virgin land sceme

Question 1

what was the aim?

Answer 1

-increase the aim of land to be cultivated

Question 2

whose rule did it come under?

Answer 2

khrushchevs

Question 3

how much land was given to wheat production?

was this increased?

Answer 3

1950- 96mil acres

increased to 165mil acres in 1964

Question 4

what was wrong with the soil?

Answer 4

overused, little attention payed to crop rotation, which resulted in reduction of soil fertility

Question 5

what was the long term impact?

Answer 5

productivity and production slowed down- problem in 1963 with the harvest- grain production fell to 107mil tons when the previous year it was 140 mil tons