A file of reports and correspondence on agriculture in Hungary. The file contains a memorandum on collective farming in Hungary compiled by the British legation in Budapest, which reports that 12% of Hungarian arable land now belonged to collective farms; that the income of members of collective farms, thanks to intensive government investment, was beginning to exceed that of individual peasants; and that collective farms remained deeply unpopular with the peasantry, which had caused more than half of them to be disbanded during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. The file also reports that the harvest figures for 1958 were to be lower than the previous year's; and that the abolition of machine tractor stations (where collective farms hired mechanical equipment) in the Soviet Union was not being emulated in Hungary, where fewer machines were available.
- Collection ID
- FO371
- Countries
- Soviet Union
- Department Reference
- Code NH file 1281
- Document Type
- Reports Correspondence
- File Reference
- FO 371/134895
- Identifier
- 10.1080/cwee.fo371.134895
- Pages
- 37
- Published in
- United Kingdom
- Subject Countries
- Hungary
- Themes
- Industry and Agriculture Domestic Politics