Andreenkov Sergey N.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Agricultural Production in Novosibirsk Region in the Late 20th – Early 21th Centuries: Factors and Dynamics of Transformatio
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-5-4
The basic aim of the article is to find out the impact of the agrarian reform of the 1990s on agricultural production. The main task is to identify changes in organizational and sectoral structures of agriculture in the Novosibirsk region, and to characterize dynamics of the main types of agricultural production in the region during 1991–2015. The basic sources of information are statistics extracted from official statistical digests and archival collections, and also newspaper materials. Basic qualitative and quantitative indicators of plant growing and animal husbandry as well as subjective and objective factors affecting them were analyzed in the article. It was found out that in the 1990s regressive features prevailed in agriculture of the Novosibirsk region. Peasant farms that went out from collective farms and state farms did not become drivers of agricultural growth. Together with personal subsidiary farms they formed the small-commodity sector of agrarian economy, the size of which was increasing. The material and technical base of large agricultural organizations, the main producers of commodity products, degraded. Productivity of grain farming decreased through the deterioration of grain quality and the shortage of agricultural machinery and chemistry. The anti-crisis measures gave results only in the early 2000s. Grain production increased, although rates of the last Soviet five-year plan were surpassed only in the wheat harvest. In the post-Soviet period, farms began to produce more vegetables, flax and sunflowers. Animal husbandry was more affected by market reforms than plant growing. It wasn’t possible to stop a decrease in production of beef, lamb, and milk. The situation in poultry and pig farming was better. Egg collection exceeded the level of 1986–1990 already in the second half of the 1990s, and poultry meat production in the first half of the 2000s.
Publishing: 31/10/2019
How to cite: Andreenkov S.N. Agricultural Production in Novosibirsk Region in the Late 20th – Early 21th Centuries: Factors and Dynamics of Transformatio // Historical Courier, 2019, No 5 (7), pp. 48–62. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-5-04.pdf
Links: Issue 5 2019
Keywords: agrarian reforms of the 1990s; agriculture; plant growing; animal husbandry; agricultural technology; Novosibirsk region