Sociology and Space, No. 46, 1974.
Original scientific paper
CERTAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF PART-TIME FARMS IN YUGOSLAVIA
Maja Štambuk
Abstract
In her article the author discusses the basic statistical data on part-time
farms in Yugoslavia.
According to her, the decrease in the number of exclusively agricultural
tarms and the increase in the number of part-time and non-agricultural farms
are due partly to the development of the country’s economy and the resulting
increasing employment m non-agricultural activities, and partly to the small
average size of private smallholdings on which it is impossible to develop economic
activity ol any major proportions. Employment in two* or several sectors of activity
m most cases occurs as an economic necessity of rural households and affects
the productive orientation of part-time farms: as a rule their market ability
diminishes, they chiefly produce food for their own requirements, and their size
becomes adjusted to the family members who stay on the farm as the basic manpower,
i. e. women and old men. As regards the structure of spending, these households
do not differ much from urban households i most of their income is spent
on improving accommodation and acquiring labour-saving devices and only a small
proportion of their income is invested in improving the farm. Part-time households
spend more on the education of children than do purely agricultural households,
and this allows the conclusion that in the next generation many of these farms
wall not be reproduced as part-time farm's.
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Hrčak ID:
118957
URI
Publication date:
10.12.1974.
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