ABSTRACT

There are, then, three types of production units in agriculture at present: peasant farms, producers' co-operatives and state farms. Their relative importance can be gauged from the data presented in Table 1. The peasant farms are of overwhelming importance; they account for around 95 per cent of the cultivated area. The producers' co-operatives account for less than two per cent of the area and just over one per cent of the country's peasant families. The state farms currently account for less than four per cent of cultivated area. A set of slightly different estimates, presented in Table 2, gives us some idea of the changes in the relative importance of the three types of production units during the period 1975/76-1982/83. It can be seen that both producers' cooperatives and state farms have grown in importance while the weight of the peasant sector has declined. The pace of change, however, has been very slow.