For instance, in Uzbekistan the traditional household plots are now called dehkan farms and in Ukraine the Russian abbreviation ЛПХ has been replaced with OСГ (from Ukrainian: osobysti selyanski hospodarstva).
In the later 19th century the growth of towns and cities in central Russia encouraged the development of market gardening and truck farming in this region.
[2] The mass collectivization decree of January 1930 made no mention of garden plots, and in many areas the local Communist authorities abolished them.
No maximum size was agreed at this stage, however, and the garden plot remained in a legislative limbo until the kolkhoz model charter of February 1935.
The private plots were responsible for a significant fraction of agricultural production, and provided the peasants with a large part of their food and income.
By the late 1930s market gardening, with the private plot as its base, was perhaps becoming the dominant part of agriculture in the Black-Sea hinterland and the truck-gardening areas around big cities like Moscow and Leningrad.