A Comparison of Soviet and US Levels of Agricultural Output

>p>The Soviet people are successfully implementing their Seven-Year Plan of economic development, This is a decisive step in realizing the basic economic goal of the USSR: to match and surpass the capitalist countries in per capita production within the shortest historical period.>/p>>p>The seven-year program of agricultural development of the USSR, mapped out with due regard for this goal, can justly be called a tremendous one. This makes the successes already achieved even more significant. The first year of the seven-year period, 1959, witnessed a further advance of agricultural production.>/p>