Changes in Agriculture 1949-62

Question 1

Agrarian reform Law 1950

Answer 1

Took land from landlords and shared it out to peasants
Landlords put on trial in People’s courts

Question 2

Mutual Aid teams

Answer 2

Peasants would work on each other’s land for an increase in overall food production

Question 3

Agricultural Producers Co-operatives

Answer 3

Large unit of 3-5 mutual aid teams
APC’s created demand for machinery which increased production and boosted industry

Question 4

Communes

Answer 4

Farms made up of 2000-3000 households
All animals and land managed collectively

Question 5

Effects of collectivisation

Answer 5

The great famine 1958-62:
caused 50 millions deaths
Parents sold children and husbands sold wives for food
Some resorted to cannibalism