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Appendix B
USSR: Average Realized 1970 Prices of
Agricultural Commodities
Grain _
The average price received by all producers for all
types of grain (103 rubles per ton) is calculated in
CIA, GNP 1970, p. 32. Average realized prices for
individual types of grain were estimated on the basis
of the variation among procurement prices paid to
collective farms for each grain in 1970 (table B-1).
The ratio of collective farm procurement prices for
individual grains to the overall grain price received by
collective farms is applied to the average grain price
received by all Soviet producers for all grain.
Potatoes
The average price received by all producers (1 I4
rubles per ton) is reported in CIA, GNP I970, p. 32.
Vegetables
The average price received by all producers (I63
rubles per ton) is reported in CIA, GNP I970, p. 32.
The relationship between state procurement prices for
all vegetables and for individual types of vegetables is
used to estimate average prices received by all produc-
ers for each vegetable (table B-2).
Table B-1
USSR: Derivation of 1970 Average Realized Prices
for Individual Types of Grain
v
~
Prices Received by
Collective Farms
(rubles per ton)
Ratio of Prices for.
i
Estimated Average
Individual Grains to Realized Price
Average Price (rubles per ton)“
for All Grain i
Total grain 101 1* '-°" _ ________
Wheat 101 b 1.00 103
Rye _ 1141» ~
1.13
T_ I W "7 I W I I
Buckwheat 300 '=
116
2.91
Rice '_ 300 d 2.97
C_orn I35 <=
_
306
1,34
Oats 81 b 0.80
Barley 80 b
g
306
0.79
Millet 80 b
Pulses 1 l l C
Other
I
60 4
H Vop ek, no. 1, 1973, p.57. '
b Calculated on the basis of data expressing 1970 procurement prices
as a percent of 1965 prices in A. I. Stepanov, Khleb rossii, Moscow,
I973, pp. 275-276 and V.P. Boyev, Zernovoyye i maslichnyye
kul’tury, no. 7, 1969, p. 9. k
C Actual I971 procurement prices received by collective farms. Since
the procurement price for wheat did not change between 1970 and
1971, the I971 prices for other grains are assumed applicable. The
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1971 prices are computed from data in V.P. Boyev. Sovershens!vo-
vaniye zakupochnykh tsen na sel 'sk0kh0zyays!vennu_vu pr0duk!-
siya, Moscow, p. I56 and in A. Ye. Kaminsk, Ekonomika zernovogo
khozyaystvo, Moscow, 1970, p.l88.
<1 List procurement prices are reported in G. V. Kulik et al.,
Spmvochnik economista kolkhoza i sovkhoza, Moscow, I970. p.
298.
= Calculated by multiplying column 2 times I03 rubles per ton.
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