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In the end if 70-ies and beginning of 80-ies agruculture was booming in USSR. Read your book until the end.

Is that why they were importing grain from the US and Canada?

Booming != effective. Look around SV, how many companies produce genuine value?

Anyway, even agricultural output grew in USSR until mid-80ies and, importantly, salaries were at least double of city workers' salaries.