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Tremendous amounts of money have already been channeled into agriculture. Thus, technical base of production has been consolidated.
To secure per capita increase of agricultural production it is necessary to raise the level of mechanization of agricultural work, first and foremost at livestock farms. In the eleventh five-year period the supply of new machinery is to increase. Collective and state farms are to receive many more powerful tractors and trucks.
The main task of tractor and agricultural machine building is to secure further growth in the production of the heavy-duty K-700 T-150 and other tractors and of the entire set of machines and implements for them.
The engineers should design and make a high-capacity row-crop tractor and a productive grain combine harvester with technical and economic characteristics conforming to present-day demands.
It is necessary to organize the production of self-propelled windrow harvesters and at the same time to expand the production of combined soil cultivating and sowing machines. In the nearest future the agricultural machine building industry is to arrange the manufacture of new machines for application of hard and liquid fertilizers and chemical plant protection means.
In the interests of successful realization of the food programme it is highly important to continue the retooling of agriculture on the basis of new technology, to complete the comprehensive mechanization of the production of sugar beet, raw cotton and fibre flax and of the application of organic and mineral fertilizers and crop protection agents, to raise the level of mechanization of the production of vegetables, including potatoes, fruit, fodder, and livestock products.
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