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AGRICULTURAL LAND IN YUGOSLAVIA
AGRICULTURAL LAND IN YUGOSLAVIA

Author(s): Budimir Radenković
Subject(s): Agriculture, Economic history, Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Socio-Economic Research
Published by: Jugoslovenski Pregled
Keywords: Agriculture; Yugoslavia; Diet; Food; Socio-political changes; Land; Raw materials;

Summary/Abstract: A country’s agricultural potential, basic diet, food processing industries, and farm exports are all conditioned by the area, quality and location of agricultural land. Agricultural land in Yugoslavia was largely formed in the course of the last hundred years or so, i.e. in a period of intensive socio-political changes. These brought about large-scale demographic movements (a faster natural population increment and intensive inter-regional migration), a rise in the standard of living, and a growing “hunger” for land suitable for the production of food and industrial raw materials of agricultural origin. As a result, large areas of forests have been turned into arable land and much of the first-class but swampy soil in the Pannonian Basin reclaimed (drainage canals, etc.). These developments have been especially intensive in the last fifty years or so.

  • Issue Year: XII/1971
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 41-52
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English