The years 1928- 1964 saw both stalin and Khrushchev attempt to reform soviet agriculture for various different reasons - stalin to feed industrial workers and ensure the ussr catches up to the west, and Khrushchev in order to improve living conditions. However, both failed to completely modernise soviet agriculture. Modernisation means to use technology to increase efficiency, soi for soviet agriculture to have been modernised there would need to be policies put into place that significantly increased both the efficiency and level of production of soviet agriculture. However, the soviet agricultural sector remained extremely ineffecient for much of this time period (mainly due to stalin’s policies of collectivisation and industrialisation leading to Long term, systematic problems exacerbated by Khrushchev’s mechanisation and VLS). There was some modernisation achieved, but this was accompanied by inefficiency and food shortages, meaning it is accurate ti say that that their attempts to modernise were ultimately failures

Collectivisation was one policy that failed to modernise soviet society. Although it was on the whole a success in achieving stalin’s specific aims of grain procurement - By 1933 grain procurement doubled (10.8 mil - 22.6 mil), and grain exports rose from under 1 million in 1928 to 5 million in 1931 - The methods used were extremely inefficient, actually lowering grain production to much lower than NEP levels as over 80 million tons were produced in 1930 but only 69 mil in 1931. Such a sharp increase in such a short time was mainly due to the extremely low labour productivity that plagued the workers due to a lack of incentive and the forced aquisition of their grain - a widely unpopular move which led to farmers purposefully burning their crops and killing their livestock in protest - 118 million animals died total, including 60 million sheep and goat.