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Agricultural Population of Kosovo
Hivzi Islami
Sažetak
The Socialistic Autonomous Province
of Kosovo was in 1971 (the last census)
the only region in Yugoslavia,
where agricultural population prevailed.
The share of agricultural population in
the total was even 51.5 percent, which
was far more than in Slovenia in 1948
(46.7 precent). The reasons for this
should be looked for in unfavourable
historical conditions of economic
and social social development of the
Province. Only in 1960's the urbanization
and industrialization of this region
began, non-agricultural activities
developed, and it meant the beginning
of deagrarianization of the Kosovo village.
After these initial considerations the
author compares analytically the statistical
data regarding the changing number
of agricultural population in the
total of Province’s population according
to agricultural regions (mountainous,
hilly, flat land), communities, cadastral
communities and types of settlements
(village, community centre, city). The
analysis has shown the following: although
in all parts of Yugoslavia in the
period from 1961 to 1971 the absolute
number of agricultural population decreased,
in Kosovo it increased for approximately
22 thousand people. The
reason for that was, that there the natural
increase of agricultural population
(about 29 per mil for the period 1961—
—71) was higher than the transfer of
peasants to non-agricultural activities.
Besides that, the agricultural density of
population was very high — in 1971
there were 211 persons living on 100
ha of agricultural surfaces.
The most rapid decrease in participation
of agricultural population in the
total of DODulation was in industrial mining and urban regions. However,
for changes tin agrarian structure and
deagrariamization the vicinity of miming
and energy sources was more important
than that of a town. In spite of important
socio-economic changes occuring
in Kosovo during the last 15 years, approximately
45 percent of settled surfaces
have still 80—100 percent of
agricultural papulation, and more farmers
than non-farmers are living on
more than 80 percent of settled surfaces.
Ključne riječi
Hrčak ID:
119054
URI
Datum izdavanja:
15.6.1977.
Posjeta: 1.176 *