Chapter 522: No Need to Import Grain

For the people, the first thing is to be able to eat a full stomach, the history of China illustrates this problem, as long as you have a full stomach, the country will be stable, if you can't eat, then the country will be in turmoil. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

And for the Soviet Union, it was the same, in those years during the war, because there was an invasion of foreign enemies, so even if they were hungry, they had to support the front line, which was a common enemy.

And now, history is gone, the new generation of people, who did not experience the brutal World War II, is not so firm in their faith, in order for them to use the Soviets and support the red rule, they must make them feel that they are living happily and have a full stomach, which is the basic condition.

Historically, the Soviet Union has had a failed grain harvest since 79, and imported grain has become a net importer of grain since 75. In 70 years, the Soviet Union exported 3.5 million tons of grain, in 74 years the import and export of grain was flat, and in 75 years began to import grain, reaching the scale of tens of millions of tons. Since then, food imports have continued to increase, for example, in 84 years of history, 26.8 million tons of grain were imported from the United States and Canada alone. After 86, it was even more serious, the shortage of food was about 21 billion rubles, and the total amount of food production at that time was only 136 billion rubles. In addition to importing a large amount of grain, other food-related categories also need to be imported, such as 600,000 tons of meat, 240,000 tons of cream, 1.2 million tons of vegetable oil, 5.5 million tons of sugar, and 500,000 tons of citrus in 89.

Because of the grain problem, the Soviet Union fell into the 80s, and it was already full of complaints, and all the profits from exporting oil had to be invested in the bottomless pit of grain, and therefore the Soviet Union had to look at the face of the West.

Is it because of the growing population? Of course not! In addition to the rapid population growth after World War II, which reached an annual growth rate of 17 per 1,000, the population growth rate has been declining for the period after that.

What is the reason for that? Is it a natural disaster? Of course, there have been almost no large-scale natural disasters over the years! Then, there is only one reason left, people's enthusiasm for labor! This is no longer the period when the Soviets were just founded, nor is it the period of World War II, and now, people's enthusiasm for labor is incomparably low!

Even in the city's factories, during the working period, workers have come out one after another, to the shopping mall queue up to shop is not uncommon, there are no special measures, under the big pot rice system, accompanied by inefficiency!

Regarding the agricultural reform, Andrei once suggested to Andropov at the beginning, this agricultural reform needs to break the system of big pot rice and implement the responsibility system!

(Regarding this system, when it was first proposed, it was scolded by a small number of book friends as brain-dead, and there were even readers with 0 fan values who scolded and abandoned the book. However, looking at the essence of the phenomenon aside, East China Zhixiong does not mean that the land should be cultivated according to the division of each family, and the core idea is the division of responsibilities! Under the Soviet system, everything was allocated by the higher-ups, seeds, fertilizers, agricultural machinery, corn or wheat, all decided by the higher-ups, and the peasants only needed to plant the land, without any responsibility, even if all the grass grew in the land, it had nothing to do with them! East China Zhixiong was born in the countryside, and has a very deep experience of all this, under the domestic big pot rice system, the work is purely not contributing, doing good and bad, no one will have a sense of responsibility! And the USSR at that time, too! Therefore, the core of reform is responsibility! The land is managed by the peasant households, and the higher authorities only collect a part of the taxes, and the rest are operated by the peasant households themselves, and the income from the grain they grow is closely related to the peasant households. As for who to give it to, it can be a single family, or it can be a combination of multiple families to contract a farm! Well, if you want to spray East China's hero, you can continue to spray, and there is no charge for this part of the word count. )

At that time, Andrei was just a suggestion, and the specific implementation had to be made by Andropov, and no matter what he did, it would touch a large number of vested interests, so the reform measures must be steady, targeted and realistic. Now, when the state is fighting corruption in an all-out way, there is little resistance to reform.

Under these circumstances, Gelbachev, who was mainly engaged in agriculture, carried out agricultural reforms in the country. And it was precisely because of the success of his agrarian reform that he accumulated capital to enter the ******.

"Yes, General Secretary, members of the ****** Committee." Geerbachev said: "The reform we are carrying out in agriculture is to vigorously promote the system of collective agricultural contracting. Our agriculture should follow the development path of joint production contracting. At the same time, our country no longer invests in agriculture, and our funds are to buy grain from the hands of the peasant households, and the agricultural machinery and equipment in the original organic farms are sold to the peasants after we have appraised them, because the peasants do not have much money for the time being, and can temporarily provide them in the form of interest-free loans, and then sell the grain after production, and then repay it to the state. At the same time, farmers need to pay a certain agricultural tax to the state. In other words, the state will no longer interfere in our agriculture, and it will be completely left to the farmers to operate independently. I promote contracting and co-ownership at the level of production teams, production groups and families. ”

In the past, this was completely contrary to the idea of socialism, and in the Stalin era, whoever dared to do this would definitely go to Siberia to be exiled and reformed, but now, with the support of Andropov, this reform is progressing smoothly.

"After such reforms, we have greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the peasants, last year, we were in Ukraine as a pilot, that year we achieved a bumper harvest of Ukrainian agriculture, and this year, we have spread it throughout the Soviet Union, after careful statistics, this year's total grain output of our country, is 230 million tons, we no longer need to import grain from the West, we have predicted, next year our grain production, will exceed 250 million tons, when the time comes, we not only do not have to import grain to the West, We can even export some of our food, or use it for stockpiling. ”

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and this was a very important turning point! Soviets, the food problem has finally been solved! Don't worry about the West jamming the Soviets by refusing to export grain!

Andrei also nodded, this policy, in fact, is almost similar to the historical Geerbachev after coming to power, the implementation of agricultural reform, after carefully examining the great success of China's agricultural reform, and in connection with the actual situation of the Soviet Union, Geerbachev also launched this set of production team, production group and family level to promote contracting and the same system.

It is a pity that the historical Gelbachev did not succeed, not because this system is not applicable, but because the Soviet Union is already terminally ill, and Gerbachev, as the general secretary, simply does not have enough ability to carry it out, and this system has touched the interests of too many people. Under the original planned economy, the personnel of the government departments at the first level could get benefits, and needless to say, the funds allocated by the state for agricultural production could be withheld by them!

But what about now? The interests of these people are gone, and even the functions of these departments have been lost, and the state will no longer invest any money in agriculture, and the state only needs to prepare money and buy grain directly from the peasant households! If anyone dares to engage in corruption in these areas, then the local KGB organization will step in and send them where they need to go. (To be continued.) )