate managers.

The speakers also mentioned the banks and the fact that many of them did not want to finance agriculturists, due to uncertainty, but also the insufficiently valid information.

– What artificial intelligence and data analysis bring is precisely an insight into potential outcomes, and with that, greater security as well. Predictability and reliability can be reached through digital technologies – pointed out Vladimir Crnojevic, the director of the BioSense Institute.

Another way to fight the climate change, so that agriculturists don’t lose their income, is the possibility of investing worldwide in various climate areas.

– That is something that our company strives for, that you can invest, just like in the hazelnut planation, in other cultures as well, throughout the world, in different meridians. You thereby realize passive income while at the same time transforming the market and diversifying your production – said Paunovic.

He added that it divided the resources, but also solved the problems of labor force and the availability of quality raw materials. At the same time, small and medium agriculturists acquire a better position in the market.

The Science-Technology Park Belgrade hosted the event “Building a Sustainable Future: Connecting Agriculturists and Investors Through Innovations”, which gathered representatives of the economy, science, investors and development organizations. The aim of the event is to present models which, with the help of innovations and new technologies, can upgrade the production, facilitate access to investments and achieve sustainable development of agriculture.

The results of the innovative project financed by the Innovation Fund from the EU Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance and the budget of the Republic of Serbia, from the part belonging to the Ministry of Science, Technological Development and Innovation, were presented at the event.

Aleksandra Kekic

Treesury d.o.o. Beograd

KWS Srbija d.o.o. Bečej

Senzal Capital d.o.o. Beograd

BioSense Novi Sad

Naučno-tehnološki park Beograd

Treesury

KWS Srbija

Senzal Capital

BioSense Institute

Science Technology Park Belgrade

STP Belgrade

Jovan Paunović

Rade Rakočević

Vladimir Crnojević

Ferenc Šmit

The Future of Sustainable Agriculture and Investments

Building a Sustainable Future Connecting Agriculturists and Investors Through Innovations

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