ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE, FOREIGN TRADE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600150020-2
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• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 20
• Publication Date: August 27, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURRiTY IJFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
COUNTRY German Democratic Republic
Fa:onomi.c - Agriculture, foreign trade
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INFORMATION 1951
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PROCUI T, ]TI ORT6, AND STORAGE
OF GDk- MELT AID GRAIN SUPJ'LIEB
I. ACTIVITY REPORT OF TO GTh STATE SECRETARIAT FOR
PROCUREMENT AND PURCHASE OF AGRI CULTURAL PRODUCTS
Procurement is behind the quota in all Leender. According to the farmers
themselves, jp*stast difficulties are encountered in making deliveries of
seat, silk, and eggs. The farmers say that sufficient cattle are available,
but they are W. heavy enough for delivery.
Despite drastic measures taken, it has still not been possible to procure
the seat necessary to supply the population with the amount* to which their
ration cards entitle them and in addition to give the HO (Trade orgswi
rwhin-tree mat at higher prices. There are reports fres ell Lender that the
yeople queue up in front of butcher chops all day long to get a few greas of
meat and law..
In the State Secretariat itself renewed unrest has been caused by an order
which states that 30 - Iwo workers will have to be dismissed because they vrere
of wax of the Mestern Allies. Sams section chiefs will be affected
by this order; tore is no regard for the ability of persore involved. This
IStios will lead to further chaos in the already weak administration, and there
is danger of a catastrophe.
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,Aid Association) for distribution to farmers. But, since the contracts can-
t be conciided as planned, the I B cannot distribute the bran to the farmers.
'1 .s awns storing bran at the VDGB stations and at the mills,. to the point
wee It is becoming an obstruction and has caused production difficulties at
the mills.
this potato surplus will shOw up in the ft- l supply cannot yet be detereained.
A large part of the State Secretariat is busy drawing up plans for pro-
curement. In practice, these plans are never fulfilled, for as aeon as they
are drawn up they are superseded by nay ones. For example, plans have been
drawn up, within the framc+work of the 1951 a 1952 hog-fattening prom, for
conclu6ieg contracts for fattening 1,500,000 pigs, and the meat to be produced
has already been included in the, seat supply plan. However, the contracts can
never be concluded by' the farmers, because they are short of suckling pigs,
pig pens, and fodder. Rad result. uo pork for the plan.
However, the bran necessary for the misplanned h g-fattening contracts
is already being ground and is being delivered to then M6 (Farmer?s' Mutual
The 1951, early potato crop shove nisplencing. Too a ,y early potentoe5
were pleated, shich resulted in flooding the potato snrket. To what degree
The grain harvest is proceeding without difficulties. The end result
cannot yet be estimated-. The shortage of storage space caused by the fact that
the farmers are not trusted and are obliged to deliver their grain immediately
will soon result in halting the procurement operation.
II. SSORAOH SPAti"S FOR MUIR AAP OIISKEAS IN 1952
jht following information on storage space for grain and oil-
seeds is contained in a typewritten report dated Berlin,23 August
1951; preparing agency is not indicated)
1,917,000 (pain 60% of total harvest,
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Stocks as of 1 Jan 1952 1,950,0, (including 392,000 tons of state
reserves)
Purchases, let and 2d quarter 1952 22,000
Imports, let and 2d quarter 1952 1,150,000
Incoming by 30 Jun 1952 3,122,000
Minna sales, lot and 2d quarter
1952 1,910,000
1,212,000 (incIuiH1V 32,000 tons of state
reserves)
2,410,000 (figure tin from plan of
Niaiatrr=for Trade and Supply)
base storage space on 1 Jul 1952 f 9r-t'10198,000
Sts", as of 1 Jul 1952 '`;A ,2]2,000
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Imports
Incoming by 30 Sep 1950 3,i66,000
Stored at of 30 Sep 1952 1,676,000 (including 492,000 tons of state
Minus sales 3d quarter 1952 1, ,000
for feed, as shown in the control figures of the 1952 Economic Plan.
The available storage apace consists of the storage space of the VVEAB
(Federation of People-Owned Collection a'A Purchase Enterprises) and the stor-
age space of the processing industries; the space necessary for shifting stocks
has already been deducted (net storage space).
The figures for sales in the first and second quarters of 1952 include bath
sales of grain to processing; inlueti4es for the population and sales of grain
ports of oilseeds still:te'be received.
The figure for sales in the first, second, and third quarters of 1952 are
based on corresponding sales in those quarters in 1951.
