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

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Trend in the gross- and net production value of agriculture (at unchanged prices) 1938 = 100.

Ü Gross production Net production 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 84 90 104 79 94 96 108 95 84 94 112 70 97 92 106 89 And since the resources of the State were engaged by the industrialisât ion. the agricultural investments did not even make up for the buildings, tools and equipment of small farms lost to production due to collectivization. Besides, in this period a quarter of a milion active men left the agriculture, and 300.000 cooperative mebers (in June 1956) and their families too endeavoured to utilize their working capacity partly in the homeplots and outside the cooperative farm respectively. The mechanization of cooperative farms replaced but subsequently and only in part the missing man-power and tractive forces. The degree of mechanization was low and the improvement minimum in that period. Collectivization shock the harmony of the fundamental conditions of production though without it neither a successful production nor a profitable farming are imaginable. Harmony was missing first of all between the area of the cooperative farms and cropping structure prescribed by the State organs on one hand, and between manpower and the level of mechanization on the other. But no harmony existed between plant production and soil amelioration either. Less than 40 kg fertilizer active agent — and in most years not even half of this amount — fell to one hectare arable-, horticultural- or Total number of work-days performed by machines per 100 ha agricultural area in the cooperative farms 1951 697 1952 549 1953 653 1954 820 1955 852 1956 1006