ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY.

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• Publication Date: March 30, 1949
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Tugoelaria
SUBJECT Poonoala - Agrioulture ands forestry.
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newepapere
WHERE
PUBLISHED Yagoclawia
DATE
PUBLISHED January 1949
LANGUAGE
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SOURCE Borba, (Information regaested.)
agriaaltare is 1946 not Sts sowing plan 94.4 percent awed its wale
gram prodaotion
plan 103.2 percent, of which the wheat plan was not 111.4 percent, The pin
for grain oropa ww met 108.6 percent, of which the wheat plea wu net 119.4
percen".
CRUTIAP A01071=3 3N 1548 ,- Borba, No 17, 20 Jan 49
7m crop purchase of white pain was 139 percept gssatsx than is 19471
that of potttice, 149 perseat1 asst, 302 perc.at1 acd milk, 22 psroeat. The
1948 plan we not 110 percent for whits grains (the crop parohsee of own is
inoosplsts, but iedioatiome are that it wilt be ..t), 88 percent for potatops,
184 percent for early vegetables, 1}4.4 percent for wine, 83 per.Lt for neat,
and 33 percent for Rik.
Zn 1946 there were 434 rural workers' oooperatites; with a moberehd of
25,068 haaeskolde ad 121,318 hoitanu of laM, in all lhgoslawia. Is 19 7
.were were 779 nab seoperatiwee with a n nberehip of 40,390 hoaNNalde'aad
P4,iAL W I ' 000mAMU -- Dorba, No 19, 63 Jan 49
dianre.for the parabaes of fats awhinery, and the toeniaa gown ernt ?awe a
oubaidy of A7800,000 Atmore. IIhs ooopmtiws also k+d at tbuir Si.poeal a credit
,if 37,784,000 dinars at the Investment Park, need 16,197,000 dinen at the People's
..!fart bnildiage began in 1947. The Ministry of Apiaaltare eontribetsd 2,700,000
811,021 hsetarss of land. In 1958 there were 1,3 saga eoopcrsoiw.s, with a
membership of 60,. households and 323,984 hectares of ISM.
In Points aM Lres,o ina there were 77 renal woriara' esoporatiws with
a m bership of 2,417 beuecboide had 12,047 hectares of land by the cad-of
1947. In 1948 there were 180 snob oeoperatiwes, with a membership of 4,233
hwwholds sad 20,327 heetasts of lead. Ton none are being established, and
plans haws been made for 37 others.
Parma. 1948, Swaim eoopsratiwes resolved 7 aiilioa dimes in ge-eramant
funds for the parch... of liwestoot, sad another 7 million listen to en-late
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end of 1948 there were 28 rural workers' cooperatives, with a
membership of 756 households,'in Montenegro. The first such cooperatives in
Montenegro was founded in the i!rst half of 1947.
FARM C00fl2ATIVffi fl SERBIA -- Borba, No 21, 25 Jan 49
According to a report by Stojadin Sto,kovin, president of the Association
of Rural Workers' and Agricultural Cooperatives, there were 3,314 such cooperatives
in Serbia with 1,440,374 members by tha and of 1948. The plan for 1949 provides
that agricultural cooperatives shall realise a turnover of goods worth about 15
billion dinars, produce various building materials worth about 500 building
dinars, produce about 130,000 heotoliters of alcoholic beverages and about 112,000
tons of fruit and vegetables, and complete cooperative buildings and other
construction worth about 6,200,000,000 dinars.
One of the moat important problems facing the cooperatives is the re-
organization of baying-and selling cooperatives into unified organizations of
a new type, and embracing all aspects of rural economic activity. Since the
reorganization began, 1,385 committees for farming 1,302 for animal husbandry,
1,185 for fruit and viticulture, 1,063 for local fin ace, and 453 for electri-
fication had been founded by the end of 1948.
About 70,000 hectares of land have been allocated by the Serbian government
for the formation of 858 new cooperative eoonoalo unttm. Eight hundred seventy
farm-machinery stations, 62 stook alarms, and about 260 has io'^eft shops halm
been established so far.
The purehaee of farm produce in 1948 amounted to 5 billion dinars, as
compared with about 2 billion is 1947.
