Extracs-- Agriculture in Czeehoslovakia

Abstract

A 6year old republic.The present country of Crechoslovakia was carved out of the old Austro-Hungarian Empire when it brokeup in 1918. the republic has an area of 54.240 square miles and contains a population of 13.612.172 souls.In the eastern provinces of Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia. 62 per cent of the poulation is agricultural while in the western industrialised provision of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia the agricultural population is only 31 per cent.Agricultural production per unit of area is lower in Slovakia than in the western provinces where agriculture is more extensive but per capita production is higher.On the other hand.Slovakia and Ruthenia are an important market for the industrial products of the other provinces.During the war.little chili salt petre or superphosphate was imported and supply of stable manure became short due to the military requisition of cattle. The bological potency of the soil and th animals was reduced. so much so that in 1918-19 the decline in agricultural production compared with the pre-war returns was estimated at 40 per cent. The Republic had to face enormous difficulties at the outset--inflated currency,necessity for production against aggresive neighboursand for openng at new schools. budgetary deficits, disorganised financial administration exhaustion of agriculture necessitating large bornwings abroad for purghase of food staffs, lons for equipment of army.obiligations imposed as the result of peae treaties, abs of a currency of its own.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.29321/MAJ.10.002002

Pages

10 - 15

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