Russian Agriculture, Forestry and the Agrofood Business

Albrecht Rothacher ()

Chapter Chapter 10 in Putinomics, 2021, pp 251-295 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract After the regular crop failures of the Soviet era, Russian agriculture has become a major competitor in the international cereal and oilseeds markets. This chapter demonstrates why the dismantling of the kolkhoz/sovkhoz system did not create a mass of private smallholders but rather ended up with large-scale commercial farms. Decades of collectivization, the trauma of the “Holodomor” against the “kulaks” and the reprivatization process sabotaged by officialdom in the 1990s systematically expunged any spirit of entrepreneurialism among Russian farmers who continue as underpaid farm hands if not leaving the countryside altogether. The legal uncertainties of the land market and the lack of access to finances favoured the emergence of politically well-connected agrobusiness privileged by import protection. The chapter also covers the agricultural policies of the Eurasian Economic Union, the forestry and wood processing sectors, and as a case study recounts the experiences of the Tiraspol Kvint distillery from the Czarist beginnings to the present.

Date: 2021
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-74077-1_10

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783030740771

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-74077-1_10

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().