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What the Russians LearnedWHEN THE RUSSIAN FARMERS visited a number of agricultural districts in their recent tour of the United States, they learned many things. But it was clear that what intrigued them and amazed them more than anything else was the tremendous efficiency of the American farmer as compared with the Russian farmer. A correspondent of the New York Times, who accompanied the party, commented on this in one of his articles as follows:* But. perhaps, the single factor which time and again the Russians have questioned and analyzed is the way in which the one-rnan farm is operated by a single farmer with his labor-saving equipment. The first time this lesson came home to AlexanderTulipnikov, a member of the collegium of the Soviet Ministry of Agriculture, he made a simple comment which summed the whole thing up: “By you one man, by us a hundred!”This comparative inefficiency of the Russian farmer is one of the most important reasons for the continuing food shortage in Russia. While this inefficiency can probably be corrected to a considerable degree in time, there is another factor behind the Russian food problem which will be far more difficult to change. That is the comparatively limited area of good farming land. On a per capita basis, there is far less good farming land in Russia than in the United States.
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Montana Farmer Stockman
Great Falls, Montana, US
Sat, Oct 01, 1955
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