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Size Matters in Bitter Breadbasket Battle.
(From The Moscow Times)
Deep in breadbasket territory, a debate is raging over how big farms should be, illustrating just how deeply the agriculture sector is rooted to its Soviet past -- and just how conflicted those ties are.
A preference for large collective farms that feed the masses, instilled over seven decades of socialism, still runs deep. Colliding with that is a growing desire among individual farmers to have a piece of land they can call their own.
The Stavropol region, for example, last week passed legislation that makes it almost impossible for farmers to take the small patch of the collective farm, or kolkhoz, that was signed over ...
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- Soviets scraping collective farms
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- UKRAINE: REFORM OF COLLECTIVE FARMS BEGINS.
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- Newspaper article from: The Sunday Independent (South Africa) July 30, 2006 700+ words
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