Problems of Lowering Production Costs in Machine-Tractor Stations

The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in its directives concerning the Sixth Five-Year Plan for the development of the USSR economy, pointed out the necessity of improving techniques in MTS, increasing the daily productivity of tractors and grain combines by not less than 30 to 35 per cent, lowering the expenses of tractor work by about 16 per cent and substantially reducing state outlays per centner of grain production received as payment in kind for the work of MTS.