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During 2004, peasant farms accounted for 14.4% of Russia's total grain production (up from 6.2% in 1997), 21.8% percent of sunflower seed (up from 10.8% five years earlier), and 10.1% of sugar beets (3.5% in 1997). Corporate farms produced the remainder of these crops, with hardly any contribution from the small household plots.
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The Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation (Russian: Министерство сельского хозяйства Российской Федерации) is a ministry of the Government of Russia responsible for agricultural production, soil conservation, rural development, agricultural market regulation, and financial stabilization of the farm sector.
The Central Agricultural Zone was marked by lower living standards for peasants, and an extremely dense and poor rural population. [1] [2] It was surrounded by areas where commercial farming was prevalent: in the Baltic were capitalist farms able to hire wage-labour due to the Emancipation in 1817 with access to Western grain markets, in Western Ukraine nobles had established vast sugar-beet ...
9 May - Assassination of the Pro-Russian Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov in Grozny. [1] 13 August–29 August - Russia competes at the Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, and wins 27 gold, 27 silver and 38 bronze medals. 29 August - Alu Alkhanov succeeds Kadyrov as President of Chechnya following elections. [1]
However, mass production of tractors in Russia was launched only in the Soviet Union in the 20-30s. In 1917 the whole of Russia was 165 tractors 1918 - at Petrograd factory "Bolshevik" was organized small-scale production of crawler tractors. 1921 - SNK (Soviet government) decree "On agricultural engineering".
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Before the Russian Revolution of 1917 a peasant with less than 13.5 acres (5.5 ha) was considered too poor to maintain a family. [10] However, the productivity of such plots is reflected in the fact that in 1938 3.9 percent of total sown land was in the form of private plots, but in 1937 those plots produced 21.5 percent of gross agriculture ...