Each year the USSR State Bank grants collective farms more and more short-term and long-term credits so that they can create fixed and working capital, meet seasonal production requirements, and realize their expanded agricultural reproduction aims. Short-term credits granted to collective farms amounted to 4.3 billion rubles a year in the Seventh Five-Year Plan and 8.7 billion rubles in the Eighth Five-Year Plan. In the Ninth Five-Year Plan this sum almost doubled and averaged 16.9 billion rubles. In two years of the current five-year plan it amounted to 21.1 billion rubles. The volume of long-term credits granted for capital investments between 1964 and 1978 increased 3.7 times and equaled 4.483 billion rubles.