Agriculture Flashcards
Agrarian land reform
1950
10mil landlords lost land by
1951
40% ownership of land changed hands
By 1951
MATs
1951
APCs
1952
Slowdown in ‘collectivisation’ due to peasant resistance
1953
Agriculture under 1st FYP
- only 14% fams APCs by 1955
- ‘stop contract and develop’ abandoned July 1955
- 75m households collectivised by January 1956
- APCs become HPCs
‘stop contract and develop’ abandoned
July 1955
75 m households collectivised by
January 1956
Communes 3dets
100% gvmnt control
Organised brigades of workers
Fam and private life destroyed
Lysenkoism claims
His techniques raised wheat yield 16x (false)
Lysenkoism results
Crops fail across China
Official policy in 1958
8 point constitution (no flex)
APCs to communes under GLF
750k APCs to 26k communes (120m fams)
Two main features of GLF
Communes introduced
Electrification of countryside and mechanisation of agriculture
GLF
1958