As state and cooperative farms prevailed in the Eastern countries, early collecting of landraces (prior to the formation of collective farms) turned out to be critical for rescuing this diversity. Considerable differences existed among Eastern European countries with respect to farm size and degree of state control. The private structure of Polish agriculture allowed landraces to be found as recently as in the 1980s (Hammer and Hanelt 1979; Hammer et al. 1981). In the neighbouring Czechoslovakia with cooperative and state farms, landraces had mostly been maintained only in relatively remote areas (Kühn et al. 1976) or in some very traditional farming environments, such as under slash-and-burn cultivation (Kühn and Hammer 1979).
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