Agricultural Enterprises of Novosibirsk Region in the Late 1980s - 1990s
S. N. Andreenkov
Institute of History SB RAS
Keywords: колхозы, совхозы, сельскохозяйственные предприятия, аграрные реформы, сельское хозяйство, Новосибирская область, Сollective farms, state farms, agricultural enterprises, agrarian reforms, agriculture, Novosibirsk Region
Abstract
The paper analyzes agricultural enterprises activity in Novosibirsk Region; developing and functioning the organizational and economic structure of regional agriculture in the late 1980s, the causes and courses of its transformation in the 1990s; changing of the ownership and legal organizational forms of the agricultural enterprises. It reviews their performance under new market conditions, and some operation indicators like the material, technical and personnel base, the relative share in output of agricultural products, volumes and rates of its development. The author established the transfer of a key role in the agrarian economy of Novosibirsk Region from collective and state farms to large private companies and, at the same time, significantly decreasing of the volume of their output. The situation was especially dire in dairy and animal production. In the 1990s the most difficult period of agricultural sector activity in the Novosibirsk region were in 1996-1998.
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