 They are also often referred to (especially in official statistical publications) as хозяйства населения (), i.e., plots (or farms) of rural residents (where the term “rural residents” is used to distinguish them from peasant farmers).This Russian terminology was universally accepted in all former Soviet countries until the early 1990s, but a certain terminological divergence has since emerged in the newly independent states.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