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THE COOPERATION IN AGRICULTURE IN SR CROATIA
Svetozar Livada
Sažetak
In Yugoslavia social sector of agriculture cooperates with the individual
agricultural producers in a crop production as well as in a cattlebreding. The main
forms of such cooperation are: 1) mechanical service in ploughing and harvesting 2) supply of inputs 3) agricultural extension service 4) credit arrangements 5)
contract arrangements with guaranteed buy off prices 6) cooperative production.
The cooperation is free and voluntary. Its main goals are: gainings in economies
of production, increase of production for market and inclusion of individual
agricultural producers into social division of labour and planned agricultural
production. The author undertook an analysis of the development of cooperation
in agriculture in SR Croatia during the period from 1957 to 1963. In 1957 in
various forms of cooperation there was only 0,4% of the total arrable individually
owned land, while in 1962. that procentage rose to 6,2. In some years during the
analysed period there were 2 to 5 times more individual owners in the cooperative
crop production than in the cattlebreeding cooperation. Though individual
owners through cooperation produce on a more profitable way and with more
economies, cooperation has not yet achived a satisfactory level. Higher yields
per hectar in cooperation (for wheat up to 0,5 ton and for corn 1,1 tons) than
in individual farming, are not sufficient motive for many individual farmers to
enter cooperation. Taking into account the fact that the social sector in SR
Croatia is rather small (occupies only 12% of the total arrable land), the author
considers as necessary to intensify cooperation and to increase the yields in
cooperative production.
The socio-economic justification of cooperation for society and for individual
producers as well, the author sees in realization of following demands:
1) increase of agricultural production up to the maximum by the use of
social means of production.
2) distribution of income in cooperation according to the partner’s participation
in production and work.
3) realization of the socialistic expanded reproduction.
4) realization of selfmanagement in the form of association of producers.
Farmer’s inclination to cooperation with social sector of agriculture and the
increase of yields per hectar in cooperative production will depend on realization
of above mentioned demands, concludes the author.
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121280
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Datum izdavanja:
7.1.1964.
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