Sociology and Space, No. 2, 1963.
Original scientific paper
PEASANTS’ LAND TRADE AND LAND LEASE RELATIONSHIPS
Vlado Cvjetićanin
Abstract
In the author’s opinion the peasants’ land trade and land lease relationships
express in the most direct way the interests of landowners to their land as the
basic means of production. Therefore these relationships represents one of the most
characteristic indicators of social changes in agriculture and changes in landownership
agrarian structure. At the same time the author points out that definite corelation
exists between the volume and intensity of peasants’ land transfer transactions
and the possibilities for taking over the land into social ownership.
In 1959. 304.553 private land owners or 7,8% of their total number participated
in land-buyine and land-selling transactions. In cumulation there were 94.624 hectars
of land or 0,84% of the total acreage in private ownership. In land-lease relationships
participated, 480.861 farms (or 18,3% of their total number) with 351.752
hectars of land.
Using a lot of suitable informations the author finds out the tendencies and
inclinations of private landowners towards their land according to whether certain
categories of landowners, participate more in selling and renting their land or in
buying land and taking land on lease. The farms with income partly sprung from
agricultural and partly from nonagricultural activities, as a rule, aliente their land more intensively. On the other hand larger farms (5—10 ha) show considerable
tendency of buying land and taking land on lease. Also changes in size of farms
due to land transfer transactions are shown.
At the end the author analyses the social and economical presumptions for the
land transfer transactions among peasants and in connection with this explicates
the data about labour power on farms, nonfarm employments of peasants, equipment
of farms, power units and migrations of agricultural population.
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Hrčak ID:
121271
URI
Publication date:
13.11.1963.
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