Increasing the Productivity of Labor in Agriculture

Abstract

The Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to the Twenty-fifth Party Congress states that in order to resolve the diverse economic and social problems confronting the nation, "there is no other avenue except the rapid growth of labor productivity and a sharp increase in the effectiveness of all social production." This proposition has special significance for agriculture. In agriculture higher labor productivity must account for the entire increase in agricultural output, and moreover, the predominant part of this increase must be made in the social sector. Between 1961 and 1965 it created 94% of the total increase in gross agricultural output, compared with 85% between 1966 and 1970 and 100% between 1971 and 1974.