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From: nrh@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Thu, 31-Jan-85 04:19:47 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 31 04:19:47 1985
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Nf-From: inmet!nrh    Jan 30 01:53:00 1985

In a recent article, I stated, without attribution, that the 20% of
the private farms in the Soviet Union supplied about 80% of their food.

I still can't remember where I heard this, but rather than simply
let it go unsupported, let me give you (this time with attribution)
some related information:

	Yet even in this hidebound society, private enterprise
	flourishes -- where it is given the chance.  In the countryside,
	peasant plots make up 2 percent of the Soviet Union's farmland
	-- and supply 30% of all meat, milk and vegetables and 60% of
	all potatoes.

					U.S. News & World Report
					Feb 4, 1985 (pull date)
					pp 42.

I suspect that my original statistic, if correct, probably referred to
non-peasant, but nonetheless relatively autonomous agencies.  Perhaps
someone else knows where it came from?