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BULLETIN 1234, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
These figures indicate that within the present area of Yugoslavia 
under pre-war conditions there was an average exportable surplus 
of 1,500,000 bushels of wheat and rye, or assuming that the export 
surplus would be in the same proportion as the production of the 
two cereals, about 1,300,000 bushels of wheat and 200,000 bushels 
of rve. The actual pre-war exports of the two cereals from the old 
Kingdom of Serbia averaged (1904-1909) 3,700,000 bushels. The 
acquisition from Hungary of the highly productive provinces of 
Banat, Batchka, and Baranya (combined under the name of Voivo- 
dina) has not made it possible for Yugoslavia to produce an export- 
able surplus greater than the pre-war surplus of the old Kingdom of 
Serbia. The explanation is that at the same time that Yugoslavia 
acquired the surplus-producing Voivodina, she also acquired those 
large deficient districts to the west which formerly drew their food 
supplies from Hungary through the agency of merchants (usually 
banks) in Vienna and Budapest. These western districts must 
now be supplied directly from the newly acquired surplus districts 
in the East. 
• There are many sources of error in Table 126 and the final 
figure for the surplus may be too low. It is certain that other 
things being equal in good years, the exportable surplus probably 
will rise to two and even more times the amount indicated. How- 
ever, the splitting up of the large estates in Voivodina and Croatia 
which may permanently reduce the production of wheat will tend to 
partially offset any possible underestimate of the surplus. 
Table 127 corresponding to Table 126 gives the hypothetical wheat 
and rye balance for Yugoslavia in 1921: 
Table 127. — Wheat and rye balance in Yugoslavia, 1921. 
Population 
1921. 
Norm 
per 
capita 
food 
require- 
ment. 
Production of wheat and rye. 
Food 
require- 
ment. 
Popula- 
tion 
X norm. 
Surplus 
District. 
Gross. 
Seed. 
Net. 
( + )or 
deficit 
(-)• 
2,655,078 
1, 474, 560 
1,380,413 
Bushels. 
2.25 
2.77 
4.03 
1,000 
bushels. 
11, 124 
6,011 
13,611 
1,000 
bushels. 
3,056 
1,545 
3,750 
1,000 
bushels. 
8,068 
4,466 
9,861 
1,000 
bushels. 
5,974 
4,084 
5,563 
1,000 
bushels. 
+2,094 
+3S2 
+4,298 
total 
Subtotal and 
surplus 
5,510,051 
30,746 
8,351 
22,395 
15,621 
+6,774 
1,085,174 
199, 857 
621, 4^9 
2,710, K83 
1,889,929 
6.13 
2.77 
6.13 
6.13 
2.77 
3,554 
175 
589 
18,712 
3, 846 
610 
47 
199 
2,9S4 
9s ."I 
2,944 
128 
390 
16,728 
t, 861 
6,652 
55i 
3,809 
16,618 
5,235 
-3,708 
-426 
-3,419 
-890 
-2,374 
total 
Subtotal and 
deficit 
6,507,272 
12,017,323 
26,876 
57,622 
4,825 
13,176 
22,051 
44,446 
32,868 
is. 189 
-10,817 
Total for country and net 
-4,043 
Less one-balf of estimated 
-1,709 
-2,334 
1 * 
1 
1 Including New Serbia. 
» Including New Macedonia. 
» Banat, Batchka,and Baranya. 
* Including Blavonia and Mcdjmurjo. 
* including Herzegovina. 
