AGRICULTURE.
The Soviet Power, having completely abolished private property in land, has already instituted a whole series of measures to promote the organisation of large-scale socialist agriculture. The most important of these measures are the following: (1) the founding of soviet farms, that is to say, of large-scale socialist economies; (2) the support of artels or cooperatives for the communal cultivation of the land; (3) the organisation of the State cultivation of all kinds of uncultivated land; (4) the State mobilisation of all agricultural experts, so that energetic measures may be taken for the improvement of agricultural methods; (5) the support of agricultural communes, as purely voluntary associations of agriculturists for the cooperative conduct of large-scale farming.[§103-109.]
Regarding all these measures as integrally tending to favour the absolutely essential increase in the productivity of agricultural labour, the Russian Communist Party endeavours to make them as fully effective as possible, to diffuse them widely throughout the more backward regions of the country, and to encourage further advances of the same character.
In especial the Russian Communist Party advocates:
- Extensive State support for the agricultural cooperatives engaged in the elaboration of agricultural products.
- The extensive introduction of methods for the improvement of the land.
- The widespread and purposive supply of farming implements to the poor peasants and the middle peasants. This is to be effected by means of lending stations.[§110& 111.]