Sovkhoz

A state farm (Russian: совхоз, хозяйство советское listen / i, the Soviet economy, also: the state farms ) was in the Soviet Union, a large agricultural operation.

In contrast to the collectively managed a kolkhozes state farms was an agricultural ( large ) mode state owned with salaried wage workers. They were originally formed in 1919 from state and private agricultural goods in order to demonstrate to the farmers the benefits of the Community economy. Later, they mostly specialized farms, seed and breeding cattle were delivered to the collective farms. Often, state farms were also built in natural spatially disadvantaged areas where the crop risk was quite high. The employees received fixed monthly wages generally. Since mid- 1950, the number of employees increased considerably. In the seventies, the state farms produced nearly fifty percent of the total agricultural production of the USSR.

In the years after 1991, many state farms (and collective farms ) were collapsed or dissolved because they were not economically viable and because the young population fled to the cities. What remained were ruins culture and land wasteland of great magnitude.

In the GDR, the state-owned assets ( VEG) were state farms comparable farms. The collective farms were comparable, the agricultural production cooperatives ( LPG).