Soviet poster : road to corn.

Stagnation in the development of agricultural production was observed even in those areas that were the main suppliers of grain to the domestic market. Khrushchev tried to overcome it in several ways: plowing millions of hectares of virgin lands, decentralizing the system of agricultural planning-only plans for the procurement of field cropping and livestock products, rather than plans for crops, were to be brought to agricultural enterprises-but more than anything else, his attempt to plant fodder and corn crops.