The economic development of Macedonia between the two world wars (1918-1941). In the period between the two world wars Vardar part of Macedonia, which, after the destruction of Macedonia during the Balkan and World War I enter the composition of the newly established state community The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (the Kingdom of SCS), which, after the sixth of the dictatorship of the 1929 It was renamed Kingdom of Yugoslavia, a typical agrarian area remained. According to the censuses of the population of 1921 and 1931, the population living in rural settlements accounted for three quarters of the total population. Agriculture and animal husbandry remained the most important economic branches. In agriculture, the petty possessions up to five hectares prevailed, which accounted for three quarters (74.3%) of the total number of possessions. The bulk of the arable agricultural areas were seated with cereals. Industrial crops, among which the most significant place belonged to tobacco, poppy and cotton, were represented on quite modest surfaces. Agricultural production was largely intended to meet their own needs of families. Livestock was heavily affected by the establishment of new artificial borders and especially with the withdrawal of the border towards Greece, making the breeders from this part of Macedonia and especially those of the Western mountainous areas, where livestock was most developed, no longer could during the winter months to They lower their flocks in warmer southern parts. The nomadic way of elaboration, which was largely practiced only by the Vlach lodies families, S “more gave him the place of the semi-domestic way of cattle. Statistically, the industry has seen a rise according to the number of raised industrial facilities, but at its essence it were small enterprises with a small value of the invested capital and a small number of employees. The craftsmanship continued to fail, not so because of the competition of domestic industrial production, but mostly due to the unbearable competition of industrial goods from other parts of the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. More new banks were opened, representing mainly branches of the banks from other areas and fired minor credit funds, before the village of mortgage loans, which was economically forced by members of the Serb population, which was colonized in this part of Macedonia. Lit.: Dr. Risto Hristov, the village in the Vardar part of Macedonia between the two world wars (socio-economic research), Skopje, 1993; It, the labor social layers in Macedonia (1918-1941), Skopje, 1996; The same, the village economy of Vardar Macedonia between the two world wars through archival sources, “History”, no. 1-2, Skopje, 1987; The same, the city economy of Vardar Macedonia between the two world wars through archival sources, “history”, no. 1-3, Skopje, 1988; Akad. Danco Zografski, the factors and guidelines of the economic development of Vardar Macedonia between the two world wars, “Yearbook of the Faculty of Economics”, Skopje, 1980; Dime Bojanovski – Kiril Jenov – Anna Pemovska, the development of agriculture in Macedonia, Skopje, 1955. R. H. The building of the Economic Chamber of Macedonia
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