- Municipality of Bački Petrovac
- Logistics
- Energy potential
- Infrastructure
- Population education labor cost
- Key sectors
- Top 10 employers
- Greenfield
- Brownfield and greenfield locations
- Construction procedures
- Municipality incentives
- Success stories
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Municipality of Bački Petrovac
Backi Petrovac is a town and municipality in the South Backa District of Vojvodina, Serbia. Backi Petrovac municipality includes the town of Backi Petrovac and the following villages: Glozan (Slovak: Hlozany), Kulpin and Maglic. The municipality has a population of 12,418 inhabitants.

TOP 5 REASONS TO INVEST IN BAČKI PETROVAC
- Quality of agricultural land
- Abundant geothermal resources & SPA development potentials
- Longstanding tradition & expertise in metal processing industry
- Industrial Park
- EU border proximity – CRO, HUN - Good transport links to the region
Bački Petrovac Logistics
Total Area: 158 km²
Distance from borders:
- HUN - 120 km
- CRO - 30 km
- ROM - 229 km
- BUL - 415 km
- B&H - 145 km
Distance from highway:
- E-75 - 25 km
- E-70 - 52 km
Distance from airport:
- Belgrade - 102 km
- Osijek (Croatia) - 92 km
- Temisoara - 270 km

Energy potential in Bački Petrovac
GAS
- Municipality is gasified: 100%
- Local pipeline lenght: 167 km
- Presure of main pipeline 6-12 bar
- Presure of local pipeline 1-3 bar
GEOTHERMAL
24.8 °C temperature | at 403 m |
20.5 °C temperature | at 237 m |
15.4 °C temperature | at 83 m |
14.7 °C temperature | at 85 m |
14.8 °C temperature | at 239 m |
ELECTRICITY
- No. of distribution substitusions: 100
- Total power (kVA): 41,530
- Total network length (km): 63
- Available capacities (kVA) 35/10 kV): 3,000
BIOMASS
- Total land: 15,841 ha
- Agricultural land: 14,079 ha
- Arable land: 13,861 ha
- Most common crops: maize, soy
WIND
Average speed 3.5-4 m/s at 50 m
SOLAR
Insolation 267 days p.a. hrs | 2,000 hrs |
Infrastructure in Bački Petrovac
ROADS
Regional road network: 14.6 km
- Odzaci - Novi Sad
Local road network: 22 km
- Glozan-Backi Petrovac
- Backi Petrovac-Kulpin
- Glozan
- Maglic
WATERWAY
River Danube length: 3.6 km
- Port in Novi Sad distance 30 km
Canal network within DTD system: 3.6 km
- Karavukovo-B Petrovac-Novi Sad
Irrigation system network: 2,523 ha
Drainage system network: 12,029 ha
RAILWAY
Railway network length
Glozan-Backi Petrovac-Maglic (Sombor-Novi Sad): 14 km
Axial pressure: 22.5 t
SEWAGE
Sewage system: 40%
Sewage network: 97 km
Population, education and labor cost in Bački Petrovac
Number of inhabitants 13,418
Employed (2020) 4,475
Unemployed (July, 2021) 361
Labor cost structure
Average salary in Bački Petrovac (Dec, 2020)
NET Salary | 480 | |
Personal Income Tax | 10% | 48 |
Contributions (Emploeyee) | 19,9% | 126 |
GROSS Salary | 636 | |
Contributions (Employer) | 17,15% | 106 |
TOTAL Cost | 742 |
From July 1st, 2014 the employers have the right for refund on the paid personal income tax & socal insurance contributions:
- 65% refund for employing 1-9 workers
- 70% refund for employing 10-99 workers
- 75% refund for employing 100+ workers
Education
High Schools
School | Profile | #students | #graduates |
---|---|---|---|
Gymnasium | General | 295 | 86 |
Gymnasium | Computers and IT | ||
Gymnasium | Educational profile chef |
Higher Education Studies
Program | #students |
---|---|
Health and social work | 60 |
Only 25 km to Novi Sad where all high school profiles and universities are available.
High school profiles and faculties attended by students from Backi Petrovac: Medical, Technical, Agriculture,Electro-Technical, Economics, Gymnasium
Key sectors in Bački Petrovac

Agribusiness
Regional agro-industrial center
- Area suitable for agricultural production, both farming & livestock breeding
- Agricultural production equally developed in all 4 municipal settlements
- Majority of agricultural land in individual farmers ownership: Farmers – 13,221 ha, Legal entities and entrepreneurs – 2,828 ha
- 2,759 ha of state agricultural land available for lease according to priority rights – infrastructure ownership (1,034 ha), livestock breeding (1,724 ha)
- 15 registered companies producing – chemical products for crop protection, seeds, animal feed, cereal crops, fruit and nuts production and processing, vegetable growing, oilseeds production, livestock (poultry, cattle, pigs), sheep, dairy production
- 1,237 active individual agricultural farms
- 5 agricultural cooperatives – cereal, oilseeds production, livestock breeding, meat processing, industrial pepper
- Storage capacities - 2 cold storage facilities, 120 greenhouses, 5 hothouses, 1,117 warehousing facilities for agricultural equipment, 727 corn-storage tanks, 32 barns , 33 silos
Agribusiness – available resources
Cereals - 4,583 ha
maize – 3,405, wheat – 465, barley – 180, oat – 2.6, cereal seeds – 523 (ha)
Industrial crops - 5,123 ha
sugar beet – 567, soy – 4,458, sunflower – 69, oilseed – 1.3, hemp - 2.6, industrial crop seeds – 2.3, broomcorn – 12, tobacco – 8.7 (ha)
Roughage - 185 ha
alfalfa- 158, clover – 21, meadows – 3, pastures – 1.3 (ha)
Herbs 13 ha
Vegetables - 904 ha
potato – 413, pepper – 288, carrot – 14, onion – 27, onion seed -7.8, root vegetables – 11.5, sweet corn – 84, tomato – 6, cucumbers - 3, cabbage – 2, other (ha)
Fruits - 1,358 ha
apples – 6.5, pears – 3.5, peaches - 4, apricots - 2, cherries -0.2, plums - 1, nuts - 5, raspberries – 3.3, strawberries – 2.3, grapes – 8.5 (ha)
Livestock count
- Cattle 1,572
- Sheep, goats 340
- Pigs 2,057
- Poultry 460,225
- Beehives 981
- Fish 2.000
- Other 810
3 cattle farms – 2 milk production
2 pig farms
2 egg production farms
Meat processing – mainly traditional salami production with geographical origin declaration within individual farms – 60 t annual production – insufficient to satisfy the demand

