The Problem of Organization of Yugoslav Agriculture. After the second World War, the Yugoslav Government took a number of steps to reorganize agriculture. The first, was enactment of the Law of August 23, 1945 concerning land reform. This act introduced the partition of land, by which 47 % was attributed to individual peasants and 53 % to the socialist sector which the Government intented to establish. The socialist sector encompassed two organizational forms : State farms and agricultural cooperatives; the latter were divided into general agricultural cooperatives and peasant working cooperatives. However, limitating of private ownership of land to 10 ha introduced in 1953, led to the excessive fragmentation of farms with all its negati...