The socialization of agriculture is
a great goal of the Yugoslav
agrarian policy, and much
attention is payed to scholarly
research work in that field.
The authors of this article analyze
changes that take place in privately
owned agriculture, and are
important for socialization, in the
first place for the increase of
socially owned land and the
association of private farmers.
They study changes in the number
of agricultural inhabitants,
changes in the ownership
structure of the private farm, the
social structure of the owners
of agricultural land, mechanization
in private agriculture, opinions
of farmers on land ownership and
the socialization of land, etc.
The conclusion they draw from
this analysis is that the small
Yugoslav farm is in a crisis, and
that it is difficult for it to adapt
to new conditions imposed by
technological and economic
development in agriculture. Most
farmers thus see the need for
changes in the agrarian structure,
which mean the increase of
socially owned land and the
association of private farmers.
Socialized farms, cooperatives and
other economic subjects occupied
in agriculture must make use of
these favourable circumstances to
speed up the process of
socialization in agriculture, which
has been lagging behind in
Yugoslavia for a decade and a half
