Positive results of the reorganization of farming in regions with large reservoirs

Abstract

1. When the farms which must be abandoned when the reservoir is constructed are completely restored with the costs charged to the construction of the U st-Ilimsk hydroelectric power plant, the agricultural production will have a better organizational and economical basis. This will enable the farming enterprises to produce with less loss of time and provide the means to solve the new problems confronting agriculture as the region is more and more industrialized. 2. This situation is characteristic of reservoirs that are to be built in thinly populated regions where the agricultural holdings are situated in river valleys. Such regions are, for example, the catchment areas of the Boguchany and Nizhne-Ob' hydroelectric power plant reservoirs. 3. To be able to determine the efficiency of hydraulic construction with reliable security it is necessary to compare the plans of reorganization of farming under the existing conditions and under the conditions following reservoir construction. 4. To eliminate the drawbacks in planning to provide the measures for restoring the agricultural production under the new conditions and for using the reservoirs in the interest of agriculture it is necessary to work out a general method of determining the loss inflicted on farming when reservoirs are built and a method of making up for this so that the agricultural production is restored and that the compensation investments for farming are profitable.