Under the Great Leap Forward, what was the primary form of agricultural organization implemented?

• A. Private farming
• B. Collectivized farms
• C. Subsistence farming
• D. Sharecropping

Answer: (B)

The main idea being tested is the shift to collectivized farming. During the Great Leap Forward, the government pushed peasants to pool land, tools, and labor into large, community-run units rather than farming as independent families. This meant agriculture was organized as collectivized farms or people’s communes, with ownership and decision-making centralized by the state or the collective rather than by individual households. The goal was to increase production and support rapid industrialization, but it replaced private farming with large-scale collective farms.

Private farming would keep land and resources in individual hands, which the movement sought to dissolve. Subsistence farming describes small-scale, household-focused farming primarily to feed the family, not the large-scale, state-directed collectivization of the period. Sharecropping involves tenants working land owned by others for a share of the crops, which also conflicted with the push for collective ownership and operation.