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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 _ FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY JPRS L/9854 17 July 1981 USSR Re ort p AGRICULTURE (FOUO 4/81) FBIS FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMA~'ION SERVICE FOR Ok'FICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 NOTE JPRS publications contain information primarily from foreign newspapers, periodicals and books, but also from news agency transmissions and broadcasts. Materials from foreign-language sources are translated; those from English-language sources are transcribed or reprinted, with the original phrasing and other characteristics retained. Headlines, editorial reports, and material enclosed in brackets are supplied by JPRS. Processing indicators such as [TextJ or [Excerpt] in the first line cf e~ch item, or following the last line of a brief, indicate how the original information was processed. 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APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 FOR OFFiCIr~ ~ JPRS L/9854 17 July 1981 USSR REPORT AGRICULTURE (FOUO 4/81) CONTENTS AGRO-ECONONIICS AND ORGANIZATION Interrelationships of Private F7.ots ~Fith Public Sector I}iscussed (G. I. Shmelev; VOPROSY EKONOM[KI, May 81) 1 Long 'Term Credit for Agriculture Advocated (V. V. Kochkaxev; VOPROSY EKONOMIKI~ Apr 81) 12 TII,LING AND CROPPING TECHNOZOGY - Chemical Applications in Agriculture During Eleventh F`ive-Year Plan (V. G. Mineyev; DOKLADY VASK~INIZ, May 81) 21 _ a _ [III - USSR - 7 FOUO] FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00854R400404030035-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ( . AGRO-L~CONO~MICS AND ORGANIZATION INTSRREIATIONSHIPS OF PRIVATE PLOTS WITH PUBLIC SECTOR DISCUSSED Moscow VOPROSY ERONOMIKI in Russian No 5, May 81 pp 66-74 [Article by G.I. Shmelev, doctor of economic sciences and head of a sector at the Institute of Economics of the World Socialist Syarem of the USSR Academy of ~ Sciencea: "Public Production and the Private Sector"] [Text] Under aocf.aliem, a cloae link exiats between public and private ownerat~~ip. Socialiat ownership of the meana of production and tae nature of aesociating a worker with the meana of production determine the relationehipe in diatribution, production, exchange and conaumption at all levels in the reproduction procesa in the national economy. Public ownerahip of the principal means of production under socialism, through the diatribution syetem, forma private ownerahip of consumer goods. The LPKh [lichnoye podzobnoye khozyaystvo; private aectorJ ie a componeat element aYid a apecial type of privete ownerahip under socialism. The eocialiet nature of the LPKh is determined by the socialiet praduction relationshipe and by the participation of the LPKh in the reproduction of vital reeourcea and the income of workera in public production and in the creation of an all-state fund for food products. In connection with the entrance of our country int~ the period of a developed socialist society and the convereion of a ntember of Buropean countries SEMA. member states over to the construction of developed eocialism raiaes the need for a theoretical interpretation and evaluation of the conformit~? of these and other categories and forms of production to the new historic conditions. This applies fully to the private sector. 1'he experience of the Soviet Union and other socialist countries reveals that, during the atagQ of conetructing a developed socialist socfety and in addition to atrengthening the logietical base of the public aector of agriculture, an active program should be carried out eimed at eupporting the private plots and increasi~cg their production. If the public sector of production in agriculture in a partic~lar country ie well developed, it will be better able to furnish assistance to the LPRh a~nd exert influence upon it. The LPKh supplements the public aector of production. The agricultural productive fixed capital of the LPRh, at the beginning of 1980, amounte~3 to 4.9 percent of all agricultural productiv~ fixed capiCal (in canparable pricea of 1973). In delivering his report before the 26th CP3U Congress, L.I. Brezhnev noted: "The kolkhozes and sovkhozea have been and continue to be the foundation for socialist agriculture. But by no meane is thie meant to imply that the potential of the 1 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE (1NLY private plots is to be neglect.d. Experience testifies to the fact that such plots can provide substantial ass+.stance in the production of ineat, milk and certain other products. The orchards, gardens, poultry and livestock which belong - to the workers represent a portion of our overall wealti?." During this particular stage in the development of the procluctive forcea of society, the establishment of large-scale national economic complexes and the studying of the interrelationships existing within these comple~ea require that the LPKh be viewed as a necessary part of the country's agroindustrial complex. The country's food program, w~ich was developed based upon a decision handed down by the Politburo of the CC CPSU add which must place in action all of the reserves available for improving food security, must necessarily