AGRICULTURAL ADVANCES

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
SUBJECT Agricultural Advances
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2. Far-reaching irrigation projects are being carried out in all of China.
Among the irrigation plans of special importance are:
a. Dike building on the Yang-Tze-Kiang, in the province of Anhweia
b. About 3,200 wells and the construction of small storage basins,
in the province of Hunan (not Honan).
c. Construction of 349 new dikes, in the province of Shensi during 1953.
d. Three hundred kilometers of flood dikes and 370 kilometers of
drainage ditohes, in the proy?ince of Hopei. (There is some
question whether Hopei or Hopei is meant here.)
e. Thirty-seven large electric pumping stations on the coast, east of
Tientsin; meant to supply water to about 14,000 hectares.
3. In the provinces of Shensi, Kansu, and Shansi, sixteen survey groups of
Vopographers, geologists, botanists, and hydrologists are exploring the
headwaters of the Yellow River, perhaps 360,000 square. kilometers. Extensive
construction here is planned, in order to bring the river under control.
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a n: he Taho''ang tnpounding dam on the Un Ho, of
,''mats :>econd largest dam of this sort, is now
being built, (.'h= iar est is the Kuanting impounding dam near
Peiping) . The has!,. at Tahofang ha., a capacity of 1,$59,000
cubi.. net_rs. It to e completed in 1'76. It is to water
a wide acricuit:ral a:ea'and
factories, provide for the needs of shops,
teries. and pine:;, Mukden and :Fushun.
b. Per.gpu: The Paisha ln.poun:ling dam, when completed, will make it
possible to grow wheat In an area where, hitherto, agriculture
of any kind has been almost impossible. The Paisha dam lies in
the Yusien district of the province of Honan, on the upper course of
the Yenho, a tributary of the Husi.
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ers west:-northwest of rengyang. However, Yusien and the Yinho
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the effort to regulate the Huai Ho which has occupied, or will occuPY
a tremendous labor force for three years. In this vicinity, nineteen
impounding dams have been built, among the largest being those of Poshan
and the Hung Ho (left tributary of the Huai Ho). The very largest of
these, the list Se Line dam is nearing completion. In an effort to control
the lower course of the Huai Ho, in or near the Hungtze
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hundred kilometers north-northeast of Nan King) a new kilometers long, is being made. In addition, on the lower course of the
Huai Ho, 697 kilometers of "moveable dam" is being built.
6. Work on the Huai project has,thus far involved the moving of 600,000,000
cubic meters of earth. The Huai project was begun in 1950 and is
expected to be finished by 1955.
7. Irrigation works .in the province of Anhwei for the year 1954 al?-
800,000 hectares. From this, an increase in vegetable production of
more than 60,000 tons is anticipated. Hofei is also called Lutschou.
It is directly north of the Tschao Lake and 130 kilometers southwest of
Nanking.
$. During the year 1954, it is planned to build in Kwangtung eight large
and 20,000 small. projects, for irrigation and Impounding. This will
irrigate half a million hectares. To this large scale plan belongs
the proposed building of a dike, fifty kilometers long, in the deltadike
of the Pearl River, begun in 1953 and to be finished in 1955.
will protect 4,000 hectares from flood.
9. Measures to prevent dust storms are probably being taken in the eastern
part of the province of Ningsin, where more than 10,000 hectares
were made useless by wind-driven sand. Thorough studies of the possibility
of reforestation are now being made. The territory concerned is east of the
Ho-lan Mountains ax-,d ..cot of the Yellow River. The reforestation program
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10. In and around Lhasa, agricultural specialists have been studying the
possibilities of development in Tibet. The entire Tibetan plateau
has good soil and can -be made a green, productive area. Thus far,
it has been shown that potatoes and rye can be grown up to 1,200 meters
above sea level, and that wheat, millet, beans, hemp, cabbage, tomatoes,
and many kinds of vegetables are at least possible. Experiments with
winter rye give a production per hectare of 8.5 tons..
11. China now has more than 2,151 agricultural experiment stations, with more
than 18,000 specialists, large laboratories, and nearly 70,000 hectares
of land for experimental. plots. One-of the greatest successes of the
agricultural service has been its use of the insect ponder 11666" against
grasshoppers. This powder is not yet produced in China itself, in adequate
quantity. The most important factory is the "Insecticide and Spraying
Machine Factory' in Shangsai. This employs 20Q workers and in 1953
produced about '1,000 kilograms of insect powder and thousands of?kilograms
of dusts. It produces primarily insacticides for use on cotton and vegetables.