Serbia is losing another Kosovo” over 1,200 villages to extinction

Vrudnik, Serbia, November 17th Serbian villages are in “death”. This is because of even 86 percent of the population's dramatic decline, until about 1,200 are in the total extinction phase.

And their size is close to the entire territory of Kosovo, it has been warned Friday at the “Web for Europe” in Vrednik, Koha.net reports.

Besides the negative demographic trend, one of the main problems of present-day villages is the poor economic situation and the fragmentation of wealth, as well as the growing number of elderly residents. But the biggest problems have been observed in the mountain regions”, said Dragan Shkoric, chairman of the Council for Villages at the Serbian Academy of Sciences.

Presenting the alarming data, Shkoric has said it is the villagers themselves who are abandoning villages, where their livelihood depends on working in nuts.

For this reason, there are now more than 50,000 empty houses in Serbia and at least three times as many homes that are out of use of”, the Shrik academic has said about the SANU study of the destruction of Serb villages.

He has made it known that 4,709 settlements, even 1,200, are in the extinction because each of these villages has fewer than 100 inhabitants, as 86 percent of the villages are even facing a decline in the population. There are no more than 2,000 villages in postal services, about 500 do not have asphalted roads and are cut off from the world until there are no children's nests in 230, no elementary schools, and only one student follows lessons in 173 schools.

The village potential in the field alone is $24 billion by 2040”, Shkorich said, adding: “Serbia has no progress without villages”.