AUSTRIA. 



SOME AGRTCULTURAIv PROBI^EMS IN DALMATIA. 



OFFICIAI, SOURCE. 



OE3TERREICHI3CHES Jahrbuch FUR 1912 (AustHan Yearbook for 1912), Vienna 1912. 



OTHER SOURCES : 



GrubisiC (A.) : Agranie operazije kas sredstvo za podigxince ekonomi&ik okolnosti Dalmacije 

 [Agricultural Operations as a means of promoting Economic Progress in Dalmatia), I'ola, 

 1911. 



ViNSKA Kriza. IzvesCe o ankeli [The Crisis in Wine Production. Reports of the Enquiry) Spa- 

 lato, 1909. 



lyElTHE (Dr. H.) : Dalmatinische Agrarprobleme [Dahnatian Agrarian Problems), Wrena, 1912. 



§ I. Agricultural area and umprovements. 



Dalmatia is pre-eniinently au agricultural country\ According to 

 the available statistics it had, in 1911, 642,810 inhabitants of whom 

 518,790 or 86 per cent, belonged to the agricultural 'class. Nevertheless 

 Dalmatia exports no agricultural products, but in fact imports a large quan- 

 tity of them. In 1912 it imported : 



240,500 crowns' (i) worth of cereals 



797,300 " " fruit and vegetables 



293,200 " " " animal products. 



The values of the merchandise of these respective categories exported 

 were 69,400, 133,100 and 81,900 crowns. Onl}' with respect to Uve stock 

 did the value of exports — 674,000 crowns — exceed that of imports — 

 26,800 crowns. Thus the case of Dalmatia is the singular one of an 

 agricultural country which has an agricultural production inadequate to 

 its own needs. It is worth while to seek the causes of this phenomenon. 



(i) I crown of gold =10 — d. at par. 



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