Twelfth Five-Year Plan Research Articles

Purchase Prices on Agricultural Products

The May (1982) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU emphasized that raising the effectiveness of agriculture, which is the basis for effecting a cardinal solution of the food problem - the central task of the party and the state in the Eleventh and Twelfth five-year plans - is impossible without stable economic conditions for actual rather than formal cost accounting, unless price, profit, and credit perform the role of economic levers, and unless they stimulate the growth of production.