Sociology and Space, No. 31-32, 1971.
Original scientific paper
Farming Co-operatives as a Factor in Yugoslavia's Current Industrialization Stage
Aleksandar Raić
Abstract
In the first part of his study the author analyses current trends in the development
of farming co-operatives in the conditions of a marketing economy, and
refers to the limited prospects for the development of this form of association of
small agricultural producers. In the view of the author the essential dilemma
in the development of co-operatives is the subsummation or integration of the
peasants. Due to limited profitability, the prospects for the utilization of the productive
forces of the private smallholding in the form of cottage industry (»sic
system«, known in Yugoslavia as 'co-operation'), are comparatively limited. As a
result, co-operatives, integrated with the country's agriculture, cannot subsummate
all those peasants who come forward under the pressure of marketing relations.
Due to the heterogenous nature of Yugoslavia's individual regions there exist
highly different concepts regarding the position and role of agricultural co-operatives.
This makes it very difficult to assess the suitability of the integration course
as a means for transforming Yugoslav peasant agriculture in the conditions of
self-managing socialism.
The possibilities for integration offered by the various forms of the socio-
-economic organization of the peasants in the conditions of industrialization are
still to be determined. Thus scientific replies to all these questions appear to be
the primary requirement.
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Hrčak ID:
119390
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Publication date:
10.6.1971.
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