Individual Sector Socialized Sector
Collective
Farms
I=] Pod
3
2 £
o £ 4 = 3
2d, 82 Re g 4
ipkdg ox , 2
tips BE 2 OF 3
cES3: $5 £ 8 &
LAM am Ml < O
-(in rubles)- -
05 06. 07 36 42 112
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Region and Product
Central Volga—
Spring wheat
Siberia—
Spring wheat ....... 05 0%
Central Black Soil—
Winter rye .n 0.8 0.6 0.7 1.8 26 33
Northern Caucasus—
Winter wheat ......... 08 0.8 1.1 8.5 8.7 6.6
Thus the limitations of petty production, its unprofitableness,
is revealed with sufficient clarity as compared
with the great possibilities of large-scale farmng
in the form of collective and state farms.
VII
The process of industrialization of the national
.conomy of the U. S. S. R. has considerably increased
the demand for agricultural machinery and, consequently,
the importation of the more complicated
machinery from the countries of Western Europe and
America. This has led to the quantity of agricultural
machines and tools employed in agriculture mounting
steadily from year to year. The value of agricultural
machines and tools on all farms amounted to 988 million
rubles in 1926-27 and to 1,404 million rubles in
1929-30: The amount required to supply additional
machinery for agriculture in 1930-31 is estimated at
about one billion rubles.
There has simultaneously taken place a considerable
development of agricultural cooperation. The spread
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