Integration, Agro-Industrial, under Socialism, close interaction and meshing of agriculture and industry, their interpenetration, and the organic fusion of agricultural and industrial production. Agro-industrial integration is based on profound qualitative changes in the development of agriculture itself and of other sectors of the economy (industry, transport, trade, etc.) servicing agriculture. Branches of industry which supply the collective and state farms with machinery and equipment, as well as industrial enterprises and organisations which provide technical services to. the farmers play an especially important role. Today, some traditional operations and processes in agriculture are branching off and becoming part of the industrial sphere. This is particularly true of finishing products, technical services, etc. Farms are more intensely interacting with industrial enterprises which process agricultural raw materials, and with procurement, transport and trade organisations. The reason for this is that the farms are larger, more diversified, and are increasingly concentrating their production. When each farm produces and sells a great quantity of products, flaws in the work of allied sectors can seriously impair the course of its work. Delays in slaughtering cattle or selling vegetables and fruit lead to direct production losses and non-productive expenditures. The interaction of all spheres of the agro-industrial 168 complex, unified planning and the proportional, balanced development of all its sectors must provide the country with food and agricultural raw materials, and yield high final results. There are many forms of agro-industrial integration, each depending on the level of development of agriculture and allied sectors, on sectoral and zonal features, and on other factors. In the USSR, one of the forms is the agroindustrial enterprise of the factory-state, farm type, when, for instance, a state farm joins forces with a factory manufacturing a certain product. A more complex form is the agro-industrial association, comprising collective and state farms, industrial enterprises, procurement and trade organisations, and enterprises processing farm produce. Specific forms of integration are evolving in the sphere of material and technical services to collective and state farms. Agro-industrial integration is a new stage of implementing the ideas of Lenin’s cooperative plan under developed socialism. It encourages expanded and more effective production and better socio-economic relations in the countryside, and brings working and living conditions in the rural areas closer to those found in urban life.