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

III. Az Abonyi „Kossuth" Mezőgazdasági Termelőszövetkezet története

Irodalomjegyzék 1. Györe Pál: Abony község története. Kézirat, 1968. 2. Györe Sándor: Zárszámadási közgyűlési beszámolók 1960-1970. 3. Közgyűlési jegyzó'könyvek és dokumentumok 1950-1970. Summary The history of the Kossuth Cooperative Farm embraces a round twenty years. The date of its establishment coincides with the beginning of the cooperative movement in Hungary. Its turning into a large-scale farm is followed up in four phases well separable from one another on the ground of development. The respective phases last from 1950 to 1954, 1955 to 1959, 1960 to 1965 and 1966 to 1969. Unfortunately, there are but few written documents and numerical materials available concerning the first decade, therefore, developments could be illustrated only by indices of natural content for long homogeneous time series. Indices on value were available only in respect to the bases (indivisible cooperative basis, production funds, participation basis) from which conclusions on the farming level may be drawn only through transmission. Farming data on the second decade are more detailed but their use was restricted by the requirement of a uniform layout of the study. The phases of development are characterized by outlining the social conditions, production funds, management and organization, income distribution and production pattern. In the first phase (1950 to 1954) no large-scale production can be spoken of since specialization was excluded right from the beginning by areal concentration (450 to 500 cad. hold total area, 1 cad. hold = 0,57 ha), and the low technical implementation ofthat time but also the monetary interest connected with the contractual system of crop growing acted in the direction of frittering away. The development of animal husbandry was determined by the implement requirement of the main sector and the possibilities of acquiring the necessary tools and implements. By state subsidy animal density was incrased from zero to 14,5 unit animals per cad. hold. By the end of the period a fairly good small-peasant level has been attained already. During the second phase (1955 to 1959) a certain large-scale farm superiority appears already as a consequence of the spread of mechanical tillage, increased fertilizer utilization and more favourable animal density (22 unit animals per cad. hold). Production funds rise almost fourfold, the participation basis more than twofold. The some 20 thousand Forint income from collective farming falling to the share of one working member raises the Cooperative among the best ones on the national scale too. The next phase falls to the years following the total socialist reorganization. The area increases sixfold, the number of members eightfold. Neither the personal nor the financial conditions of production have been provided for. The income failing to the share of one working member drops to about half of the last year sum of the earlier phase. Only by the end of the period the specific results of the enlarged farm attain the level of the predecessor „small" Kossuth Cooperative. By that time the natural balance is recovered. In the years from 1966 to 1969 the fairly consolidated internal conditions and purposive state subsidy create such economic atmosphere in which an economic attitude is gaining ground. In the evaluation of individual sectors stress is laid on the profit ratio of gross earnings but at the same time, full employment is the chief concern. The incentive income distribution as well as work organization are being solved in a way that deserves attention. Combination of the sectorial and areal system in management proves and original means well serving the goal. The history of the Cooperative ends in 1969, by fusion with a cooperative of equal size in 1970 a new chapter begins.