Sociology and Space, No. 82, 1983.
Preliminary communication
Agrarian Problems of Small Villages in the S. R. Macedonia
Mitko Panov
Abstract
The article treats problems ecoountered
in small villages in the
S. R. Macedonia. There has been
a great increase in that type of
settlement, and data confirm a
very high degree of depopulation
and deagrarizatioin. These are
small villages with less than 100
inhabitants, and there are 378 of
them in Macedonia, or 23.2% of
all the villages in the republic.
During the last twenty years
their number increased by
150.3%.
The increasing dominance of
small villages in the network of
settlements is the result of their
distribution from the aspect of
certain natural and spatial determinants,
their population characteristics
and their household
structure, which is very unfavouräble
with regard to farming
areas. The author also analyses
the relationship between small
villages and cultivable land, which
is already being intensely abandoned.
This he shows through the
example of the Central Vardar egion.
The article ends with a short
survey of proposals on how to
solve the problems of small villages
in the interest of advancing
agriculture.
Keywords
Hrčak ID:
119686
URI
Publication date:
12.12.1983.
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