Sociology and Space, No. 59-60, 1978.
Original scientific paper
Productional and Economic Characteristics of Agricultural and Part-Time Households in SR Croatia
Josip Defilippis
Abstract
The author is basing this study upon
the analysis of census of agriculture
and upon partial results of some
empirical researches. His analytical
unit is the household, and namely
the agricultural, the part-time
and the average rural household
taken parallely. The study is divided
into three sections depending upon
the problems being discussed:
productional capacities of the rural
household (indicators being the
production capacity of the land,
household labour capacities and
capacities of means of production
i.e. machines), way and elements ot
existing durable consumer goods
(total income structure, income
distribution, some forms of personal
consumption in rural households,
and structure of household's financial
expenses), and elements of existing
durable consumer goods in the
rural household.
The research has shown that
agricultural households differ from
part-time households in larger land
surfaces, wider labour capacities and
better machine equipment. It is,
however, to be noticed that both
household types decrease their
agricultural labour and land
capacities trying to compensate these
by better equipment with farm
machines. The part-time households
lead in the general tendency of
decreasing land and labour capacities.
Thus, they increase the differences
in production capacities between
these two household types. In agricultural households farming
means 3/4 and in part-time households 1/4 to 1/3 of the total
income. As the income from farming
increases more slowly than any other
income, so grows the total income
of an agricultural household more
slowly than the income in part-time
households. In this way the economic
position of agricultural households
grows constantly relatively al the
worse.
In both household types the majority
of income is spent as personal
consumption (over 60 percent).
In both types of households the
personal consumption is, however,
growing more quickly than the total
income, which means that constantly
less means remain in the household
for covering of production expenses
and investment in the household
development. In this way there are
less means left for the
intensification of the production in
the household. Such behaviour
decreases in particular the
possibility for economic development
of the agricultural production. The already existing differences in
production capacities and economic
status of analysed household types
are constantly increasing, and
namely to the disadvantage of
agricultural households, causing
surelly further socio-economic
diferentiation in the village.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
119090
URI
Publication date:
7.6.1978.
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