5 Jan 1953 Jahr - Khrush tells Central Committee:
- Unreliable stats
- Grain output and livestock less than Tsars
But
- Still use Lysenko
Grain prices rise c25% to 1956
Tax reduced - plot size not what they owned
Quotas on private plots cut
Increase in electric farms & MTS
Merge collectives to create larger farms, collectives fall by 1/2 by 1960
Virgin lands attempt in North Kazakhstan and Siberia