Collectivisation is a policy of creating larger farms by combining small farms with each other. This way the farmers would farm together rather than individually. The reasons for collectivisation were for the soviet agriculture, the food was needed to feed the workers in the cities, NEP (New Economic Policy) was not working for Russia, cash crops were needed. In the 1930s coollectivisation was not an economic success.
In 1927 the Soviet agriculture (1) was still old fashioned and it was inefficient. There was no machinery to work with on the farms. The farmer had to use sickles just to harvest grain and it took alot of time. The farms were too small and they had less animals except for the farms that belonged to the Kulaks. Their farms had more animal and they were much begger. But most of the peasant farms, they could not grow a lot of food to feed a lot of workers. …
