![state farms in a slightly new juridical guise … The result of the slump [in agricultural production] has been to turn the majority of these farms into more or less pure ‘subsistence’ entities engaged in the self supply of food for their members and (as far as possible) of the inputs necessary for that food production – but withdrawing mainly or totally from market supply. At the same time, however, a small minority of these former state and collective farms (about 10–15 per cent of them in all four regions studied) have come to dominate marketed production of food and other agricul-tural crops …. The clue to the survival of this small minority of enterprises has been their success in a form of ‘crisis management’, a success determined largely (in my view) by the contacts and abilities of their farm management.](https://images.tandf.co.uk/common/jackets/crclarge/978041564/9780415648967.jpg "state farms in a slightly new juridical guise … The result of the slump [in agricultural production] has been to turn the majority of these farms into more or less pure ‘subsistence’ entities engaged in the self supply of food for their members and (as far as possible) of the inputs necessary for that food production – but withdrawing mainly or totally from market supply. At the same time, however, a small minority of these former state and collective farms (about 10–15 per cent of them in all four regions studied) have come to dominate marketed production of food and other agricul-tural crops …. The clue to the survival of this small minority of enterprises has been their success in a form of ‘crisis management’, a success determined largely (in my view) by the contacts and abilities of their farm management.")
ABSTRACT
The survey data show that a much higher proportion of private plot output is marketed on ‘survivor’ farms than ‘collapsing’ farms. ‘On ‘collapsing’ farms … private plot production increases … are almost entirely for subsistence use … In effect … such farms have become little more than ‘servicing agencies’ and ‘input providers’ to ‘subsistence’ private plot production … The 10-15 per cent of ‘survivor’ farms in our four survey regions do not merely dominate the marketed production of collectively produced grain and feed crops … their work forces now also dominate the marketed production of fruit, vegetable and livestock products coming from private plots in these regions.