include the LPKh. The relationahips between the public and private sectors is dependent upon the development of the productive forces of agriculture. A considerable proportion of products is produced in the LPKh, the production of which is more labor-consuming and mechanized to a lesser degree. During the post-war period, the production of _ grain on the private plots almost ceased (in 1940, theae plots accounted for 12 percent of the overall grain production). ~n field crop husbandry, a considerable contribution was made by the I~ith in fruit production, potato production and in the - production of vegetables (in 1979, approximately 60 percent of the potatoes and 42 percent of the fruit and berries were produced in the LPKh). In animal husbandry, a substantial proportion was contribuCed by the LP'Kh in swine production, poultry production, goat raising and rabbit breeding. In 197:' the LPKh accounted for approximately 96 percent of the rabbit meat, roughly 40 pei�cent of the pork, mutton, goat's meat and poultry me~t, 33 percent of the horse m~iat, 27 percent of the reindeer and camel meat and 17 percent of the beef and v~al. It is from a regional atandpoint that the dffferences in the production atructure between the public sector and the LPKh stand uut most clearly. Thus, in Eatonia approximately 94 percent of all of the wool is produced in the LPKh and only 6 percent by the kolkhozes and sovkhozes. In Belorussia the LPKh accounts for roughly 4 percent of the wool produced in the republic and Che remainder in the public aectnr. In Moldavia, Azerbaijar~ and Armenia republics having large ~ specialized farms for intensive highly co~norical horticulture the kolkhozes and sovkhozes account for 70-75 percent of the groae yield of fruits and berries. The situation is just tho opposite in Belorussia and the Baltic republics. Here the larger portion of these products (85-90 percent) ia produced on Che private plots of the population. The state procurementa of aurplus fruita and berries grown in the LPKh of these republics exceeds to a considerable degree their production volume in - the public sector: in Beloruss~,a by a factor of 4, in Lithuania 5.5 and in Latvia by a factor of 3.5. The private plots serve as the principal source for supplying the local population with such products, the production of which in the public aector in these or other rayone is liroited by the natural-climaCic and other conditions. The output of products per unit of space in the LPRh, owing to great labor expenditures, is subetantially h:~gher in a number of instancesroximatelth45puercent sector. For example, in Belorussia the LPKh accounted for app y P - of all of the fruit and berry plantations in the republic and yet in 1977 their gross yield of fruit and berries exceeded by ~ factor of 12 Che amounta obtained in the public sector; the LPRh in Latvia ~bCained a fruit and berry harvest that exceeded by roughly a factor of 10 the amount obtained from the same area at 2 FOR OFFICIAL USL ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400430035-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ko~khozes and sovkhozes. Subatantial differences in the p�roduction structure for the LPKh, cau8ed by natural-climatic conditions, professional skills and national traditions in nutrition, have been noted for individual republics and regions. For - example, in the case of ineat production, the largest proportion of beef and veal in the private aector is produced in the Uzbek and Turkmen SSR's (approxiaiately 73 and 59 percent respectively and for the country as a whole roughly 26 percent), mutton in the Tadzhik SSR (41 percent, for the cour,try 7.4 percent), pork in the BSSR (roughly 80 percent and for the country 46 percent). - The accounting in agrarian policies of the proportiona existing i~~ production between the public sector and the LPKh promotea improvements in Che aupply of food goods and the achievement of a balance in the population's nutrition. Production - in the LPKh is less commerical than in the public aector~and the fo~d products are more adaptable to the personal requirements of the owners and to the national traditions of the local population. The social structure of the owners of private plots is complicated. They consist _ mainly of kolkhoz membera and sovkhoz workera; individual private plots are also ~ operated by the manual and office workers of non-agricultural enterprisea and institutes ia citiea and villages and eleo by penaionere; manual and office worker~ engaging iii horticulture and gardening conatitute a large and special group. The dynamics of those engaged in the LPKh, in terma of their social affiliation, che~~;. in conformity with a change taking place in the social atructure of society and in _ the agrarian policies of the atate. In recent yeara, among thoee persona opexat-ing - private plots, a decrease hae taken place ~n the numbe~ of kolkhoz membera while the number of manual and office workere has increased. Thia ie partly associated with the tranaformation of a number of kolkhozea and eovkhozes, with the creation of interfarm and agroindustrial formatione and also with the transfer of many kolkhoz membera over to working in other branchea of the national economy. In addition, it is associated with