The harvest of 1933 was 9 million tonnes less than that of 1926. The number of livestock decreased.

The number of horses halved between 1928-32. Collectivisation caused discontent amongst peasants. Grain exports rose from 0.03 million tonnes in 1928 to over 5 million tonnes in 1931. In 1930 approximately 25% of peasant households were collectivized. The amount of grain produced fell from 1926. Few farms could afford the new machinery. The amount of grain procured and exported increased. Millions of peasants died as a result of the man made famine. Robert Conquest estimates 7 million (5 million in the Ukraine) alone. The standard of living for industrial workers fell. Collectivisation was a means of controlling the countryside. The party no longer had to bargain with the peasants, instead agriculture served the towns/workers. The government blamed kulak spirit for poor harvests which led to suspicion of urban workers towards the peasants The industrial population increased from 18% in 1928 to 50% in 1939. Grain harvests dropped in the early 1930s and did not recover to their 1928 level until the latter half of the 1930s Collectivisation failed to unite the workers and peasants. The amount of meat consumed by urban workers fell by 2/3 from 1928 to 1932. The MTS s did not make significant improvements in making agriculture more productive. Labour productivity declined. Party leaders blamed the kulaks and peasant sabateurs for the problems Russia was experiencing. Peasants fled to the towns/cities and so the workforce grew.

Collectivisation failed to raise agricultural production. Approximately 10,000 people were exiled as part of dekulakisation. Collectivisation increased Stalins authority.