93 Per Cent. of Peasants in Collective Farms Moscow, Jan. 22, Ninety-three per cent. of all peasants in the Soviet Union were united in 284,700 collective farms throughout. the country, declared the Commissar for Agriculture, M, Eikhe, the Supreme Council, or. Soviet Parliament, to-day, The agricultural industry he sai now possessed 367,000 tractor 105,000 harvesting implements, and s ores of thousands of other machines, M. Eikhe claimed that Russia had achieved a more rapid growth of agricultural production than other countries, He estintated that the total harvest in 1037 amounted to 113,000,000 tons, 5 Measures were in hand, the Commissar declared, to develop the mechanization of agriculture still further with -the assistance of a large grant from the Government,—Reuter,
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