Soviet Grain Imports Classic Reprint

Author : Lazar Volin
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364758281
Total Pages : 210 pages
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Download or read book A Survey of Soviet Russian Agriculture (Classic Reprint) written by Lazar Volin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-17 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Survey of Soviet Russian Agriculture In other words, the Russian figures of grain yields do not include harvesting losses, which, according to frequent Soviet reports, are as large as 10 to 20 percent or more. A correction up to 10 percent for technically unavoidable harvesting losses of grain apparently was made in the estimates of yields for 19332 and, perhaps, for some of the subsequent years, but in the later 3o's this practice was stopped. This so-called biological method of estimating yields has been applied to grains since 1933 and has since been extended to other crops. Thus, according to official instructions, issued on July 21, 1939, for estimating a number of crops (cotton, fiax fiber and seed, hemp fiber and seed, sunflowers, castor-beans, sugar beets, and potatoes), the figures for actual yields per hectare must include crop losses. For instance, the estimates are to count all losses of potatoes from the beginning until the end of the harvest, including such items as undug tubers of potatoes or parts of tubers, tubers which were left in the field during the harvest and also lost during the moving of the crop, stolen potatoes and those distributed to the workers during the harvest Without proper accounting. Similar provisions were made for sugar beets and other crops.3 This method of estimating yields has been followed even more strictly since World War II. According to the head of the Soviet crop estimating organization, it is prohibited to gather data on threshing of crops in the collective farms, while the process of estimating yields is being carried out, because such information distorts the actual situation with respect to yields and makes it possible to underestimate the actual size of the crop.4 With respect to grains, there is enough evidence to indicate definite overestimation since 1933 of official yield data and, consequently, of production figures, which makes it impossible to use them in comparisons with other countries or with Russian figures prior to 1933 without some adjustment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.