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Some characteristics of Part-time Holdings in Bosnia
Ljubo Božić
Sažetak
In this article the author interprets the main results of the preliminary
elaboration of the questionnaire on part-time holdings in Bosnia conducted by the Agrarian Institute in Zagreb at the end of 1963 and the beginning of 1964. 158 agricultural households with somebody permanently employed out of agriculture were interviewed. 58.00% of the total number employed out of agriculture from the interviewed households work in their or nearby village and the remaining 42.00% in towns. Peasants thus primarily prefer the employment close to their homes and holdings. The majority of them have low wages, even some receive under 20,000 dinars a month. During the last few years intensive employment out of agriculture has been taking place, but some new moments in the economic policy, as measures dimed to rise the productivity of labour, modernization of production etc, may
cause the substantial decrease of newly opened jobs, especially for unqualified man-power that flow from private agricultural holdings.
The medial size of landestate is about 2.3 hectares of arrable land per each interviewed household and the medial number of persons is 6. This means that the agrarian overpopulation is very high.
More than half of the interviewed households do not keep working cattle, but have more other kinds of animals.
Informations gathered on their intentions to buy or to sell land are very important for the anticipation of their deagrarization. Only 26 respondents (heads of families) expressed plans of selling the whole or the part of their landestatesand only 4 expressed plans of buying new land. Data on buying and selling food products showed that the most of the interviewed households were oriented more to consumption than to selling own produced agricultural products (autoconsumption).
Women are the busiest members of family because they are considerably engaged in the process of agricultural production. Women in only 13.00% of the interviewed families were not participating in land cultivation works. During the last 20 years the interviewed mixed households built 94 new homes and 46 economic objects. They mainly invest money in home comfort and far less in the improvement of their agricultural capacities. The author's opinion is that mixed household represents »the half way« in the process of transformation of agricultural household into nonagricultural and as such is the most dynamic category in the agrarian structure.
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Hrčak ID:
118227
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Datum izdavanja:
24.3.1965.
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