Agriculture Flashcards

1
Q

Agrarian land reform

A

1950

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2
Q

10mil landlords lost land by

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1951

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3
Q

40% ownership of land changed hands

A

By 1951

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4
Q

MATs

A

1951

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5
Q

APCs

A

1952

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6
Q

Slowdown in ‘collectivisation’ due to peasant resistance

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1953

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7
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Agriculture under 1st FYP

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  • only 14% fams APCs by 1955
  • ‘stop contract and develop’ abandoned July 1955
  • 75m households collectivised by January 1956
  • APCs become HPCs
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8
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‘stop contract and develop’ abandoned

A

July 1955

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9
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75 m households collectivised by

A

January 1956

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10
Q

Communes 3dets

A

100% gvmnt control
Organised brigades of workers
Fam and private life destroyed

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11
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Lysenkoism claims

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His techniques raised wheat yield 16x (false)

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12
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Lysenkoism results

A

Crops fail across China
Official policy in 1958
8 point constitution (no flex)

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13
Q

APCs to communes under GLF

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750k APCs to 26k communes (120m fams)

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14
Q

Two main features of GLF

A

Communes introduced

Electrification of countryside and mechanisation of agriculture

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15
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GLF

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1958

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16
Q

HPCs

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2-300 fams

17
Q

‘Stop contract and develop’

A

January 55

Condemns ‘rash retreat’

18
Q

Agricultural Producers Cooperatives

A

1952

40-50 fams

19
Q

Mutual Aid Teams

A

1951

10 fams

20
Q

APCs rushed

A

Spring 53

➡️ debt

21
Q

Situation stabilised with ‘spontaneous capitalism’

A

1954

22
Q

3% peasants farming independently

A

1956

23
Q

HPCs economically disappointing

A

Production inc 3.8% per annum but indst workforce grows faster
Yields per hectare high but labour productivity low
Lacks state investment; ppl no longer directly benefit from their work (demotiv)