Labour Cooperative Agricultural Farm

The TKZS were initially and by design voluntarily created, but the mass collectivization of land often led to violent measures to socialize the property of a large part of the rural owners - especially the richest.

Unlike the later structure of the TKZS, it provided for the preservation of the private property of the members and the payment of rent in the amount of 40% of the farm's income.

[4] In the spring of 1945, the first voluntary associations for collective land cultivation were formed as departments of the existing structures of the all-round cooperative in the villages.

With share contributions from its members, it supported them on the principle of a mutual aid fund and developed credit and commercial activities for the purchase of agricultural production and the sale of goods to the population.

In order to avoid political conflict and resistance to the policies of the Bulgarian Communist Party, an accelerated "reconstruction" of agriculture was undertaken, including:[5] To overcome the crisis in agricultural production, in September 1969, at the September Plenum of the Central Committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party, a decision was made to reunify the TKZS, moving towards the creation of agro-industrial complexes (AICs).

[6] According to historian Mihail Gruev, the creation of the TKZS confirmed and strengthened the relative tolerance in Bulgarian society towards thefts of public property, which had been noted in earlier periods.