Tourism
Hotel development opportunity
- Hunting, fishing - diversity of small game (rabbit, pheasant, weasels, owls, eagle), a number of hunting associations
- Rich tourist offer – river Danube, historic sites, castle, museums, fishponds, ethno ranches, aqua park, etc.
- Various events (fairs, exhibitions, programs, conferences, etc.) all year round attracting tourists from different countries – 25,000
- Geothermal resources – potential for development of spa centers - study of hydrothermal resources and thermo-mineral waters needed for determining their capacity, quality for rational and profitable usage
- Increasing trend of the number of overnight stays
- Every year number of tourist visits is raising
Accommodation capatities
- Rooms, apartments 72 beds
- 3 Lodging 84 beds
Overnight stays
in 2012 214
in 2013 1,988
in 2014 2.00
Investment opportunities:
- Accommodation capacities – HOTEL development
Top 10 Employers in Bački Petrovac
Company | Sector | Country | #Employees |
---|---|---|---|
PEPSICO INC. | Agribusiness | SAD | 400 |
DOO MAGLIC | Agribusiness | Serbia | 147 |
SZR SIJAKOVIC | Dairy | Serbia | 137 |
LOUIS BLOCKX NV | Packaging | Belgium | 120 |
AQUAPARK PETROLAND | Tourism | Slovakia | 100 |
VOJMEDICAL DOO | Medical equipment | Italy | 100 |
DOO RAM | Brooms and brushes | Serbia | 88 |
DOO AGROPLOD GLOZAN | Agribusiness | Serbia | 84 |
AGROGRNJA | Agribusiness | Serbia | 67 |
DOO DEM | Agribusiness | Serbia | 54 |
Greenfield locations in Bački Petrovac
Location 1
Industrial Zone
Land size: 143 ha
Ownership: 45 ha 83 a 46m² municipal
For sale
Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas

Brownfield Locations in Bački Petrovac
Location 1
Business Park
Land size: 12.5 ha
Brownfield facilities: 30 (100-3,000 sqm)
Ownership: private
For sale and lease
The following services are available for Business Park members:
Security with video surveillance, Maintenance yard, Hydrant network, Meeting hall, Internet, HR services, Accounting and legal services, Forklift, etc.

Sewage system under construction
Distance from Novi Sad - 20 km
Distance from Croatian border - 20 km
Distance from highway – 20 km
Access to 2 Danube ports in 20 km radius
Distance to Belgrade airport – 90 km
Distance to railway – 2 km
Upon receiving the investor’s request
the consolidated construction procedures are conducted in the following phases:
- Issuing the location conditions for the cadastre parcel suitable for construction – from the day of obtaining all special conditions, permits and other documents --> no later than 5 working days
- Issuing the construction permit – from the day of the submission of the request --> no later than 5 working days
Upon receiving the application:
Based on registering the construction work,issuing the verification for receiving the application without delay, provided that the complete documentation has been submitted.
- Registering the construction works to receive acceptance/rejection --> 5 working days
- Subsequently, submitting the request for infrastructure installations --> 3 working days
Issuing the occupancy permit, upon receiving the submission of the request --> no later than 5 working days
Issuing the final approval upon receiving the submission of the request --> no later than 5 working days
In total: 28 working days
Municipal Incentives
Land Development Fees Discount
*20% reduction – for investment value over € 500,000 (without VAT) – for construction of the facility that uses RES for heating/electricity production (min capacity 50 kW)
- In case investor registered in Backi Petrovac Municipality is already doing business for 5 years in continuity and is expanding his production capacity while maintaining the same number of employees (no less than 10) during the period of next 3 years, or is creating 3/2 new jobs in case the number of employees is up to 5/6-9 – for the first facility, and 3 additional jobs for every other facility
30% Land Development Fee
Special offer for lupm-sum paymants or in 36 monthly instaliments
Success Stories in Bački Petrovac

Contact us
Municipality Office
Dusko Lukac - Department of Economy, Urbanism, Communal, Housing and Inspection Affairs
Phone: +381 62 88 528 25
Email: privreda@backipetrovac.rs
Ondrej Bovdis – Head of the Department of Economy, Planning, Housing and Communal Inspection Activities
Phone: +381 63 514 300
Email: privreda@backipetrovac.rs