Komparativna analiza proizvodnje žita na Balkanu od 1925. do 1939. godine na osnovu godišnjih statističkih izveštaja društva naroda
Comparative analysis of grains production in the Balkans from 1925 to 1939 based on the Statistical Yearbooks of the League of Nations

Summary/Abstract: The study presents quantitative comparative analysis of agricultural cereal production in the Balkans from 1925. to 1939. with the aim of showing long-term economic trends. Research was based on statistical publications that were published by the League of Nations (Statistical Yearbooks of the League of Nations, 1926–1944). Analysis of quantitative structure offered the possibility to derive several conclusions. Balkan states from 1925. to 1939. had not changed the agricultural structure inherited from the period before World War I. They were the agrarian countries with underdeveloped industry, where the agricultural population made 70% of the total population. Extensive production, pressure on land, hidden unemployment, small ownershipped, lack of capital and investment, lack of machinery and chemicals production were the problems of the Balkan states. Agricultural production was based on grain crops, primarily on corn and wheat. In absolute values, Romania and Yugoslavia were in the top of European farmers, yet they were economically at the bottom. Industrial plants have grown very little, except in the case of Greece. Extremely low yields, which are seen most clearly in the comparative analysis of European states with the Balkans, even more shows inferiority Balkan agriculture. Yet, grain production had tendency of growth, mainly in Greece, then Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Romania. That growth, based on an increase in production of maize and wheat, was not based on investment in production, but to increase of the arable land of these cultures and to increase of labor force in the rural areas, with suitable climatic characteristics of the peninsula and economic circumstances in the world.

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