摘要：About 11.00% of the total Yugoslav population live in the Mediterranean legion of the country. In the geographical, economical and cultural respect this region is very heterogeneous. In this article the author considers the process of differentiation of agricultural households according to professional orientation of their youth members and active persons. According to the first criterion there are three groups of households: (1) households with no youth members at all, (2) households that school all their youth members, and (3) households that keep their successors (37%). Chaiacteristics oi the first group of households are: a) average age of members about 60 years, b) average number of members is two, c) in comparison with the other two groups it has the smallest number of members employed out of agriculture, d) deserted members surpass the rate of natural increase in the last two decades, e) in comparison with the other two groups of households it has the highest share of pasture land and orchards in the structure of agricultural land it owns, f) relatively it has the smallest number of cattle. Characteristics of the second group of households are: a) average number of members is about five, b) relatively it has the highest number of members employed out of agriculture;Characteristics of the third group of households: a) average number of members is about six, b) it keeps one, two or more successors on the farm, c) relatively it has the highest share of vineyards in the structure of agricultural land. The author comes to the conclusion that demographic changes, caused by the migration of agricultural population, definitely influence the production orientation of households. According to the second criterion there are two groups of households: agricultural ones (44%) and mixed or part-time ones (56%). In comparison with the other regions of the country the number of part-time farms in this region is higher and one such household has more members and the number of part-time households will grow faster. There are no big differences in the size of farm between these two groups of households in this region which indicates the fact that part-time farms are evenly represented in all size categories of farms. This is not the case in other regions of the country. Production orientation is different too: for the first group cattle-breeding and for the second group poultry-farming. Agricultural holdings are stronger market producers than the Dart-time ones, but according to the value of the total production there are interesting differences: in economically more developed parts of the region it is higher in agricultural holdings and in less developed parts of the region situation is reverse.