an expanaion in collective horticulture and gardening by manual and office workera, ae a uaeful activity encouraged by the 8tate. Whereas prior to the war the majority of the private plota were operated by kolkhoz members, today manuel and office workers and other population groupa predoIDinate as operators ~f private plota. Thi~ circumstance has been taken into account in the new USSR Conatitution. In the 1Q36 USSR Constitution, use was made of the term "private plot of a kolkhoz meober" and in the present USSR Conetitution "private plot of a citizen." The latter reflecte the actual chaiiges in the social structure of private plot ownera. In the USSR at the presen.t time, the private plote are operated by 13 million familiea of kolkhoz members, more than 10 million familiea of sovkhoz workera and roughly by the same number of faanilies of manuel and office workera of other branches of the national economy. The advances ac6levad in the social atructure of private plot owners have brought about cbangea in the proportion of individual. groups of the population in the production of groee agricultural output. The proportion of manual and office workers associated with euch output is on the order of 50 percent and for eome products it even exceeds thie level. The proportion of _ manual and office worker private plots amounta to approximately 52 percent in the production of fruits and berries and approximately 56 percent in the production of 3 FaR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ' sheep and goa[ raising produc[s . In tbe RSFSR. F~zal~l~st~�. A.pc:~xt ix~~, l.xt. ta, A r.n~nia and Bstonia tha proportion oi kolkhoa members oparatiug private plots ia less than the proportion of manual and of�ice warkers and other groups of the population. The maximum norms for the private plota and the production volumea for the private plots of kolkhoz members are higher than those for eovkhaz workers~and they differ in particular when compared te the production volume and atructure of the private ~ plots city residents (per yard or family). At the present time, the average size of a private plot of a kolkhoz member is 0.31 hectares, of roanual and office workers in rural areas 0.17 hectares (including sovkhoz workers 0.21 hectares and manual and office ~iorkers in cities 0.07 hectares). However, Che sverage size and the number of li~vestuck for the private plots of kolkhoz membera are lagging substantially behind the maximum permissible norms established in the Mode~ Regulations for a Kolkhoz. Differences also exist between the public and private sectors in connection with the age and sex structure of the workers. For ~xample, in 1978, the number of males of able-bodied age at kolkho~es accounted for one half of all labor expenditures and in the private sector only approximately 20 percent. The proportion of labor expenditures for �~aomen of pension s~ge at kolkhozes did not reach 3 percent and in the private economy it amounted to almoat one fourt~i of all labor expenditurea. A considerable proportion of the labor expenditures in the prieate economy wera accounted for by those who, because of family circumstances or reasons of health (mothers ~n familiea of rural workere having young cbildren and invalids) or age (juveniles, elderly people), are unable to participate in public production and also by those for whom the private plota serve ae a m~ans for continuing work at the end of the working day in tha public sector. Thus the private sector ia expanding the sphere of participation by the population in productiv~ labor and in the creation of a national economic fund for agricultural products. The ratio for the praduction of agricultural products in the public and private sectors does not remain stationary. Ra~io for Production of Agricultural Producta in Public and Private Sectors (in comparable prices of 1973; for country as e whole; in Output of Output of Public Farms Private Plots 1960 64.4 35.6 1965 67.5 32.5 _ 1910 70.3 29.7 1975 71.7 28.3 1979 73.5 26.5 It is apparent from Che cited data that the proportion of private plot output is constantly decreasing (in 1960 it exceeded by one third Che gross output of agriculture and in 1979 it already amounted to roughly one fourth). However, this is not meant to imply that the private plota cannot keep the population supplied with food producta, since notwithstanding the reduction in the proportion contributed by such farms to grosa agricultural output, their output volum~ has on 4 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407142/09: CIA-RDP82-00854R000440030035-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY ~ the whole increased. In 1978 and compared to the 1961-1965 period, production on the private plots (in comparable prices) increased by 13.7 percent, including crop husbandry output by 26.5 and animal husbandry output by 8 percent. Moreover, the amount of land assigned for use by the population changed very little over the past 20 years. The reduction in the proportion contributed by the private plots to groas agricultural output occurred as a reault of higher rates of growth for kolkhoz snd sovkhoz production (compared to private plot production) and not sa a result of a reduction in the volume of production on farms of the population. Kolkhoz