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buckwheat or maize? ultimately, potatoes!

Graph 7. Field crops and arable land in Serbia (in %)
Source: Sundhaussen 1989, 246.

Graph 8. Maize crop in Serbia, 1867-1910
Source: Sundhaussen, 1989, 258.
the enlargement of the Serbian state, as it gradually expanded into the for-
mer territory of the Ottoman Empire. Therefore, the surfaces dedicated to
maize kept increasing, as did maize production (Graph 8). Productivity or
yield per hectare kept increasing most rapidly until the end of the 1880s,

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