V. I. Lenin

Addendum to the Draft Decree for The C.P.C. on a Department for Organising the Cultivated Area {1}

The Commissariats for Agriculture and for Food are directed to take
urgent measures to reduce spring crop undersowing to a minimum, to develop
market gardening, and to make preparations for winter crop sowing both on
peasant lands and by means of organising crop cultivation by the
state.

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Notes:
{1}
The draft decree was considered at a meeting of the C.P.C. Commission
on April 25, 1918. The commission approved the decree on May 2, 1918. and
on the same day it was endorsed by the C.P.C. with this addendum of
Lenin’s and published on May 10 in Izvestia No. 91 (see
Decrees of the Soviet Government , Vol. If, Moscow, 1959,
pp. 212-16).