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...

Under conditions in which the collective farms operate with equipment they themselves own, the question of amortization of basic equipment, and of the repair of tractors, harvester combines, and other agricultural machines arises in a new light. Previously, when the overwhelming bulk of...