The Problem of the Withering Away of the Collective Farmer's Personal Farm Plot

Abstract

The steady development of the productive forces of socialist society provides the foundation for a gradual increase in the level of socialization of collective farm production, and approximation of the cooperative property of the collective farms to general public property One of the characteristic aspects of this process is the withering away of the personal farm plot of the collective farmers, which is gradually losing its significance. As indicated at the 21st Congress of the CPSU, the communal production carried out on the collective farms is coming ever tncreasingly to embrace all the branches of agriculture. As a result, the collective farmers' requirements not only for grain, but for milk, meat, butter, potatoes, vegetables, and fruits are being ever increasingly satisfied not out of their personal garden plots, where yield is low in terms of the labor expended, but out of the produce of the more economical common collective farm endeavors.