Ministry of Rural Welfare (Serbia)

The Ministry of Rural Welfare (Serbian Cyrillic: Министарство за бригу о селу, romanized: Ministarstvo za brigu o selu) is a ministry in the Government of Serbia, created by a vote of the National Assembly of Serbia on 26 October 2020. Milan Krkobabić, the leader of the Party of United Pensioners of Serbia (PUPS), was appointed as minister two days later when Ana Brnabić's second cabinet was constituted and continues to serve in the role as of 2022.

The ministry is generally responsible for ensuring the economic vitality of Serbia's rural communities, many of which (as in other countries) have been declining in population and losing their younger residents to out-migration.

According to its website, the ministry performs "state administration tasks and related professional tasks related to: strategic consideration of the position of the village and the rural population; proposing measures and activities to improve living and working conditions in rural areas; nurturing tradition and traditional way of life in the countryside, in order to preserve the cultural and historical content of rural areas; as well as other activities determined by law."

The ministry is sometimes referred to by the more literal translation, Ministry of Care for the Village. The Serbian government's English-language website, however, uses the name, "Ministry of Rural Welfare."