the agricultural sector went into a profound debt crisis in the second half of the s and resources were withdrawn massively from production by the early s about million hectares on which crops had been grown a decade earlier were no longer used and livestock inventories in the former collective farm sector fell to of their level in agricultural output more than halved during the s a decline that has still not been fully reversed even though it bottomed out at the end of that decade these reforms accelerated in the next decade after a largescale financial rehabilitation that also included bankruptcies of a large number of former state farms