Competence of the Ministry:
The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management performs state administration tasks related to:

- strategy and policy of development of agriculture and food industry; analysis of the production and market of agricultural products;
- balances of agricultural food products and commodity reserve system of basic agricultural food products;
- regulation of the common market, measures of market - price policy, structural policy and land policy in agriculture;
- measures of incentives for the improvement of agricultural production;
- proposing systemic solutions and measures for protection of imports of agricultural and food products;
- protection and use of agricultural land;
- production of agricultural inputs for the agricultural and food industry, production and trade of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, ethanol, tobacco and tobacco and food products;
- quality control of agricultural products and food products, wine, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, fruit juices, concentrated fruit juices, fruit nectars, fruit juices in powder, mineral waters, ethanol, tobacco and tobacco products in internal and external traffic;
- rural development;
- agricultural cooperatives;
- professional agricultural services;
- a system of market information in agriculture;
- production, certification and quality control of seed and planting material;
- recognition and protection of plant varieties and breeds of domestic animals;
- conservation and sustainable use of plant and animal genetic resources for food and agriculture;
- creation of conditions for access and realization of projects from the scope of the ministry financed from the funds of the EU pre-accession funds, donations and other forms of development assistance;
- inspection in the field of agriculture.

Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Water Management performs state administration tasks related to:
- management of agricultural land in state ownership;
- Establishment and management of the information system on agricultural land in the Republic of Serbia;
- allocation of funds for carrying out works and monitoring of the realization of the annual program of protection, arrangement and use of agricultural land in the Republic of Serbia;
- monitoring the development of the Agricultural Fund of the Republic of Serbia and its realization;
- keeping a register of agricultural bases of local self-government units, as well as other tasks determined by law. monitoring the development of the Agricultural Fund of the Republic of Serbia and its realization;
- keeping a register of agricultural bases of local self-government units, as well as other tasks determined by law.
- monitoring the development of the Agricultural Fund of the Republic of Serbia and its realization;
- keeping a register of agricultural bases of local self-government units, as well as other tasks determined by law.