ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCIAL COOPERATIVES

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220074-6
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 74
• Publication Date: April 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL IN1REPOR~
INFORMATION FROM
FOP(EIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CO NO.
WHERE
PUBLISHED Yugoslavia
DATE
PUBLISHED Jan-Feb 1949
LANGUAGE Serbo-Croatian
H'JVd DATE DIST. Y' Apr 949
P'JBLUSHED Newspapers
COUNTRY Yugoslavia
SUBJECT economic - Agricultural and commercial
cooperatives
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO,
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE Yugoslav, newspapers as indicated. (Information requested.)
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NI3>Dm CLASS FAmt m JOmma COOPxATIYSS -- Borba, No 4o, 16 Feb 49
Until 1948, most of the new members in form workers' cooperatives were
poor farmers. In 1949, however, the majori?r are middle-class fausers. This
class struggle +a rural districts, inoluding various economic measures taken.
by the Party WA the govexIment for the economic restriction and political
isolation of v elthy farmers and speculators, Is turning farmers toward the
cooperatives.
Belgrade Srez, for azample, a typical arez of middle-class and wealthy
farmers 'ahioh did not have a single farm workers' cooperative in 1948, now
has four, in which more than 30 families are enrolled. Fifteen to 20 percent
of the middle-class farmers are enrolled in these cooperatives.
In the village of Bipan3, where there Is no cooperative at present, a
campaign Is in progaoss to establish one. Over 20 percent of the addle-class
farmers have already signed up to join. Ails is -)no of the wealthiest villages
In tae area.
coom TIY3 FAFiIB n 1 Asma -- Barbs, No 4o, 16 Feb 49
In December 1948 there were 1,318 farm workers' cooperatives in 'Yugoslavia.
During the last few months, new members have joined at a rate of about 240 per
'v, and at presort there are about 1,560 farm workers' noc?eratives. Over
60 were formed in the vojvaum is January, with a membership of over 5,000
families at present. There were 3.68 farm workers' cooperatives in Serbia by
1 Jan= 7 and aim w..w by 1,-*wbroary. thirty-six were formed there in Octobers
49 in November, 49 in December, and 39 in January.
In 1 cedonia, the entire population of 31 villages are cooperative members.
Twenty-two new farm workers' cooperatives were formed in Macedonia during January
and the first half of February. Only two arez in this republic are still
without cooperatives.
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In Croatia, 63 new cooperative have been formed since 1 January. The
total has increased from four in 1945 to 320 at present, with a membership of
about 8,400 fazrllies.
I1 ' C00MATIIES $ MAL iIA -- Borba, No 39, 15 Fab 49
While there were only i5 fn .or rs' cooperativaa, with a m borship of
2,17Q families and 10,198 hectares of laud, in Macedonia by the end Of 1947,
at. the en& of 19108 there were,237 farm workara' cooporatitve, of which 228
aere.In rural. and nine in ueban dxetricts,or 249 percent more than a year
before... The m?ber of families belonging to cooperatives rose to 8,633 ix.
1948, or-39 pmt Mare than it 1947, and they'L,:d'47,177 additional hsea
of land at their diepooul. A large nusber of middle-class farmers were
abso ied; into aooperitives in 1948, whereas most recroite in 1947 were poor
COOMUMM it WZVMU -- Borba, Jo 41, 17 Feb 49
Joao Iewstik, Slovenian Minister of Agrioultvr?, annonn.}e$ to the Sloyenlan
8hegatim thpt over 2,300 far*; woitiex' ' cooperatives have been f in
Movexta, that, 243 soop tiaa`headquarters have been built and that 286 arore
$x' ? ooastzuotion. Within the last for m=05,-286 cooperative fazi s with
16,000 heotares of lani, 87 artisan workshops, 100 crop stations, and 32
meohinesy stations have been formed.
IM" 000MATI1I -- Marodni List, No 1113, T Jan 49
. 'Theme are DOW 26 farm workers' cooperatives in Istria, with a meaberahip
of 470 peasant families and 4,870 hectares of land.
Ol O(Sfl d7AL In -- ales Istre, No 561, 4 Feb 49
At the logia trg of 1948 there were 11 State enterpriaea, 54 cooperative
afd 52 pr1wate In Pala Bret. At the em of the year there were 116 state
enterpeisss altogether, as a result of nationalization.
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