Improving the Management of Agriculture

Abstract

The consistent implementation of the modern agrarian policy of the CPSU, aimed at the transformation of agriculture into a highly developed sector of the economy, entails the further improvement of methods and forms of planned organization of social production. Special importance is acquired by the interconnected, comprehensive utilization of all elements of the economic planning mechanism underlying the development of agriculture and the agroindustrial complex as a whole: planning, cost-accounting incentives, and the system of interbranch relations. In accordance with the pronouncements of the July (1978) Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU, this mainly requires "the elaboration of planning and incentive principles, which in the present stage would create more favorable conditions for expanded reproduction" and would "bring economic relations between branches of the agroindustrial complex into line with socialist economic principles."