AGRICULTURE IN RUSSIA
Defects Admitted By* Minister (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) MOSCOW, March 22. Mr Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet Minister in Over-all Charge of Agriculture and Food Production, blamed certain Soviet officials in a recent speech for the “sorry state of affairs” in Russian agriculture, according to “Pravda,” the official Communist Party newspaper. The speech was made at a session of the Communist Party on February 23, but it was not published until today. Mr Khrushchev, who also holds the influential post of First Secretary of the Communist Party, named former agricultural chiefs in turn, criticising them for their shortcomings. He also blamed excessive centralisation and the red-tape methods of the Soviet governmental system for the failures of Soviet agriculture. He said that the mistake made by the State farmers was to increase the amount of fodder grown on cultivated land at the expense of grain crops. The all-important grain producing area had decreased by 1,000,000 hectares.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27306, 24 March 1954, Page 6
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