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The Reproduction of the Factors of Production in Yugoslav Agriculture
Vojin Radomirović
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The author discusses the optimal
use and coordination between the
basic factors of production in
agriculture: labour force, land and
capital. His basic intention is to
remove ideological and dogmatic
strata in theory and policy, and to
reveal a rational-empirical and
scientific approach to problems of
demographic and economic
reproduction in Yugoslav
agriculture.
Studying the problem of how to
persuade a larger number of young
people to decide to make a living
in agriculture, he seeks for a
solution in the better social position
of the elderly in the village. The
family as a manner of social
insurance, when the elderly are in
question, is dying out, and social
solidarity on a wider scale is
essential, through old-age pensions
or an annuity for old people in the
village.
The author shows that land
maximum of 10 hectares cannot be
maintained from the aspect of
economic rationality. The greatest
part of primary agriculture in
Yugoslavia, 80—90% in the post-war
period, is organized as so-called
personal work, and its limitation is
harmful from several aspects — for
productivity and for proportional
distribution of work and resources
in society.
Analyzing economic reproduction
in Yugoslav agriculture (prices,
credits, subsidies, reserves) he
considers the basic problem to be
the range in which economic relations are based on market
relations, and the irrational and
costly intermediaryship that leads
to monopolies and closing in. Food
that is cheap in comparison with
the costs and value of production
leads to deformities in behaviour
and in the decision on what
occupation to chose, and to
instability of production and
consumption.
In conclusion the author indicates
the origins of a dogmatic
relationship towards the peasant
and agriculture, which is only at
first glance a product of Marxism,
while it in fact continues the feudal,
guild and bureaucratic relations
from the past. Without considering
the dialectics of work and life,
production and consumption, there
is no successful social development.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119609
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.6.1982.
Posjeta: 1.422 *