Abstract: Focuses on the need to increase the contribution of personal household plots (PHP) to agricultural trade in the Soviet Union. Importance of PHP in the production of agricultural products; Role of consumer cooperatives in ensuring the prompt and maximal purchase of PHP surplus output; Importance of the creation of trade service offices at collective farm markets for the development of PHP.

　　Subjects: SURPLUS agricultural commodities; PRODUCE trade; CONSUMER cooperatives; SOVIET Union; Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Merchant Wholesalers; Fruit and Vegetable Markets; PRIVATE plot agriculture