THE AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SYSTEM OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION: PAST AND FUTURE

✍ Scribed by C. E. PRAY; J. R. ANDERSON

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0954-1748
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1328(199706)9:4<517::aid-jid461>3.0.co;2-3

✦ Synopsis

In recent times, the agricultural research establishment of the Soviet Union represented a signi®cant portion, some say more than one-quarter, of the global agricultural research system. Things have changed in several respects, even well before the break-up of the Union, mainly involving a variety of reductions in the eective capacity of the establishment. Most recently, this has been through severe underfunding of the many facilities that continue `in service'. For many years, however, the system has shown symptoms of bloated bureaucracy, a situation not unknown elsewhere in the Soviet administration. The patchy data on various aspects of the research system, past and present, are presented and critically assessed as a prelude to developing sensible stances on investment and rationalization in the agricultural research systems of the Former Soviet Union.