Abstract
The existence of personal household plots of collective farmers, workers, employees, and other citizens in addition to social production on collective farms and state farms and at interfarm, agro-industrial, and other enterprises and associations is an important feature of socialist agriculture in the USSR. Although the country's ever greater need for food and agricultural raw materials is, for the most part, satisfied through production by socialist enterprises and associations, the total utilization of the capacities of citizens' personal household plots for the production of meat, milk, eggs, potatoes, vegetables, fruit, and other agricultural products is also of major significance.