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Characteristics of Agricultural Population of Sjenica-Pešter's Region
Svetozar Mitić
Sažetak
This region is situated in the backward and mountainous part of South-West
Serbia. Cattle-breeding is the main branch of economy. Isolation from the
economically developed regions of the country as well as the primitive way of
agricultural production are the factors one should take into account when analyses
the socio-economical and demographical changes. Economical structure of
population did not change much after the war. Demographical and agrarian changes
were caused by emigration. Growth of population slowed down, surplus of labour
power and agrarian overpopulation decreased, economical position of population
improved. Temporal migrations of labour power helped this development too.
Demographic-agrarian characteristics of the population are specific. Population
is »young«, rates of natural increase are high, life-time of people is short. Still
there is a tendency of gradual diminishing of the birth-rate and the mortality rate
so that in the immediate past period the natural increase remained nearly the same.
As nonagricultural activities in this region are underdeveloped the increase
of underemployed agricultural labour power will become a main problem in
coming years. The positive results of the postwar emigration will be jeopardized.
The author’s opinion is that progress of this region lies in agriculture where
solutions for economical problems of population in this region must be found.
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Hrčak ID:
118619
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Datum izdavanja:
13.6.1967.
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