The agro-food sector is the most important single sector in the Serbian economy. Primary production from agriculture accounted for approximately 16.6% of GDP in 2005. Thus the relative importance of agriculture decreased over the period from 1995 to 2005. But despite this downswing the share of primary production in agriculture is compared to the EU-25 (1.6% in 2005) and also compared to neighbouring countries n the Western Balkans still very high. In absolute figures the GDP in agriculture increased over the same period to approximately € 3.2 billion in 2005. If the food and beverage processing activities associated with agriculture are added to primary production, agriculture, in this wider sense, is the largest single sector of the economy, with 25 % of GDP.