For Illustrating the Efficiency of Collectivization in the Latvian SSR

In the 1950s the C.I.A. admitted that, although a planned increase of the area sown to fodder crops was unfulfilled, and their fodder production still lagged behind animal husbandry’s increasing demands, the Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic’s Sovkhozes considerably increased their sown areas and crop yields during the Fourth Five-Year Plan; they increased livestock as well.