Collective farming

<p>Collective farming and communal farming are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise". There are two broad types of communal farms: <a href="/facts/Agricultural_cooperative/AuNzt8lu">agricultural cooperatives</a>, in which member-owners jointly engage in farming activities as a <a href="/facts/Collective/46AyTlC2">collective</a>; and state farms, which are owned and directly run by a centralized government. The process by which farmland is aggregated is called collectivization. In some countries (including the <a href="/facts/Soviet_Union/m7wWsPto">Soviet Union</a>, the <a href="/facts/Eastern_Bloc/12f32hA7">Eastern Bloc</a> countries, <a href="/facts/China/lTjIXY5p">China</a> and <a href="/facts/Vietnam/0ulfA8Eq">Vietnam</a>), there have been both state-run and cooperative-run variants. For example, the Soviet Union had both <a href="/facts/Kolkhoz/3QJB2geN">kolkhozy</a> (cooperative-run farms) and <a href="/facts/Sovkhoz/89vCoKwN">sovkhozy</a> (state-run farms).
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