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  • With the barely refurbished kolkhozes and sovkhozes controlling four-fifths of the arable land, [14] the structure of agricultural production looks very much like it did in Soviet times: these "agricultural organizations" produce over three-quarters of the country's grain, nearly half of its beef and poultry, and half of its milk and eggs.

    unknown title 2009

  • The pro-forma "independent" collective farms, the kolkhozes, and the outright state-owned sovkhozes were virtually indistinguishable in practice.

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  • By 2005, 53% (by value) of the country's total agricultural output was coming from household plots (which in 2006 occupied only 2.9% of agricultural land), while the remaining 47% (by value -- Rosstat 2006) came from the agricultural enterprises (often the former kolkhozes and sovkhozes) and individual farmers, requiring 97.1% of agricultural lands (Rosstat 2007b). (recent research by Sharashkin, as reported by Dmitry Orlov)

    Stan Goff: It's Not Rocket Science: Land Productivity, Food Rights 2009

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