members, sovkhoz workers an~i rural pensioners obtain the principal bulic _f such vitally important food products as meat, milk, eggs, fruit, berries, vegetables and potatoes from the private plots. In particular, a high proportion of auch products is obtained from the private plots of kolkhoz members. In 1977, the private plots (not counting the pr~+ducts purchased on the k~lkhoz markets) supplied them with 72 percent of the meat consumed, 76 percent of the milk and almost all of - the potatoes and eggs. Moreover, it should be borne in mind that the system of public catering in the rural are8s, which functiong within the framework of - consumer cooperation, is supported almost exclusively by means of procurements from private plots. The kolkhoz roarket and intra-village trade, where the products of private plota are also sold for the most part, Flay an impor^ant role wlth regard to supplying in the rural areas with food gooda. - The development of specialization in publlc production is promoting an increase in the importance of the private sector for supplying diverae food producta for the familiea of rural residents. As a result of the increasing level of specialization in public production, almost one fourth of the country's kolkhozes did not maintain - swine during 1980, more than 50 percent of the kolkhozes did not have sheep or goats (in Belorussia, Lithuania and Estonia, awine were lacking on 90 percent of the farms), 64 percent of all of tha kolkhozea did not breed poultry (in the nonchernozem zone of the RSFSR, Belorusaia, Georgia and Lithuania, 30-97 percent of the kolkhozes did not breed poultry). Thus the private plots continue to be the principal aource for supplying kolkhoz membere with the products of these branches of animal husbandry. While supplying the rural population with food products, rhe private plots are at the aame time creating the conditions required for maintaining a high proportion of sales to the state of producte produced in the public eector (at kolkhozes, sovkhozes and so forth). The private sector participates diractly in the reproduction of agricultural output, in the public sector through the eale of a considerable number of young livestock to the kolkhoaes and sovkhozes for subsequent fattening and also a portion of ita eeed potatoea and vegetables. The private sector repreaenCs an important source for delivering preducta to the country's food fund through the kolkhoz market and conaumer cooperation. The proportion of marketable producta comp~red to the overall ~olume of production ~n farms of the population is indeed conaiderable. In 1979 thie proportion amounted to 34 percent for vegetables, 37 for meat, approximately 17 for potatoes and 14 percenC for eggs and milk. Moreover, 47 percent of the potatoea, 43 percent of the vegetables , 42 percent of the meat, approximately 80 percent of the milk, 40 percent of the eggs and more than 90 percent of the wool eold by farms of the ~opulation were sold as state procurements and not on the kolkhoz market. State procurements constitute a considerable proportion of the gross output of the private sector. 5 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407142/09: CIA-RDP82-00854R000440030035-6 FOR G'FFICIAL USE ONLY Proportion of State Procurements of Overall Output Produced on Private Plots (in 1940 1950 1960 1965 1970 1975 1979 Potatoes 6.9 4.1 3.2 4.8 2.9 4.8 8.0 Vegetables 1.6 2.4 5.5 6.9 8.6 8.8 15.0 ~at 14.7 12.1 19.4 20.0 32.6 30.4 15.7 riiik 8.9 14.0 ~.5 6.0 5.0 10.0 10.0 gggs 21.7 10.6 10.9 13.8 9.4 8.9 5.7 Based upon the above table, it is apparent that a reduction took place during the 1960-1979 period in state procureme~ts of animal huabandry products from private plots (with the exception of milk) an~l that an increase took place in the procurements of vegetables and potatoes,. These changes occurred owing to the _ improvements realized in the branch structture of the private sector. For example, duri:~g the Seventh Five-Year P1$n the propa.rtion of animal husbandry products in the private sector amounted to 69.2 percent, during the Ninth Five-Year Plan 66.5 and during the Tenth Five-Year Plan it decreased Co 65.8 percent. This trend came about owing to improvements in the culture of farming on the privste plota and a substantial increase in the number of manual and office workera engaged in collective horticulture and gardening and also by a reduction in the number of animals being maintained by the population. Special importance is attached to the kolkhoz market with regard to supplying the population with food gooda and developing the private sector. More than 5,900 municipal k~lkhoz markets, numbering almoat 1.5 million trade poinCs, are in operation throughout the country. In addition, there are a large number of _ temporarily active markets whir_h have not been registered officially and an intra- village market, where a considerable proportion af the output is sold (in a number - of republics, the sales for some products at theae markets at times exceed the sales volume at municipal markets). In 1980, 7.4 billion rubles worth of products (in 1975 5.2 billion rubles worth) were sold on the kolkhoz (non-village) market. Its proportion in the sale of food gooda to the population, in identical prices for all types of