Agrarian Changes in the Lower Neretvian Area from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Century

The Lower Neretvian area is one of the most developed agricultural regions of Croatia. Until the second half of the twentieth century, this was a scarcely populated area with poor inhabitants and undeveloped agriculture. Extensive land cultivation and low production of field crops dominated the econ...

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Published in:Agricultural history 2005-04, Vol.79 (2), p.193-220
Main Authors: Faričić, Josip, Šiljković, Željka, Glamuzina, Martin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
18th century
Agricultural development
Agricultural land
Agricultural techniques
Agriculture
Commercial production
Croatia
Crop economics
Crop production
Crops
Ditches
Earth sciences
Economic conditions
Geographic regions
History
History of science and technology
Human action
Intensive production
Market
Post-communist societies
River deltas
Social conditions
Socialism
Swamps
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Summary:The Lower Neretvian area is one of the most developed agricultural regions of Croatia. Until the second half of the twentieth century, this was a scarcely populated area with poor inhabitants and undeveloped agriculture. Extensive land cultivation and low production of field crops dominated the economy of the region. The agrarian landscape was formed by a simple system of ditch digging, which helped the local people extend cultivation into the swamp area. In the period of socialist planning and economy before 1990, the government made many attempts at land improvement in this area. These primarily involved the expansion of agricultural areas, intensive land cultivation, and introduction of new field crops. However, agricultural production in the communist period, especially until the mid-1960s, was not market-oriented; therefore problems regarding the management of this big economic potential did not emerge until the transformation of the Croatian economy during the 1990s. These regional problems have much larger social and economic ramifications.
ISSN:0002-1482
1533-8290
DOI:10.1215/00021482-79.2.193