They would push supply down by offering farmers a sum of money in exchange for farmers not farming a set amount of land. However, most of these payments didn’t cover the expenses the farmers gained with the lost land pushing a lot of family farms out of business. He had other programs implemented that were detrimental to family farms. Corporate farms would eventually take advantage of this as many of these programs were disastrous to family farms but beneficial to large corporate farms. (“Ganzel B.”, 2003) So where have family farms gone from the 1930’s?
These ideas seemed great but they did work much as Russia’s economy only grew by 50%, compared to other countries this was nothing. 80% of the country’s population were still peasants farming for themselves and having problems with land hunger, so they were generally unhappy. Because they were peasants and not workers in the cites, this shows that Russia was STILL not very modernized. The Trans-Siberian Railway was an ambitious project. It was a railway that started in the west of Russia, going through all of the major cities and then ending up in the east near the Pacific sea.
Railroad companies that charged four times as much as on the East gave farmers incentive to band together in order to combat outrages rates politically (Document D). Freight rates especially hurt farmers, who were far from both buying and selling markets, a clever extortion trick by the railroad companies to force farmers into paying at every occasion (Document F). With over a twenty percent decline in agriculture economy over fifty years, the farming community grew smaller and less organized by the day – an easy target for abusive
Government agricultural farm subsidies have been around since the 1930s. They were put into place in order to help poor farmers, and create economic stability during the Depression. According to Deborah White, writer for About.com, “Farm subsidies are payments made and other support [that is] extended by the U.S. federal government to certain farmers and agribusinesses [and that] farm subsidies are also known as agricultural subsidies.” In the past, agricultural subsidies were highly beneficial, but over time have now become corrupt. Instead of small farmers benefiting from the subsidies, almost all of the money is given to large corporations such as Monsanto. Now because of government subsidies supporting large corporations, serious health
Stalin achieved most of his aims; Grain production rose to nearly 100 million tonnes in 1937, although the numbers of animals never recovered. Russia sold large quantities of grain to other countries; this of course made a huge difference to the economy in Russia. A colossal 17 million people left the countryside to go to work in the towns this was part of industrialisation which helped to improve the economy. The kulaks were eliminated, this was one Stalin’s main aims and finally, the peasants were closely under the government's control, which pleased Stalin greatly. There were many failures in collectivisation, particularly in the initial phases - output fell in the 1930s largely for three reasons; the peasants resented the state taking their land, machinery and livestock, so they did not work as hard and put more effort into their private plots, where they could keep any profit generated - who wouldn't?
For some peasants life did improve dramatically, Stolypin set up banks that would help peasants get loans and buy land. This was a huge improvement for peasants as they were getting more freedom, this may have been because they would murder their landlords. This lead to improvements in farming this therefore lead to an industrial boom and made Russia the world’s fourth largest producer of coal, pig iron and steel. Only 15% of peasants took up Stolypin’s idea though. As for the Dumas, they could not pass laws, could not appoint ministers and could not control finance.
In addition to this, the state provided tractors and fertilisers to help modernise production and make operations more efficient, just like other western countries such as the U.K, U.S.A, and France etc. However, the tractors provided by the state were built to a very poor quality and could barely drive off the work floor. This is due to factory managers being under so much pressure to build a certain amount of tractors. Often, these managers were shot if their factory did not reach the intended quota. Collectivisation can be described as the Communist’ Party long-term aim for agriculture.
In the AAA’s first year the supply of food outstripped the demand. The AAA could raise prices by paying farmers to destroy crops, milk and livestock. To control production and farm prices the AAA paid farmers to leave some of their land uncultivated. For example if the markets demand for wheat and cotton decreased the AAA would give money to farmers as subsides which are grants of money given to farmers or any other
From the 9th to the 13th century, known as the Medieval Warm Period, brought about prosperous grain agriculture for the people of the world (NOAA, 2009). Grains and cereals were a part of their main staple. But when cooling trends started to appear in the beginning of the Little Ice Age, these grain crops began to fail. As a result of this, people were now faced with serious issues of famine. During the Little Ice Age 1.5 million people died in Europe from the cold or by famine (Cambou, 2005).
The outlook is bleak, but all hope is not lost due to different initiatives by various African governments to solve this devastating problem. Deforestation due to agricultural development is both a blessing and a curse. More farms equal more food, but fewer forests equal less rain which can bring food production to an abrupt halt. Deforestation combined with poor cropping methods result in the reduction of cloud cover and much larger evaporation rates. (“Overview of Drought”) Malawi, for example, was once a heavily forested country, but due to the population doubling and 80% of the population practicing subsistence farming, forests only cover about 27% of the land.