Pintér János - Takács Imre szerk.: Termelőszövetkezettörténeti tanulmányok 3. (Mezőgazdaságtörténeti tanulmányok 8. Magyar Mezőgazdasági Múzeum, Budapest, 1976)

II. A Valkói „Új Élet" Mezőgazdasági Termelőszövetkezet története

Irodalomjegyzék 1. Abella Miklós: Néhány adat a gödöllői járás településeinek 1720-tól napjainkig tartó fejlődéséhez. (Földrajzi Értesítő 1953. IV. évf. III. füz.) 2. Borovszky Samu: Magyarország Vármegyéi és Városai. Pest—Pilis—Solt-Kiskun vármegye. I. köt. Bp. 1910. 189. 1. 3. Dercsényi Dezső: Pest megye műemlékei. I. köt. Bp. 1958. 243. 1. 4. Papp Gábor - Rádóczy Gyula - Tóth Imre: Valkó. Kiadja: Valkó község tanács. Valkó. 1969. 191 1. 5. A községi tanácsülés jegyzőkönyvei 1953-1972. 6. A termelőszövetkezet közgyűlésének jegyzőkönyvei 1959—1973.. 7. A termelőszövetkezet vezetőségi üléseinek jegyzőkönyvei 1959—1973. 8. Valkó község adattára. (A községi tanács tulajdona.) Summary The study consists of six chapters. The first treats the geographic, economic and social conditions of the village Valkó (Hungary) untü the end of World War II. Of the natural conditions, only the factors promoting or hindering efficient agricultural production are discussed in the study. The brief history of the village presents the life of earlier generations and points to the factors having forwarded or hindered progress. Chapter 2 deals with problems of the democratic and socialist reorganization of the village. During postwar years considerable changes have taken place in the life of the village population. The peasants took possession of their ancient share, the land, occupied their due place in the social life of the village and quickly recovered their farms devastated during World War II. Their trust in the future, interest in production, however, were broken by the wrong economic policy of the fifties. Under effect of measures taken by the worker-peasant government production mood was improved anew and the peasants of Valkó made preparations for a long-term individual farming. As a consequence, and due to economo-political faults committed earlier collectivization met with heavy difficulties, moods got ruffled. Chapter 3 discusses the establishment of the Cooperative Farm Új Élet and the problems arisen in the first years of farming, from 1959 to 1962. Collective farming started with many difficulties. Considerable pert of the members left the Cooperative still before the starting of common works and found employment in industry and other sectors of the national economy. Labour shortage, lack of the preconditions of large-scale farming, unpreparedness of the management and resistance of the members involved serious economic difficulties. In the first two years the Agricultural Cooperative could not fulfil its plan. During this period the members did not consider the Cooperative as their own, several of the hoped it would fail. Chapter 4 deals with the evolvement of collective farming from 1963 to 1966. In this period the members stopped shrinking from collective work having come to see that the Cooperative did not disintegrate. The management was consolidated too. The introduced new way of distribution and work organization better suited the conditions and targets of large-scale farming. The state of expert supply was improved and objective conditions for large-scale farming were quickly created. As a result of the changed conditions both crop growing and animal husbandry produced considerably higher yields. From year to year, the gross earnings of the Cooperative and the income of members from collective farming, increased. All these favourably acted on the consciousness of members and their relation to the common property too.