BISNIS - NIS Agribusiness Report
OCT 95

**The following messages are provided courtesy of the Russian Agriculture Listserv (RUSAG-L ), sponsored by the USDA and the University of Maryland, College Park.

Statistics and Current Events

1) STATISTICS: The following statistics are from a source at the Russian Embassy:

As of July 1, 1995, there were 284.4 thousand private farms in Russia which occupied 12.1 mil hectares (29.9 mil acres). These farms account for 5.5% of the total agricultural land in the country.

There still exist about 30,000 former state and collective farms averaging approximately 6,100 ha (15,000 acres) each. Most of these have been reorganized into various forms of joint-stock companies and partnerships, but over 5,000 remain collective farms (kolkhozes) and 2,500 remain state farms (sovkhozes).

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"Shares of different enterprise groups in the production of main commodities in 1994"
Commodity Large Farms (LF)
(including collective,
state re-registered
joint stock
companies &
partnerships) Individual
Farms (IF) Household
Plots (HP)

Grain: 94.4% 5.0% 0.6%

Sunflower: 98.1% 0.3% 1.6%

Potato: 11.0% 0.9% 89.1%
(?? This one
sums incorrectly,
but it is the
figures I
that I have).

Vegetables: 31.9% 1.2% 67.9%

Meat (all kinds): 56.0% 1.0% 43.0%

Milk: 60.0% 1.5% 38.5%

Eggs: 59.7% 2.5% 37.8%

**"Shares of different enterprise groups in the production of main commodities in 1994"**
Commodity	Large Farms (LF) (including collective, state re-registered joint stock companies & partnerships)	Individual Farms (IF)	Household Plots (HP)
Grain:	94.4%	5.0%	0.6%
Sunflower:	98.1%	0.3%	1.6%
Potato:	11.0%	0.9%	89.1% (?? This one sums incorrectly, but it is the figures I that I have).
Vegetables:	31.9%	1.2%	67.9%
Meat (all kinds):	56.0%	1.0%	43.0%
Milk:	60.0%	1.5%	38.5%
Eggs:	59.7%	2.5%	37.8%

2) CURRENT EVENTS #67: