Bečej

Municipality of Bečej

Becej is a town and municipality in the South Backa District in Vojvodina, Serbia. It includes the town of Becej and the following villages: Backo Gradiste, Backo Petrovo Selo, Milesevo, Radicevic. It is positioned on the crossroad of train, river and road traffic.

TOP 5 REASONS TO INVEST IN BEČEJ

• Great geographical position: centrally located in Vojvodina; E75 highway proximity
• Investment-ready industrial zones
• Direct access to international waterway - River Tisza
• Admin & operational local municipality support
• Competitive workforce - Diverse sector profiles

Infrastructure in Bečej

ROADS

Regional road network: 79 km

- Becej-Novi Sad

- Becej-Zrenjanin

- Becej-Vrbas

- Becej-Backa Topola

- Becej-Senta

Local road network: 33 km

- Becej-Radicevic

- Becej-Novi Becej

- Becej-Milesevo

WATERWAY

River Tisa lenght: 83 km

- Port in Novi Sad distance 50 km

Canal network for drainage: 245 km

- Irrigation/drainage system network

SEWAGE

Sewage system: 45%

Sewage network: 44 km

Energy potential in Bečej

GAS

• Municipality is gasified: 90%
• Local pipeline lenght: 205 km
• Presure of main pipeline 6 bar
• Presure of local pipeline 1 bar – 60 km length

GEOTHERMAL

ELECTRICITY

• No. of distribution substitusions: 235
• Total power (kVA): 248,200
• Total network length (km): 536
• Available capacities (kVA): 250,000

BIOMASS

• Total land: 48, 659 ha
• Agricultural land: 41, 285 ha
• Arable land: 39, 962 ha
• Most common crops: maize (65%), wheat (15%), sugar beet (7%), alfaalfa (5%), sunflower (3%), other (5%)

WIND

Average speed 42 m/s at 50 m

SOLAR

Population, education and labor cost in Bečej

Number of inhabitants 37,351

Employed (2020) 8,415

Unemployed (July 2021) 1,496

Labor cost structure

Average salary in Bečej (Dec, 2020)

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

Key sectors in Bečej

Agribusiness

Enduring tradition in good results

• Long-standing tradition & processing expertise
• More than 60% of population is engaged in agriculture
• 2,814 registered agricultural producers
• Existence of 16 agricultural cooperatives
• Easy access to abundant resource base for the processing industry
• Storage capacities: silos- 160,000 t, on-floor storage- 50,000 t

Agricultural land 42,000 ha:

• Cereals- Wheat, Maize, Barley, Ouats, Rye
• Fuit - Apricots, Plums, Cherries, Apples, Pears
• Vegetable-Peas, Onion, Paprika, Cabbage&Kale...
• Industrial crops - Soy, Sunflower, Sugar beet
• Roughage - Alfalfa, Maize for silage, Clover

Meat&Dairy

Excellent conditions for further development

• 40 registered livestock farms
• 60 years long tradition in livestock breeding
• Pastures- 487 ha
• Great resource base
• Well established companies: PIK Becej, Agroprodukt Sinkovic

Livestock count:

• Cattle 7,421
• Pigs 74,118
• Milking Cows 3,043
• Poultry 311,856

Tourism

Spa center development project

• Tradition in sporting-recreational tourism
• Developed hunting tourism, hunting ground spreading over 30,000 ha
• Number of hunting associations: Becej, Zec, Backo Gradiste
• Big and small game- roe, rabbit, pheasants, partridge
• Birdwatching
• Geothermal resources- potential for development of spa center, planned area of 7.8 ha (Detailed regulation plan was adopted)

Accommodation capacities 6 units:

• Number of beds 360
• Average annual visits
• Overnight 35.000

Investment opportunities:

- Accommodation capacities- SPA center development

Top 10 Employers in Becej

Edited on 12/23/2021

Greenfield locations in Bečej

Location 1

Industrial Zone

Infrastructure: gas, electricity, phone cable and road are nearby 100 meters; water and sewege 100 meters away

Parcele 1 size: 8 ha 13a 21m²

Parcele 2 size: 79a 2m²

Parcele 3 size: 57ha 99a 91m

Ownership: Municipal

For sale

Edited on 12/23/2021

Brownfield Locations in Bečej

Location 1

8. OKTOBAR

Land size: 20,000m²

Facilities: 2,150 m² + 900 m² + 900 m² + 600 m² + 2,200 m² + 400 m²

Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage, optical cable

Ownership: Bankruptcy

For sale

Location 2

CBA Supermarket

Land size: 8,766 m2

Facilities: 3,296 m2 total (2,317 m2 + 231 m2 + 135 m2 + 609 m2 + 212 m2 + 220 m2)

Infrastructure: electricity, water, gas, sewage

Ownership: Private

For sale

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

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