What contributed to the failure of collective farms (kolkhozys) in the Soviet Union?

Idk , but collective farming traditionally has some major problems .

Farms are places that need to maintained by the same person throughout that persons life. It can take a lifetime just to learn how a certain stretch of land works, how it acts in the spring , what its dew levels in the morning are. To be a farmer requires multiple life times to perfect.

If what I hear about collective farms is correct, that they all were a hedge against unemployment and anybody could work there as a starting job, then I could see multiple problems with collective farms that result from the way high turnover rate from employees.

If people are constantly coming in and leaving, then nobody ever masters that piece of land. The land remains a mystery, and when famine strikes nobody knows what to do anymore .

I am criticizing collective farming, just saying that pieces of earth are not like a factory, earth is alive and a lot harder to master then melted iron .

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