Intrazonal Equalization of Production Conditions In Agriculture

The creation of more equal economic conditions on collective and state farms in various natural and economic zones throughout the nation as well as within these zones is a major social and economic problem; the solution of this problem will increase the effectiveness of agricultural production. Measures taken in recent years to improve the interzonal differentiation of prices, the increase in the level of purchase prices on livestock products, as well as the expansion in the volume of land reclamation work, the increased volume of deliveries of mineral fertilizers, equipment, etc., have created better potential for the rapid growth of agricultural production in regions of the nation that have relatively less favorable natural and economic conditions and especially regions outside the black-earth belt. At the same time, the problem of equalizing economic conditions within zones has become more acute.