Khrushchev: Agricultural Policies
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- Khrushchev: Agricultural Policies
- Why did Khrushchev improve agriculture?
- To increase food production
- Grain stocks and livestock populations were lower than in Tsarist times
- Collectivisation was not working
- Farms had to pay high taxes and received low wages for their produce
- Failures of the Centrally Planned Economy
- Khrushchev through the controlled economy under Gosplan had taken away local initiative and independence
- Khrushchev wanted to reduce control and allow local leaders to decide agricultural policy
- Khrushchev believed that he was an agricultural expert
- He had an agricultural / peasant background
- To increase food production
- Khrushchev's reforms
- Aim: To encourage peasants to produce more
- Peasants were paid more for grain
- Taxes on peasants were reduced
- The amount of grain requisitioned was reduced
- More was left for the peasants to sell for profit
- Aim: To increase efficiency
- Tractor stations were disbanded and tractors were sold to state farms
- Peasants worked harder to buy tractors to be able to produce more grain
- Collective farms were merged to create larger fams
- The Ministry of Agriculture was moved away from Moscow
- Regionalisation
- He wanted regions to have greater self control as they knew their area better than Moscow
- Regionalisation
- Tractor stations were disbanded and tractors were sold to state farms
- The Virgin Lands Scheme
- In the first three years, 36 million hectares of new land was cultivated
- Young komsomols were send into the countryside to work this land
- 100,000 tractors were provided
- Successes
- Agricultural output increased
- 1949-1953: 80 million tonnes
- 1954-1958: 110 million tonnes
- Agricultural output increased
- Failures
- Very little of the soil was suitable for farming
- No new housing was built for the komsomols and no funding had been allocated for building
- Led to overcrowding in small peasant villages
- Many Soviet officials saw the scheme as an excuse to get rid of orphans, vagrants, alcoholics and criminals
- New farms lacked skilled workers
- Skilled farmers had to be bribed by the government to help
- New farms lacked skilled workers
- Equiptment
- By 1959, there was only one tractor for every two hundred hectares of arable land
- When they broke down there were insufficient parts to fix them
- There was a lack of grain storage
- Thousands of hectares of grain were left to rot in the fields
- By 1959, there was only one tractor for every two hundred hectares of arable land
- 1963: Russia had to import 20 million tonnes of grain from the USA and Australia
- Aim: To encourage peasants to produce more
- Why did Khrushchev improve agriculture?
- 1953: Agriculture production was low
- Khrushchev: Agricultural Policies
- Why did Khrushchev improve agriculture?
- To increase food production
- Grain stocks and livestock populations were lower than in Tsarist times
- Collectivisation was not working
- Farms had to pay high taxes and received low wages for their produce
- Failures of the Centrally Planned Economy
- Khrushchev through the controlled economy under Gosplan had taken away local initiative and independence
- Khrushchev wanted to reduce control and allow local leaders to decide agricultural policy
- Khrushchev believed that he was an agricultural expert
- He had an agricultural / peasant background
- To increase food production
- Khrushchev's reforms
- Aim: To encourage peasants to produce more
- Peasants were paid more for grain
- Taxes on peasants were reduced
- The amount of grain requisitioned was reduced
- More was left for the peasants to sell for profit
- Aim: To increase efficiency
- Tractor stations were disbanded and tractors were sold to state farms
- Peasants worked harder to buy tractors to be able to produce more grain
- Collective farms were merged to create larger fams
- The Ministry of Agriculture was moved away from Moscow
- Regionalisation
- He wanted regions to have greater self control as they knew their area better than Moscow
- Regionalisation
- Tractor stations were disbanded and tractors were sold to state farms
- The Virgin Lands Scheme
- In the first three years, 36 million hectares of new land was cultivated
- Young komsomols were send into the countryside to work this land
- 100,000 tractors were provided
- Successes
- Agricultural output increased
- 1949-1953: 80 million tonnes
- 1954-1958: 110 million tonnes
- Agricultural output increased
- Failures
- Very little of the soil was suitable for farming
- No new housing was built for the komsomols and no funding had been allocated for building
- Led to overcrowding in small peasant villages
- Many Soviet officials saw the scheme as an excuse to get rid of orphans, vagrants, alcoholics and criminals
- New farms lacked skilled workers
- Skilled farmers had to be bribed by the government to help
- New farms lacked skilled workers
- Equiptment
- By 1959, there was only one tractor for every two hundred hectares of arable land
- When they broke down there were insufficient parts to fix them
- There was a lack of grain storage
- Thousands of hectares of grain were left to rot in the fields
- By 1959, there was only one tractor for every two hundred hectares of arable land
- 1963: Russia had to import 20 million tonnes of grain from the USA and Australia
- Aim: To encourage peasants to produce more
- Why did Khrushchev improve agriculture?
- Khrushchev partly blamed with on Stalin's methods of controlling agriculture
- Khrushchev: Agricultural Policies
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