Inter-Farm Enterprises, Associations and Organisations in the USSR, large enterprises of an industrial mould with extensive marketable production founded on interfarm cooperation, i. e., the pooling of the means, material and technical and labour resources of the collective and state farms and other enterprises and organisations. They are a new stage of implementing Lenin’s plan for cooperation in a mature socialist society relying on specialisation and concentration of agricultural production on the basis of inter-farm cooperation and agro-industrial integration (see Integration, Agro-Industrial, under Socialism). In a developed socialist society, relations of collectivism are on the 173 upgrade in the village, the level of socialisation of the collective farm economy increases, and state socialist property ( belonging to all the people) and collective farm-and-cooperative property steadily merge. New forms of production associations are being created in the state-farm sector: specialised trusts, firms, production, scientific-production and other associations. Collective and state farms cooperate on an increasingly broad scale with enterprises processing farm produce, with trade and transport organisations and with organisations engaged in the technical servicing of agriculture. Agro-industrial enterprises and associations, which include specialised collective and state farms, canning and other processing enterprises, farm products storage depots and trade organisations, are being established and multiply on this basis. Inter-collective-farm building organisations play an important role. Interfarm cooperation, which raises the level of socialised production in agriculture, accelerates the pace of its development. Specialised farms and associations can more rapidly introduce the achievements of science and technology, rationally use material and technical means and labour resources, lower the cost of product, (cost price), and improve its quality. Livestock farming on collective and state farms, which produces today most of the meat, milk and wool, can utilise their capacities to the full. The establishment of the state and inter-farm livestock complexes and enterprises is combined with the development of livestock farming on collective and state farms, greater specialisation, greater concentration of livestock, the creation of a solid fodder basis, and the introduction on these farms of mechanisation and advanced technology.