Increasing The Scale and Concentration of Production on The State Farms

In the solution of the tasks standing before Soviet agriculture (an increase of grain production to 11 billion poods and catching up with the USA in per capita production of meat, milk and butter) an important role belongs to the state farms (in 1956 they cultivated 25% of the sown area of the country). The size of the state farms when they were organized was too large in view of the absence of machines, the small number of specialists, etc. But this is a thing of the past. We now have experienced personnel and sizeable capital. In 1946-1950 capital investments in the state farms amounted to 4.2 billion rubles, in 1951-1955 to 15.7 billion rubles, in 1956-1957 to 14.9 billion rubles.