Collective farming: Difference between revisions

'''Collective farming''' and '''communal farming''' are various types of "agricultural production in which multiple farmers run their holdings as a joint enterprise".<ref>Definition of collective farm in ''The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary'', Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993.</ref> There are two broad types of communal farms: [[agricultural cooperative]]s, in which member-owners jointly engage in farming activities as a [[collective]],; 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 [[Soviet Union]], the [[Eastern Bloc]] countries, [[China]] and [[Vietnam]]), there have been both state-run and cooperative-run variants. For example, the Soviet Union had both [[kolkhoz]]y (cooperative-run farms) and [[sovkhoz]]y (state-run farms).