Lázár Vilmos szerk.: Termelőszövetkezettörténeti tanulmányok 1. (Mezőgazdaságtörténeti tanulmányok 6. Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1972)

Összefoglaló (angolul)

András CSEPELI-KNORR wrote the history of the "KÖZÖS ÜT" (Common Road) Cooperative Farm of Belvárdgyula. The Cooperative Farm was established on 1st August 1958 with 140 families of the village joining their forces. Of the founders 7 families belonged to the landless-, 30 to the petty peasant-. 80 to the middle peasant- and 23 families to the wealthy farmer kategory. The land area of the Cooperative Farm extended to 806,5 ha the quality of which surpassed at that time the national average by about 10 per cent. The production means of the Cooperative Farm consisted besides the livestock and small-scale farm implements brought in by the members of the cow shed for 100 animals of a formerly dissolved cooperative farm. In the following years the life of the Cooperative Farm was characterized by the surrounding farms poining in. In the joining cooperative farms both the level of farming and that of the production means were lower wihtout exception. During the 11 years study of the life and management of the Cooperative Farm, i.e. between 1959 and 1969, the value of the collective assets of the Farm grew about twentyfold, from 3 million Forint to 68,5 million Forint. The successfulness of farming was characterized by the increasing ratio of financing from their own resources during a dynamical accumulation, which was shown by the fact that the proportion of net assets in the collective assets — amounting only to 40 per cent following the establishment of the Cooperative Farm •— rose to 79 per cent by 1969. In accordance with the organization and consolidation of the Farm the repartitions of fixed and current assets showed different trends in the examined period. Contrary to the 50 : 50 per cent ratio of the year 1959 the first two-third of the period was characterized by a quick growth of the stock of fixed assets, as a result of which in 1966 the value of fixed assets amounted to 65 per cent, while that of the current assets to 35 per cent of the collective assets. Following this with the view of improving the operative management and achieving better production results — the growth of fixed assets slowed down and the rise of the stock of current assets accelerated extraordinarily. In the last year of investigation in 1969 the situation changed in comparison to 1966 and the stock of fixed assets represented 40 per cent while that of the current assets 60 per cent of the collective property. As compared to the general tendencies experienced in cooperative farms, the manpower situation showed a different trend in the Farm. The numbers of working members and employees per 100 hectares productive are redoubled during the 11 years, rising from 12,1 to 24,7. The growth was furthered by an appropriate modification of the production structure and with proper measures of labour organization taken. The modification of production structure was characterized by a considerable increase in the livestock. The number of large animals per