The increase in state reserves by 100,000 torts, to 492,000 tons, was moved
up to the third quarter 1952, and is thus included in the 1952 procurement.
The expected shortage, of storage room as of 10 Sertember 1952, at w1i.h tine
60 percent of the grain harvest will have beer procured, means that no storage
space at all will be available for approximately 40 percent of the grain h st.
Even if sales -Po'- f-.. rirst three quarters of 1952 were calculated tov
and, may be 150,000-200,000 tons.higher, the fact remains that with a state re-
serve of approximately 5X,000 t in addition to a stock of 500-000-70etooo so
of 30 June 1952 (supply for third quarter 1952), the problem of storing with the
present storage capacity is insoluble. Stange space for 500,000 tons must be
made available or else imports must be reduced.
The blocking of 500,000 tons of storage space of the VVBAB, particularly
all mechanized storage facilities, by the state reserves vould mean diverting
the other stocks to small, nbnischsnized facilities. This voula not only mean
greater expense, but voull also have the inherent danger that it would be tech-
nically impossible to receive he imports and the overland shipments within the
(fit.
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Ton per No,
T'ms in F *b L. - Jul
Tom, anspartOtion Departsei t proposes that the 750,E tone of grain be
shhipped`,imi:at follovs from March to July:
Tons ser F[o
50,000
20,000
45,000
35,000
150,000
In csie +tinlos4ing should eterrt as early'' as February, the amounts can be
iistriiuted u$ rollovs, aaa ing there is no lengthy frost which would cu."tail
Overland
50,000
30,000
35,000
50.000
15,000
20,000
30,000
100,000
130,000
with a draft of 16 feet are available, 10,000-12,000 tons
gh the point of Stralsund. In that case the amounts for
r1a route are.. to be reduced accordingly. Since the dis-
id thesiloa in the OR ports is limited, the arrival
ai Sollows: Rostock -- no more than 2 ships every 3
i0s~s;iti9 oast ship every 2 days; Stralsund -- no'sore then
seta rjth'ths au provided for an unloading norm for grain cf
17 Or b tch. psi in the past few years have shown that
s1 fort the capari f the iastallatle+ns in (CDR ports. A
00 toss,prr day par hatch vohld be'sore "damnable. The non-
250 anioo1thg j is has led to nuaeroua claims and deaur-
' hW4114 of Rain tiUspo atioa `hero should be :
IIWe notification Vba+ a train leaves the OW-Polish border,
:'type of grain, asant, and nrsber of carloads.
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ghia:hotification of steassr isparture, with .retails as to
6it7,.aod port of destimatios.
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it the reamer takes less than, 3 days frog port of departure to unloading
point, to ,agreapbic notification sf the proposed departure 'of the steamer should
be given es soonn 4 it is ready to be loaded. Such notification would make it
possible to arise. gate of the necessary preparsations for unloading and the necessary
tvij"rtation space. The -Statistical Graph of Steamer Movement" published last
ylslla+'by the trade representatives of the USSR is not adequate data for such prep-
arations,
Captains of Soviet vessels should send messages through the con,?tal radio
station on RUeSbU to advise the shipping agents in the unloading ports of. their
arrival.
As was learned &t a nesting at the German Foreign Trade Agency for Food-
stuffseon 8 February 1951, a 50,000-ton monthly turnover is provided for Re-
stock, This quantity in definitely too high. According to avmilmbla reports,
the capacity of V'rAB (People-Owned Collection and Purchase enterprise} .Rostov
i?j about-1,000 tons for silos I and IT every 24 hours, and 600 tons for silos
III and IV every 24 hours. The time needed for warping toe ships Into the
dock is not taken into account in this estimate.
If an average of 1,400 tons can be handled daily, this would amount to
42,000 tens per month. However, this would mean that the suction installa-
tions were used without interruption, which may not be possible considering
their run-down cordltion. The installations should not be required to do
Wore than 35,000 tons per month.
Incrssaed amounts could be handled if conveyer belto were used. however,
this is dependent on weather conditions and would mean an increase in costs.
The required daily unloading of 250 tons per hatch per ship cannot be
guarahteed in every case. In case additional unloading should be dose with
cone-.vr belts, it will be necessary to decide on the weight to be used ors
the basis for billing. Quantities unloaded by conveyer belts cannot go into
silos but suit be put directly into freight cars. It is suggested that the
weight determined by railroad officials should be used at first. However,
-thus often differs considerably from the more exact weights determined by the
the pressing enterprise.
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