What is collective farming?

Question

What is collective farming?

Answer 1

Collective farms were all the rage during the Communist era but they failed miserabaly because they were models of ineffeciency.  

The workers basically had an 8-5 job on the farm but also had a little plot of land (garden) from which they could keep all the products the produced.  Those little gardens often produced more than all the thousand and thousands of acres of the farm.  Why?  Incentive.  Workers had no incentive to work extra hard on the collective because there was nothing to gain from it.  In their own garden, the more they produced, the more they could sell and the more money they could keep themselves.

Answer 2

Collective farming regards a system of agricultural organization in which farm laborers are not compensated via wages. Rather, the workers receive a share of the farm's net productivity

Answer 3

Collective farming is when a group of farmers pool their land, domestic animals, and agricultural implements, retaining as private property enough only for the members' own requirements. The profits of the farm are divided among its members. In cooperative farming, farmers retain private ownership of the land.

Collective farming was first developed in the USSR in 1917, where it became general after 1930. Stalin's collectivization drive 1929–33 wrecked a flourishing agricultural system and alienated the Soviet peasants from the land: 15 million people were left homeless, 1 million of whom were sent to labor camps and some 12 million deported to Siberia. In subsequent years, millions of those peasants forced into collectives died. Collective farming is practiced in other countries as well. It was adopted from 1953 in China, with results much like the Soviets. Collective farming is an intricate part of Communism and has failed almost everywhere it has been forced on farmers. Collective farming has been successful where it is adopted as a choice in several countries. In Israel the kibbutz or collective farm has been very successful and practiced for the protection of the farmers.  

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Answer 4

Not all collective farms fail.

A Kibbutz (Hebrew: קיבוץ Translit.: kibbutz Plural: kibbutzim Translated: gathering, together) is an Israeli collective community. The movement combines socialism and Zionism in a form of practical Labor Zionism, founded at a time when independent farming was not practical or, somewhat more accurately, not practicable. Forced by necessity into communal life, and inspired by their ideology, the kibbutz members developed a pure communal mode of living that attracted worldwide interest.

Answer 5

If my ignorance is right on the money, collective farming is part of the communism system? like the one they have in Cuba?. Opinion: I don't think I'll enjoy that kind of system, no thanks!

Answer 6

it's when the farmers share their crops.