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Reproduction of agricultural households in Kosovo and Metohia
Borislav Radovanović
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This article is an interpretation of the investigation carried out among 1,754 agricultural households in Autonomous Province Kosovo and Metohia. The author concentrates his attention on the investigation results concerning the reproduction, and nonreproduction respectively, of households as agricultural units in the next
generation. Kosovo and Metohia belongs to the most underdeveloped regions in Yugoslavia. In that Province a numerous national minority group, called Siptari lives. Therefore the investigation embraced approximately the same number ot Siptari’s and Serbian households.
The author divided the households into three groups according to the fact whether will they remain agricultural household in near future or not. In the first group there were 9,l% of interviewed households without »agricultural« successors. Families in this group had no children or their children had completed their schooling and now live on their own. In the second group there were 36,9% of households. Families in this group intend to school their children so will lose
their possible »agricultural« successors. Finally in the third group there were 54% of households. They declared their intention to keep a successor on their farms. The author in the next part of the article figures out some characteristics of each group of households. For instance the third group of households intend to withhold on their farms 1,3 children on the average though the median number of children in these households amounted to 4,2. It means that; nearly 3 descendants from each household in this group will be leaving agricultural occupation too. Beside this the author points out that the first and the second group of households keep in their
ownership about 40¼ of the agricultural land while remaining 60% is in ownership of the third group. This fact indicates the possibilities for the expansion of socialistic agricultural enterprises. However it should be borne in mind that agrarian overpopulation in this Province has not been yet overcome and therefore the expansion of the socialistic sector in agriculture will still encounter certain difficulties.
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118215
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Datum izdavanja:
24.3.1964.
Posjeta: 747 *