Agriculture In Estonia
Like the rest of the economy, agriculture in Estonia has been in great flux since the degeneration of the Collective farm, collective and Sovkhoz, state farm systems. History In 1991 roughly 12 percent of the labor force was employed in agriculture, producing 15.4 percent of Estonia's Gross domestic product, GDP. Estonia has 985,000 hectares of utilised agricultural land, 707,000 hectares of which are Arable land, arable. During the Soviet era, arable land decreased by nearly 405,000 hectares, much becoming forest. Collectivization in the late 1940s and 1950s brought great hardship to Estonian agriculture, which during the first independence period had been the mainstay of Estonian society. Still, Estonian agriculture remained more productive than the Soviet average. In 1990 there were 221 collective and 117 state farms with an average of 350 to 400 workers each. The average livestock herd per farm included 1,900 cattle and 2,500 pigs. Estonia was a net exporter of meat and mil ...
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Vilama TÜ Laudad
Vilama is a village in Kose Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia. (retrieved 27 July 2021) Gallery File:Vilama kuivati.JPG, Vilama grain dryer File:Vilama.JPG, Vilama hill References

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