RUSSIAN AGRICULTURE
RESULTS OF SOVIET RULE. LONDON, December 6. According to “The Times’s” Riga correspondent, Ryoff stated: “The Russian people do not realise the tremendous menace hovering over our industrial plans.” Giving the Communist Conference a most depressing picture of conditions in agriculture, he said: The chief trouble is population increases, while cultivation diminishes, especially the production of grain. The area of grain has decreased ten pei’ cent, and compared with pre-war, the average yield has decreased eight, per cent. Meanwhile the population rises by three 'millions annually, thus the average 'pre-war harvests gave 25 per cent, more grain per head than to-day. The condition of other crops is worse. The area increased 50 per- cent. yet. the total crops diminished. There is a danger of a rupture between agriculture and industry running our whole industrialisation programme.” A.W.U. MISSION. SYDNEY, December 7. The Australian Workers’. Union contemplate sending a delegation to Russia “to ascertain the truth about Soviet rule and conditions.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1928, Page 7
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