History A-Level
Agricultural investment and the Virgin Lands Scheme
What Agricultural investment and the Virgin Lands Scheme means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Agricultural investment and the Virgin Lands Scheme
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Investment was increased and procurement prices raised, and from 1954 semi-arid land in Kazakhstan and western Siberia was ploughed for grain.
Topics that use Agricultural investment and the Virgin Lands Scheme
- Industrial and agricultural change, 1917–85 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Collectivisation
- Five Year Plans
- Fourth Five-Year Plan
- Limited reform under Brezhnev
- Nationalisation
- New Economic Policy
- State control
- War Communism
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