Aspects of the technical development of Yugoslav agriculture
by Sandor Somogyi
International Journal of Technology Management (IJTM), Vol. 8, No. 1/2, 1993

Abstract: Technological progress involves specific issues which should be considered separately for the developed and for the less-developed countries. Yugoslavia is a country with meagre land potentials and a continual outflow of labour from agriculture, due to the intensive contraction of the agricultural sector. As a result, agricultural production development has been based increasingly on non-agricultural inputs. The increased use of the nonagricultural inputs has led to certain improvements in production but also to a faster growth of production costs and resulting reductions in capital accumulation and in the reproduction potentials of agriculture. Yugoslavia is at a crossroads. It has to increase production until self-sufficiency in food is reached. Simultaneously, it has to rationalize the technologies being used so as to reduce expenditures, energy consumption, pollution and environmental degradation as the basis for producing biologically healthy food and joining European trends towards the development of a so-called ecological market economy. The present war disaster makes the situation enormously difficult. Once the future of Yugoslavia and of the republics is decided, its economic problems will have to be solved through foreign capital assistance.

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