ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the developments in the agricultural system of the Municipality of Kanepi. There used to be two kolkhozes in the municipality: the Kalev kolkhoz and the Kanepi kolkhoz. The Municipality of Kanepi lies in the southeast of Estonia, in the western part of the Polva county, on the border between the Voru and Valga counties. In the 1970s and the 1980s, the Kanepi kolkhoz developed according to the rules established by the agricultural policy of the USSR. The prices of agricultural products remained low and the situation became so desperate that the agricultural producers were not paid for their products that passed on to processing enterprises even at these low prices. With 1987 mass protest movement against construction of a phosphorite mine devised by Moscow, Estonia proceeded into the era of the “singing revolution”. The number of unemployed country people rose quickly. In 1991, when municipal development plan was worked out, there were four unemployed people in municipality.
