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Agriculture in Russia is an important part of the economy of the Russian Federation. The agricultural sector survived a severe transition decline in the early 1990s as it struggled to transform from a command economy to a market-oriented system . [ 1 ]
Agriculture in the Russian Empire throughout the 19th-20th centuries Russia represented a major world force, yet it lagged technologically behind other developed countries. Imperial Russia (officially founded in 1721 and abolished in 1917) was amongst the largest exporters of agricultural produce, especially wheat .
The Soviet Union introduced forced collectivization (Russian: Коллективизация) of its agricultural sector between 1928 and 1940 during the ascension of Joseph Stalin. It began during and was part of the first five-year plan .
Russia's agriculture sector contributes about 5% of the country's total GDP, although the sector employs about one-eighth of the total labour force. [251] It has the world's third-largest cultivated area, at 1,265,267 square kilometres (488,522 sq mi).
1910 - Yakov Mamin created tractor "Dwarf", later known as the "Russian tractor". 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.
Russia will start delivering its grain to African countries within a month to six weeks, the Interfax news agency cited Agriculture Minister Dmitry Patrushev as saying on Friday. President ...
The Stolypin agrarian reforms were a series of changes to Imperial Russia's agricultural sector instituted during the tenure of Prime Minister Pyotr Stolypin.Most, if not all, of these reforms were based on recommendations from a committee known as the "Needs of Agricultural Industry Special Conference," which was held in Russia between 1901 and 1903 during the tenure of Minister of Finance ...
Russian businessman Andrey Melnichenko ceded control of two of the world's largest coal and fertilizers companies to his wife the day before he was sanctioned by the European Union, according to ...