DISCUSSES RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN YUGOSLAV AGRICULTURE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 19, 2011
• Sequence Number: 57
• Publication Date: April 14, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CcPJTRAL IPJ T ELLIGEfdCE AGENCY REPORT
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COUNTRY Yugoslavia DATE OF
INFORMATION 1951
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Economic - Agricultiure
Daily newspapers
Yugoslavia
14 - 21 Feb 1951
Slovenian; Serbo--Croatian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
DISCUSSES RECENT DEVELOPMENTS
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AGRICULTURE TO BE DIVIDED INTO FOUR AREAS OF ACTIVITY -- LJubl~ana, LJudska
Pravir,.s, 14 Feb 51
At a recent meeting of agriculture experts in Belgrade, it was decided
that additional steps should be taken to improve agricultureo Low agricul-
tural production was msinly attributed to the private sector.o According to
last year`s data, 25 percent of Yugoslav Parma had less than 2 hectares of
land, 60 percent less than 5 hectares, 78 percent leas than 10 hectares, and
7~8 percent more than 10 hectarea~ The experts found that small farms hinder
the mechanization of agriculture,
These experts agreed that agriculture should be divided into four basic
3reaB'OP activity: the lowland or grain producing area (The Panonian Plain
is the most significant section in this area); the hilly area (a large part
of the Sumadi,ja and similar regions); the mountain area; and the Mediter-
ranean-Karat area (a large part of Macedonia and the Dalmatian and Montene-
grin Primor,je)o
!I'he experts also agreed that Yugoslav socialist farms cannot be copies
oP Soviet kolkh~~zea and. sovkhozea as far as socialist forma and economic
foundatiene are concerned, Several new and significant organizational forma,
which are basically different Yrom Soviet organizational Porma, have emerged
during the current development of the socialist 9ectora Thia apFlies not
only to ownership and to the administration of basic means of production
.(e~g~ coo;~eratives were given agricultural machinec); but also to?the rela-
tionshipbetween the state and 1Argo socialie+, Ynrln~ (e~g,. the eat~blislm?ent
OY eCOIIOm1C unions o= , Term work cu%~ye)i'dti vd6) e
This year the Federal Agricultural Ecdnomy and Forestry Institute will '
study the economic and organizational problems of 70 farm work cooperatives
and 3o state Yarme throughout Yugoslavieo
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The Institute will also publish an economic geography of Yugoslav agri-
culture this year, This will be the first publication of .its kind in Yugo-
slavia,
At pieseat, the private sector includes 30 percent of ell the farms
in Yugoslavia and almost three fourths of the total arable land.
During the past 2 months, the supply of meat to consumers for purchase
with consumers' cards has been irregular and inadequate in moat cities in
Yugoslavia.
Farmers are reluctant to sell their livestock is the first 3 months
of the year The meat-purchasing program does not force them to do so, for
the same 11yPatpek can be 40 percent heavier in the spring. Consequently,
ih the fall of 1950, the Council for Commerce of the Federal Government of
Yugoslavia issued a new order which was to px'event the usual scarclty of
meat during these 3 months. The order called for the Republic Ministrles 4f
Commerce and Supply to work out, before the end"of 1950, a planned meat-
purchasing program for the srez and a compulsory meat delivery schedule to
make it possible to prepare the meat purchased and"delivered for winter
storage.
However, the experiences of recent years were repeated, The Serbian
Ministry of Co.~___e end Supply co?^*+~P+o~ the prnpnanA plan 4nr the Hur-
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chase and delivery of meat only a few days ago; therefore, not even the
meat-purchasing enterprises were able to carry out their work. Slovenia
wee the only rc~ublic where the meat-purchasing program was completed for
Jantusa-y; there the plan was fulfilled 101.2 percent.
Generally, m.:at storage plants were not made ready, although the E'ed-
eral Council for Commerce wsa granted credit by the Ministry of Finance
for undertakings of this kind. In Serbia, only 2,000 tons of meat were
processed or smoked, in Croatia about 200 tone, and to Sovenia about 300
tons.
Only the Ministries of Commerce and Supply of Macedonia, Montenegro,
and Bosnia end Rercegovina, prepared meat storage plants for last year's
meat reserves. Macedonia today has 909 tons or 1~ months zgpply of dried
mutton; Bosnia and Hercegovina has 4,000 tons of meat stored, and Montene-
gro will be able to issue frozen meat regularly to consumers for 3 months.
The meat reserve situation is more serious in Serbia, Croatia, and to
some extent, in Slovenia, It is too late sow to prepare stockpiles of meat.
Until the arrival of spring lambs, the situation can be improved only if the
srez and local people's councils iJmnediately hand over meat due the .;onsumer
for the first quarter of the year, and if the meat purchasing enterprises do
their work quickly and efficiently.
TO GET 130,080 IONS OF VEGETABLES IN 1951 -- Belgrade, Borba, 20 Feb 51
According to the 19;1 vegetable plan for Belgrade, the city is scheduled
*..c r~..~.w '?2,000 to.^^.~ of po;.atoee, 23,500 tons of cabbage, 10,423 tone of
onions, 3,760 tone of peas, 7,990 tone of peppers, 18,800 tons of tomatoes,
940 tons of spinach, and 24,667 tons of other vegetables this year. This
amounts to a total of 132,080 tons of vegetables.
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one hectare of nonirrigated land named by a private farmer"in Belgrade
Srez yields so average of 12,000 kilog_*ams of vegetables ~er yees~. To
produce 132,06? tons of vegetables, 11,390 hectares would have to be culti-
vated by 22,780 workers without agricultural machines.
The Pancevscki Rit farm will produce 17,820 tone oP vegetables this
year. According to the plan, it will bring to the Belgrade market 3,_700
tons of potatoes (8.8 percent of the amount needed), 600 tone of onions
(5 percent), 500 tone of peas (13 percent), 830 tons of peppers (10 percent),
2,190 tons~of tomatoes (11 percent) and 42J tons of spinach (44 percent).
50,000 CITRUS SEEDL7]QGS TO BE PLANTED -- Zagreb, V~eanik, 20 Feb 51
This year, 50,000 orange, lemon, and tangerine seedlings ~+ill be planted
on the Montenegrin coast. Ground is already being prepared in Bar, Kotor,
?: `$Cr~ desirsble r~si~li ti Qna Priat Yur cultivating sub-
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tropical plants. Places for planting are being chosen and irrigation canals
are tieing dug. Planting will be by the plantation system, which has shown
itself. to be the most suitable. Some olives, figs, and tropical fruits will
also be planted this year. Along with the preparations Yor planting sub-
tropical plants, enclosures of cypress sad laurel are being built to protect
the plants"from the wind.
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