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Socio-economical Changes in Village of the Mediterranean region of Yugoslavia
Petar Marković
Sažetak
About 11.00% of the total Yugoslav population live in the Mediterranean
legion of the country. In the geographical, economical and cultural respect this
region is very heterogeneous. In this article the author considers the process of
differentiation of agricultural households according to professional orientation of
their youth members and active persons.
According to the first criterion there are three groups of households: (1)
households with no youth members at all, (2) households that school all their
youth members, and (3) households that keep their successors (37%).
Chaiacteristics oi the first group of households are: a) average age of members
about 60 years, b) average number of members is two, c) in comparison with
the other two groups it has the smallest number of members employed out of
agriculture, d) deserted members surpass the rate of natural increase in the
last two decades, e) in comparison with the other two groups of households it has
the highest share of pasture land and orchards in the structure of agricultural
land it owns, f) relatively it has the smallest number of cattle.
Characteristics of the second group of households are: a) average number of
members is about five, b) relatively it has the highest number of members
employed out of agriculture;Characteristics of the third group of households: a) average number of members
is about six, b) it keeps one, two or more successors on the farm, c) relatively
it has the highest share of vineyards in the structure of agricultural land.
The author comes to the conclusion that demographic changes, caused by the
migration of agricultural population, definitely influence the production orientation
of households.
According to the second criterion there are two groups of households: agricultural
ones (44%) and mixed or part-time ones (56%). In comparison with the
other regions of the country the number of part-time farms in this region is higher
and one such household has more members and the number of part-time households
will grow faster.
There are no big differences in the size of farm between these two groups
of households in this region which indicates the fact that part-time farms are
evenly represented in all size categories of farms. This is not the case in other
regions of the country. Production orientation is different too: for the first group
cattle-breeding and for the second group poultry-farming.
Agricultural holdings are stronger market producers than the Dart-time ones,
but according to the value of the total production there are interesting differences:
in economically more developed parts of the region it is higher in agricultural
holdings and in less developed parts of the region situation is reverse.
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Hrčak ID:
118606
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Datum izdavanja:
13.6.1967.
Posjeta: 691 *