Personal subsidiary plots as a tool for sustainable development and overcoming the crisis in the agriculture

Abstract

Personal subsidiary plots still occupy a significant place in the production of agricultural products. Having appeared in the 1930s as an auxiliary tool for agrarian policy in the conduct of collectivization, over the next years they have shown their resilience in the face of crisis phenomena in the economy. The purpose of the study is to determine the factors influencing the development of private household plots, taking into account the political and economic characteristics of the country’s agricultural management. Within the framework of this study, the following tasks were solved: - a detailed analysis of the political and economic situation in the country was carried out; - analyzed the data of the household books of the settlement for the period 1935-2019; - statistical processing of the research results was carried out; - the regularities of the development of private household plots in the study period were revealed. As a result of the study, it was revealed that when signs of a crisis in the economy appear, rural residents to a greater extent transfer their business activities to personal subsidiary plots, using them as a tool of survival. When the crisis ends, business activity moves back to large agricultural or industrial production.