SOVIET AGRICULTURAL POLICY IN THE 1980 |
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| Authors: | Anton F. Malish |
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| Affiliation: | Chief of the Eastern Europe and USSR Branch in USDAls Economic Research Service. Before joining USDA, Mr. Maiish served on the U.S. Delegation t o the Multilateral Trade Negotiations in Geneva, with the U.S. international Trade Commission, and as an officer in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps. He has written extenslveiy on the agriculture of the Soviet Union. |
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| Abstract: | During the early 1960s. the USSR entered a stage where the pent-up forces for a higher standard of living no longer could be ignored. These forces showed in an increased demand for high-quality food products, particularly meat, and raised Soviet demand for feed grains. The Soviets came to rely increasingly on the world grain market for these—particularly on the United States. Nonetheless, consumer discontent over food supplies and the reliance on imported grain was a strategic weakness which the United States sought to exploit in 1980. The USSR reacted by formulating a IIFood PrOgramI1 that is the basis of today's Soviet agricultural policy. Its implications for trade could be significant. |
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