Cultivating debt.Agriculture remains the least reformed part of the Russian Russian associated in some way with Russia. Russian blue a breed of cats with short, dense, silver-tipped blue-colored coat and vivid green eyes. economy. The people who work the farms are now called shareholders, but their lives are little changed from the days of collective farming Collective farming regards a system of agricultural organization in which farm laborers are not compensated via wages. Rather, the workers receive a share of the farm's net productivity. . Only five percent of Russia's farmland is privately owned. About three-quarters of the country's farms are losing money; their major crop seems to be debt. The grain harvest of 1996 was 69 million tonnes -- the second worst crop in the previous 30 years. Farms can' afford to buy fertilizer fertilizer, organic or inorganic material containing one or more of the nutrients—mainly nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, and other essential elements required for plant growth. or herbicide herbicide (hr`bəsīd'), chemical compound that kills plants or inhibits their normal growth. A herbicide in a particular formulation and application can be described as selective or nonselective. so crop yields are likely to decline further. Russia now imports about half its food, putting a huge strain on its precious reserves of foreign currency. |
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