Post-war reconstruction: agriculture

Russian agriculture had been devastated by the war, leading to the destruction of:

• 98,000 collective farms
• 137,000 tractors
• 49,000 combine harvesters
• 7 million horses
• 17 million cattle
• 20 million pigs
• 27 million sheep

On top of this

• Food production was at 60% of the 1940 level
• Only…