The economic backbone of the monastery was the export of agricultural products, mostly olives, grapevine, and grain.

The Dajla monastery was also one of the most significant breeders of the Istrian Podolian, a special cattle breed from Istria.

In May 2006 the bishop of Poreč-Pula Ivan Milovan and the Benedictines signed an agreement to divide the monastery's property into two equal parts.

[5] In 2008, Pope Benedict XVI formed a commission of three cardinals tasked with the enactment of the previous agreement from 2006.

[5] Since the agreement put the Diocese at risk of bankruptcy, Milovan reached the Croatian government for support.

[5] So in August 2011, the Minister of Justice Dražen Bošnjaković declared the return of the real estate to the Church as invalid and took it under state ownership, with an explanation that the return of the property to the Church was invalid as the real owners in Italy have already been compensated, and the property never belonged to the Diocese in the first place.

[6] The new Croatian government led by Zoran Milanović promised not to be involved in what they considered to be inter-church relations.

[5][7] However, just when the commission's decision was supposed to take effect, the new Pope Francis was elected on 13 March 2013, and the State Secretary Tarcisio Bertone who supported the Benedictines was dismissed on 15 October 2013.

[8] Journalist Darko Pavičić writes that since Kutleša took over the episcopacy, the destiny of the ecclesiastical process over the Dajla dispute remained unknown, and considering that the Diocese survived financially, Pavičić writes that Kutleša resolved the inter-church conflict between the Benedictines and the Diocese.