Editing Holodomor (section)

==== Low harvest ====
According to historian [[Stephen G. Wheatcroft]], the grain yield for the Soviet Union preceding the famine was a low harvest of between 55 and 60 million tons,{{sfn|Davies|Wheatcroft|2004|pp=xix–xxi}} likely in part caused by damp weather and low traction power,{{sfn|Wheatcroft|2018}} yet official statistics mistakenly reported a yield of 68.9 million tons.{{sfn| Marples|2002}} (A single ton of grain is enough to provide a good bread ration containing {{circa|2350}} kCal per person for three people for one year.){{sfn|Davies|Tauger|Wheatcroft|1995|p=643}} Historian Mark Tauger has suggested that drought and damp weather were causes of the low harvest.{{sfn|Tauger|2001|p=45}} Mark Tauger suggested that heavy rains would help the harvest while Stephen Wheatcroft suggested it would hurt it which Natalya Naumenko notes as a disagreement in scholarship.{{sfn|Naumenko|2021}} Another factor which reduced the harvest suggested by Tauger included endemic plant rust.{{sfn|Tauger|2001|p=39}} However, in regard to plant disease Stephen Wheatcroft notes that the Soviet extension of sown area combined with lack of crop rotation may have exacerbated the problem,{{efn|name=Davies 2004, p. 437}} which Tauger also acknowledges in regard to the latter.<ref name="TaugerQianCritique" />