trade, amounts to approximately 5 percent. The diviaion of labor between the public and private sectors in the sphere of production is supplemented by the division of labor in the sphere of circulation. The kolkhoz market is a component part of the national ecanomic food agroinduatrial complex and is a necessary partner in the public sector, since the latter, owing to an insufficiently developed logistical base for the procurement, storage, processing and sale of food products, cannot aell all of its output to the private sector. The variety of producta available on the kolkhoz market supplements substantially the product s~ructure of state trade. F~r example, in 1978 cabbage constitutad 41 percent of the vegetable sales in state and cooperative trade and on the kolkhoz market only 13 percent. At the present time, the public sector is incapable of expanding the production of all typea of agric~altural products, especially the labor-consuming crops which require great expenditures for mechanization, to the scalea capable of satisfying the requirements of the population. Thus support is required for all types of 6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2407/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400430035-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY - agricultural production. The functioning of the private sector involves achieving solutions not only for problems of a production-organizational, economic and legal nature but also for socio-psychological and cultural-domestic problema which go beyond the limits of this sector. The normal development of the private sector requires that it receive support from the kolkhozes, sovkhozes and state on the whole. Thus the agrarian policies of the CPSU are aimed at further developing and strengthening the linlcs between public production and the private sector and establiahing effective forms for interaction between them. In the process, it should be borne in mind that tlie private sector will retain for many more years its important role of supplying food gooda. The imp~rtance of the private sector is mentioned in the USSR Constitution. It was also stressed during the November (1g78) Plenum of the CC CPSU. "The potential of the subaidiary farms of nlants and factories and also of the private plots of the rural population is still being used to only a weak degree" emphasized L.I. Brezhnev in a speecE~ delivered before the November (1978) Plenum of the CC CPSU, "We have adopted decreea dealing with these mattera a~d yet they are atill being carried out only slowly. More asaiatance muat be furnished to these farms in acquiring milk and in supplying feed. A requirement also exists for creating a - definite social climate in which the kolkhoz membera and sovkhoz workera would feel that they are performing useful etate work by raising liveetock and poultry at home." The difference exiating between the public and private sectors assumes an expansi.on and strengthening of mutually advantageoua relationshipa between them. In recent years, new and effective forma have been developed for produ~tion-trade cooperation and integration among all types of farma. In the fra~ernal socialist countries, particularly in the VNR [Hungarian People's RepubllcJ, cooperative contacta between the public and private sectors are being expanded on a contractual (multi-year) basis. Special interest is being diaplayed in their higheat forme, in which the long-term contractual links embrace not only the sphere of production supply for the private farms and the marketing of their products, but are also extended for production purposes, thus defining a change in the technology for and the organization of lebox on the private farma. Theae contacts, by bringing together in the reproduction process the public and privaCe meana of production, are prcmoting an improvement in the level of socialization of production and labor on the private plota. In the VNR, the peasant farma, based upon contractual arrangemente between them and SRhPK's [agricultural producers' cooperative], are being aupplied with young stock for fattening, feed, bedding and veterinary servicea. The cooperative guarantees a market for their producta, defines the production technology and the achedulea for delivering the products and it promotes high quality and greater production volumes. The SKhPK computea for the members the number of working days completed on the private plots based upon the contracte. They are presented with preferential credit for production purpoaea. Private plot comaitteea function wititin the cooperative~ for the purpose of coordinating all aolutiona for problems associated with the activities of the pr:.vate plots. In many of the Hungarian cooperatives, a private plot is managed as a separate, specialized subunit (branch) of the public sector of _ 7 FOR OFFICIAL U~E ONLY APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00850R000400030035-6 APPROVED FOR RELEASE: 2007/02/09: CIA-RDP82-00854R400404030035-6 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY the cooperative. This subunit (which specislizes, for example, in swine raising or vegetable production) has its own management snd its own agricultural machines, transport vehic~eg and implements. The branch develops on a pla