To help the vegetable farmers in collective farms (1954)

Work in the repair workshop of tractors in Viljandi county, Estonia.

Exterior view of the workshop. According to the decisions of the Communist Party's plenum held in September, the workshop manufactures agricultural machinery, such as machines for making the nutrient cubes of peat manure needed by vegetable farmers. Voiceover introducing the frontrunners: assembler Heinrich Ole and repairmen Ero Eilonen, Serafim Trubetskoi and Aleksander Org working on the machines for nutrient cubes. Slogan on the wall of the workshop saying: "We support the further rise of agriculture for the day of the elections to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on March 14, 1954 by releasing 300 sets of PAM 5,5-20 aggregates." Voiceover emphasizes that 300 machines will be ready for the election day. A finished product on the screen. Representatives of collective farms are being taught how to operate the machine that can produce up to 45 000 nutrient cubes a day. A close-up of the nutrient cube held by hand. The cubes will soon be used to grow vegetable plants, which will increase the harvested crop and its quality. The act of delivery and receipt of the equipment will be signed. The machines are lined up on the snow, and the collective farmers will take them one by one and leave. Voiceover: "These simple and cheap machines will be of great help in supplying cities with fresh vegetables."

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