First Five Year Plan (1953-1957)

The importance of agriculture clearly comes to the fore in the big poster below that, amongst others, explains what the industrial equivalents are of major agricultural crops (xxx tonnes of pork bellies equal xxx tonnes of steel, xxx tonnes of wool equal one MIG fighter jet, etc.).

The poster below left shows what the results of sticking to the plan will be: before the plan, an xxx amount, after the completion of the plan, an xxx + amount. One of the most important ways in which these results should be accomplished is by continuing the policy of collectivization (below right).

And the favorable effects of collectivization are illustrated in detail in the two posters below.

In the subsequent illustrations, various specific guidelines are given to increase agricultural production: increasing the acreage of reclaimed land and the planned production of of high quality and high-yielding foodcrops (below left); and effective use of land and the development of agriculture in mountainous areas (below right).

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