Agricultural Production and Farmers' Organization after Privatization of State Farm (Sovkhoz) in Kazakhstan

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  • SHIMIZU Katsuyuki
    Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science, Osaka Prefecture University
  • NAKAGIRI Takao
    Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science, Osaka Prefecture University
  • WATANABE Tsugihiro
    Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science, Osaka Prefecture University
  • OGINO Yoshihiko
    Graduate School of Agriculture and Life Science, Osaka Prefecture University

Bibliographic Information

Other Title
  • カザフスタンにおけるソフホーズ解体後の農場生産体制と農民組織
  • Water management and farmland conservation in the irrigated agriculture in the Aral Sea Basin (II)
  • アラル海流域の灌漑農業における用水管理と農地保全 (II)

Abstract

This paper discusses the current problems of the irrigated agriculture in the left bank of the Kzylorda region, the lower Syrdarya River in Kazakhstan. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Sovkhozes and Kolkhozes, which were the basic unit of agricultural production during the past Soviet Union period, have been restructured to cooperative farms or private farms. It was revealed that privatization process of the state farms was suffering from the following problems. 1) Reduction of productivity due to the lack of agricultural machines and fuel, 2) uncontrol (less control) of the rotational cropping-pattern resulting in the increase in the rice cropped area in the farmland cultivated by the private farmers, 3) increased risk on agricultural sustainability caused by the increasing rice mono culture, which may destroy the current water and salt management system in the farm, 4) malfunctions of water management organizations which were embodied into the Sovkhoz or Kolkhoz systems. These technical and social problems and their relations were identified and analyzed to give the priorities to the measures for the improved agricultural production in this region.

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Details 詳細情報について

  • CRID
    1390282679519884288
  • NII Article ID
    130004348382
  • DOI
    10.11408/jsidre1965.2001.135
  • ISSN
    18847234
    03872335
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • CiNii Articles
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    Disallowed

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