* 7 -. 
p roduction and Exports of "fru i t Othe r than Prune s 
A large number of fruits, Including plums, apples, pears, cherries, 
peaches, apricots, currants, auince, oranges, fi^s sod dates, are grown • 
in Yugoslavia but prunes are by far trie most important. Out of the total 
number of 73, 511, OX) fruit trees in 1927-28, plum trees constituted 67 
per cent. The next most important were apples with only 10 per cent of 
the total number or trees. Considerable attention is now being devoted 
by the government to the expansion of fruit production other than plums, 
with particular reference to the export market. 
The follovin^ table jiives the exports of fresh and dried fruits 
other than plums from Yugoslavia during the years 1920 to 1923: 
YUGOSLAVIA: Exports of f raits other than plums and prunes 
ear 
?resh fruits 
: Dried fruits 
- Walnut s 
in the 
shell 
Apples 
Pears 
Cherries 
Grapes 
Apples : 
: and : Cherries 
. pears : 
Pounds 
Pounds 
: Pounds 
Pounds 
Pounds : Pounds 
Founds 
9,388,255 
34,361 
3/ 
56, 682 
u/ 22,460: a/ 
3,135,607 
4,975,255 
171,410 
32,203 
393,947 
8,074,652:1,370,215 
3,035,333 
1,519,545 
76o,oC3 
20,042. 
234 , 184 
1,410,151: 267,076 
1,585,476 
24, V 53, 229 
448,411 
11? ,256 
724,584 
l,116,092:l,027,o37 
2,531,721 
11,7967078 
284,098 
110,717 
• 168,641 
1,004,226: 975,692 
6,615,458 
:42,936 
60^,067 
72,08^: 
231,829. 
a/ : 1,402, 860. 
610,124:1,863,590 
574 , 334 
48,287,160 
899, 4 io. 
109,108: 
572,063 
5, 4o 0,5 10 
04,4;.9,474 
1,548,546. 
723 , 177 : 
3,003,578 
1,90 1,931:2,066,753: 
12,928,015 
22,237,247 
3,840,559 
1,047,428: 
2,321,669. 
o,26o,71?:l,290,284: 
6,430,436 
Statistique du Commerce Exterieur du Royoume des Serbes, Creates et Slovenes 
a/ Sot given separately. b/ Pears only, a., pies not t iven separately 
Dis t ri but ion of Prune Producing; Areas 
gpsnlgn_and_^erbian di st ri ct^ 
Ihe Yugoslav commercial prune growing areas may be divided roughly 
into two districts, the Serbian and the Bosnian. The producing areas are 
found mainly in a region bisected by the Drina river running from the south 
to the north and flowing into the S^ve river. Serbia is on the east side 
or the Drina and Bosnia on the west. The Save riv^r, runnin ( fTOfli the 
'"est to the east and flowing into the Danube at Belgrade, roughly bounds 
the Bosnia and Serbian prune growing areas on the north. 8s definite 
