The author emphasizes that while the problem of regulating agricultural production is becoming one of the most urgent tasks, the government's participation in strategic measures to develop agriculture cannot be considered satisfactory.

In July 1973 the Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences and the Siberian Department of the Soviet Sociological Association, together with the Institute of Economics of Agriculture of the Siberian Branch of the V. I....