C00PERATIPBB IN CROATIA -- Borba, No 17, 20 Jan 49
At the sail of 1947 there ware 1,126 rural buying-sad-selling cooperatives
and 328 rural production cooperatives, with a total of 644,660 members, is
Croatia. By the errd of 1948 theme cooperatives bad beams agricultural
cooperatives, and there were 2,013 eoopsratives with 760,738 mashers.
Whereas in 107 none of the oeoperativeu had so much as a heaters of land,
501 cooperatives 0oon0iaio amts with a total of 47,314 hectares (702,522 of it
arable) were formed during 1948.
Turnover of goods in the cooperatives amounted to 9t900,000,000 dinars is
19x8, including 2,300,000,000 dtaars'i worth of isdnstrial products.
Th: a.:mbsr of rural workers' eeoperatives has risen from 156 at the end of
1947 to 320 am.
AORIOtAiVRAL BIRUATI0E I HMMMMO -- Barba, lo 20, 24 Jan 49
State farming in llanteaegro by the sod of 1918 bad expanded rover an area
of 900 hectares of arable lose,, There were 28 rural workers' cooperatives with
638 hectares of land in the repaslio. Ths rural workers' cooperatives in 1948
had at their disposal 2,200 sheep, 40 pairs of assn, breedLsg stock, acme tools,
and a cash credit of about 1.55 million dinars.
Bevan hundred eighty million dinars have been allocated for great
reclamation prossots o, national importeace in ltontenep'e during 19491
reclaiming the Bjeloplavioka plal.n, and draining Lb 4outari.
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The first rural workers' cooperative In Slovenia was founded in 1944, and there
were only four in 1945; but there were 28 in 1946, 45 In 1947, and 70 by the end of
1948.
In 1945 the workers' cooperatives averaged 97 hectares each, as ooapered
with 184 h t 18
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The adoption of scientific methods has raised the y4-'4 of grain on
cooperative farms by 5 quintals per hectare since 1947
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eve an average) nod 200 quintals of potatoes per hectare. The average
yidle of corn on rural workers' cooperatives in 1948 was 20 quintal, per
hectare, and some cooperatives obtained 22 quintal,. Two cooperatives
obtained 300 quintale of potatoes per hectare.
I an , or 1 percent more than In 1947; the plan for crop
ptu bans Cr pct9toee, only 67 percent, but more than double the 1947 figure.
According to a speech delivered by Djuro Pucar before the Bosnian Saapstir_:'
on 22 January, the 19);8 plan for the crop purchase of white grains in Bosnia eras
net 133 percent, an Increase of 68 percent over 1947; the plan for purchase of
meat, 149 percent, of over fire times as such as in 1947; the plan for purchase
of hntr" 10'S non?n t
CROP PURCHAS>r IN BOSNIA IN 1948 -- Berta, No 19, 23 Jan 49
RELAXATION PROJBCTS IN CROATIA -- Borba, No 19, 23 Jan 49
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braruhta of the Dravc, Danube, and laresioa will reclaim another 16 jutro.
Wank an ths e&n,1 ,.911 t,. -- .- .-L.
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the Dmoube between 7mt. evao and Eo r th bark of
paoevo by enlargir~ the dike, thus protsotiog
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Jr ag roe, which is a new crop in this arse.
In the Beranja, work It now in progress to rainforoe th
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drainage and flood control projects, At the sane t:,,,e about 17,000 intro ih
12 Tillages near Nora Oradiska were protected from floods. The most important
project we? the draining of the Crnao plain and thA oon,truat4on of a 53-kilo-
mster protective dike around it. Thousand of jutro of now farm land will be
used in 1949 for lanti i
The Montenegrin budget for 1949 provides over a billir_n dinars for the
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RECLAMATION PROJNOTS IN MONTA!N o -?? Borba, No 21, 25 Jan 49
A project to ocs!plete the Ljerkopolje canal and to build an irrigation net
there thus reclaiming about 3,500 hectares for cultivation, is to be oonpleted
in 1949. A total of 12,560 4ectares of land will be reclaimed in Moneneao
during the year, exclusive of the lake Scutari project. The total area to be
reclaimed under the entire Fire-Year Plan is 22,000 hectares.
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Albanian goverrmeht denounoed it and all other 2hgool4v aid u eooronio robbery,
has been started. Preliminary work on canals and the drainage tunnel bele-2
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agrioulture and for reolaaation projects, in addition to 6S
million diners for forestry and the wood industry,
The project of draining lake Scutari which wan defe
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