ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE POLITICAL - COLLECTIVIZATION

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600221165-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1165
• Publication Date: May 18, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Yugoslavia
Economic - Agriculture
Political - Collectivization
Daily newspaper
PUBLISHED Belgrade
DATE
PUBLISHED 7 Apr 1949
LANGUAGE Berbo-Croatian
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REPORT
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IIbi "A k COdPIItATI9S ZW[F- ITIOms -- Barba, No 83, 7 Apr 49
The First Federal Conference of Cooperative Farmers, meeting in Belgrade,
has drawn up new regulations on farm workers, cooperatives to replace the
old ones issued at the beginning of 1946.
The new regulations recognise two types of cooperatives on the basis of
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eraticortribute their land Hader a lease. f ii-he linderomains their ownP
property, ald, if they wish to withdraw from the cooperative, they sr p have
It back after 3 yearn. Members receive a rental, which may not exceed 30
percent of the total net inocme of the ocoperative. Most rents are to be
fixed by the annual meeting of cooperative members, which may set it as they
see fit, at 10 percent, 3 percent, or abolish it. Most cooperatives, quite
properly, have lowered the rental to a very low figure, in come oases 3 per-
cent, realizing that rent is a vestige of capitalism.
These are the lowest type of cooperative, but they prepare their mom-
ban for a higher form. Consequently, the rents must not be lowered until
conditions are ripe.
Cooperatives Of the second type are those to which the members con-
tribute their land, retaining ownership of it. and reoei-em + +
mare than 6 percent (the legal rate of interest), not by the meeting not
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