ECONOMIC - NATURAL RUBBER CULTIVATION

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 23, 2011
• Sequence Number: 407
• Publication Date: March 21, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENiRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORTI
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COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT IconoSic = Natural rubber cultivation
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PUBLISHED Daily nevepaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
1, -JLISHED 27 and 30 July 1948
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INFORMATION 1948
DATE DIST. 2 )larch 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
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REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOURCE Sovietmewspaper as indicated. (IuforVataou,xeq,?eated.)
'ECK-SAS PRCIDTr^IION B00S= : i B11L0 TUSSTA
S13CI L *AS=S ! 10B-SAGZZ PWDUCTiON -- Sovetskaya Bolorassiya,
No 150, 30 Jul. 48
The Coma wetrt Part: and the Soviet Government axe making every effort to
creato their own source; of rubber. The basic rubber-bearing plant in the USSR
is kok-sag9z. Up to 15 percent of rubber is found in the dried roots of the
kok-aegyz plant.
The February 1948 Plenum of the Central Committee of the 8EP (b) srno'anced.
that the Soviet Union's stable sources of rubber should be set up certain the
shortest possible time, chiefly in Belorussia, the Ukraine,
other regions of the USS[t.
Kok-sagyz vas first introduced into Belorussia in 1934. The area sown
to kok-sagyz want be increased many times in the near future. It is planned,
under the conditions existing in Belorussia, to cultivate kok-sagyz in dried
pest bogs.
M government of the in U 9i Measures have been?taken o mechanize
to be us, ca caring fo tha z the youcg crops, and harvesting. This year the ESs vill
aowiig aconsiderable nder r beamount a
g plc, o1' etc Thepplaan for LESS working the workwwill here-
b~; as bog plows, disk kharrow;,
of'tko considered. i d completed. The goverment also also for the recam?ende _extra wages for
of kk-ssgyz
kok-sus-r-z growers.
Gathering of the kok-segyz seeds has begun in Rudenskiy, Pukhovichskiy,
Rogachevekiy, Saoi3:ri 'r+a;, eeia;, her rayons- ?&invei; the seed-gathering is
poorly organized, and, ripe seeds are scattered by the wild. Seed; ehu11 be
collected from all fruit-bearing plants. This should be don as soon as the
kok-segyz begins to bear fruit, and there should be at least three collections
a day. Young ),lanes ahonld be giveit?phosphorous and potassium fertilizers.
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Violations of the agricultural technology established for kok-segyz cultivation
will. be punished.
SOg-SAGYZ KOLXHOZES IMIVB C ,ATIONS -- Sovetekega Belorusaiya, No 148,
27 Jul ,i8
Indiriduals'workingon the. folloving koikhozes of Belorussian SSa received
medals for "Labor Valor? and "Labor Distinction" for expanding prodl.uction and
increasing yields of kok-sa Z An 1947: "13 Lest Oktyabrya" Rogachevskiy Rayon,
Gomel' Oblast; r7eranoga," ,.,,abnnakiy Bayou, Bobrayek Oblast; "12 Sastrychnik,"
Vaeilevichnkiy Rayon, Polesa'ye Oblast; "Sbiyaskh I11ich," Starodorozhakiy Rayon,
Bobr akOblast; "Zvetda," Domanoviohekiy Rayon, Polesm'ye Oblast; "Toaeomobete,"
Itignbanakiy Rayon, Bobruyak Oblast; "IId.arnik," Lyubanakiy Rapt, Bobruyek Oblast;
"Progress," Lyubanekiy Rayon, Bobruysk Oblast; "?ovyy Suet," Staarodorozhekiy Rayon,
Bobrr ak oblast; Solkhos:inoniLanii, Igubanakiy Rayon, Bobruyak Oblast;$oikhoz
imeni Molotov, Vasilevichekiy Rayo;z, Po1eas'ye Oblast; Solkhoz imeni Daitrov,
Rogachevskiy Rayon Gomm1' Oblast; "Chervone,,Ta Zmana," Igibannkly Rayon, Bobo ek
Oblast; "Zolotays Dabrova," Vbsilevichekiy Rayon, Poless'ye Oblast; "Pyatiletka,"
Smoleviohekiy Rayon, llinekOblast.
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