The slicing cucumbers are grown mostly in home gardens and plastic greenhouses for the fresh market. Cucumbers are harvested from the field in early spring in small plastic-covered greenhouses. Most of the field crop does not ripen until late June. Slicing cucumbers are sold fresh for immediate consumption both on the domestic and foreign markets. Pickling cucumbers are primary used for processing and pickling. They are grown in high greenhouses on larger areas for industrial processing.

Cucumbers are an important crop in the Serbian food industry. The cucumber processing industry is considered to be the biggest and most valuable sub-sector of pickled-pasteurized vegetables in Serbia. The total production of this sub-sector amounted to 2,955 tons in 2004, and this sector boasts some of the largest producers of processed vegetables located in Central Serbia: Budimka (Pozega), Srbijanka (Valjevo) and Vojvodina (Yucom, Tavankut).