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TRENDS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIVATE SMALLHOLDINGS, EDUCATION OF YOUNG PEOPLE, AND MOVEMENT FROM THE LAND IN CENTRAL POSAVINA
Joko Sparavalo
Sažetak
The views expressed by agricultural producers during an enquiry covering
private farms in Central Posavina indicate that essential changes have taken place
in the rural population's views on farming as a permanent source of earning
a living. These views are chiefly the result of the comparatively favourable conditions
for earning a living by farming that were introduced by the economic
reform. At present, however, these conditions no longer exist. As a result of a marked agrarian over-population and probably also of the
new conditions of earning, numerous households show a tendency towards expanding
their property particularly that suited for livestock farming. This is also an
indication of the social sector's declining prospects for an expansion of its landed
property in the region.
The enquiry has shown a very definite attachment of the peasants to their
farms as a source of income: more than three quarters of the households would
not sell their land even if they were offered guarantees for employment and accommodation
in town. It is interesting that under such conditions a large number
of the households (45.1%) would split, with some of its members staying on the
land and others accepting new employment and moving to town.
According to the views expressed by the interviewed peasants regarding continuity
in farming their land, more than four fifths of the farms are to be run
by the next generation. Technical agricultural training of the future heads of
households will again be non-existent; even the level of general education, judging
by the type of school to be attended by the future heads of the households, will
be very low.
Despite the presence of a marked ambition to leave the farm and the rural
community, the region’s economic development since the war has had very little
influence on the movement of the population from private farms. An additional
cause for this has been the existing low level of school education which is not
conducive to long-term migration trends. Thus at 74% of the farms there has been
no tendency towards leaving the land since the war.
As regards the schooling of the young there is a very marked ambition to
achieve a much higher level of education than is that achieved at present. About
70% of the children and young people should acquire a higher level of education
than the 8-class elementary schooling. Thus most of the young people (67.6%)
want to leave farming and the rural community after completing their schooling.
Naturally, the realization of these ambitions depends on a number of limiting
factors most of which are to be sought outside the farms.
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Hrčak ID:
121365
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Datum izdavanja:
9.7.1968.
Posjeta: 1.047 *