ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600220581-3
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 581
• Publication Date: April 27, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIF IION
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY '?ulga.:ia
SUBJECT Economic - agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily afivalrapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Sofia
DATE
PUBLISHED .?"Zx 1949
LANGUAGE Bu:a?r.L-::
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SOURCE Bulgarian s-ewspapero as i.ndiotsted.
DATE DIST. ~ f Apr 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
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COIITTRACTB . W1T GROWERS -- Otechestven Front, No 1384, 2 Mar 49
Ths Ministry of Internal Trade announces that all truck farmers who have
signed contracts to deliver their satire l,.odnotian to crop-purchase orgeni-
zations will be entitled to regulw supplies of flop and bread. Producers
who do not alga will be excluded from these .snpplies.
Producers of vegetables, otrawberries, raspberries, roses, fruit, and
apes who turn over their p-oduce to the crop-psrolwe organizations under
Contracts ,Gill be relieved cf the obligation to deliver meat end eggs.
For each ton of vegetables delivered to the. crep parcbase organizations
under a contract, the Main Administration of Food. Supply will furnish pro-
dnaers with 30 kilograms of in per person up to a maximum of 280 kilograms
to 11 one meaber of a family (or with a ooorrespooding amount of flour) and
with 10 kilogram of concentrated fodder.
Producers of red peppers will receive, for each ton of fresh or hundred
kilogram of dried peppers, 30 kilograms of grain and 25 kilograms of ccooen-
trated fodder each. For delivering 100 kilograms of dried red peppers, they
will receive 5 kilograms of ground red pepper for their own use or for sale
at free prices.
Producers of red peppers will be allowed to buy artificial fertilizer at
35 lava per kilogram of amonium nitrate and 8 lava per kilogram of superphos-
phate.
The Main; Dirw4tarate of Food Supply will furnish producers of straw-
berries and raspberries with 40 kilograms each of grain (or a corr.eponding
amount of flour) and 20 kilograms of ecaoeotrated fodder for each deoare of
land newly planted :n these crops. The same orgmiiation will provide 10
kilogrow, of grain (or a oovreepomcling amount of flour) and 5 kilograms of
ocnsentrated. fodder for each LCO kilogram of strawberries delivered., or 20
kilog-+us of grain (or a oo.reepon ..ng quantity of flour) and 10 kilograms of
concentrated fodder for each 100 ki]ogtems of wespberrise, not later than ono
month after the end of deliveries in a locality.
STAT
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In no came may deliveries of grain exceed 280 kilograms of grain to oser
member of a family or 300 kilograms of ccmoentrated fodder per head of large
livestock.
Artificial fertilizer will be supplied to growers of red peppers, straw-
berries, and raspberries at 35 lava per kilogram of ammonium nitrate, 18 lava
for anoWdme sulfate, and 8 lava for superphosphate.
. ocordir to an announcement by the Council of ministers, the 19149 plan
for agrio alture ,r* 11 be increased by 19 percent mad for livestock-raising by
6 percent. The : an f a? bread grains will be 7.5 percent greater than in
1948, fodder gmins 32 ?eroent heater, oil plants 76 percent greater, auger
beets 25 percent greater, and legumes 57 percent greater. The plan for sheep
will be 5 percent eater than last year, mBtle 7 pereeat greater, hogs 20
percent greater, and poualtry 20 percent greater,
The area mart cultivation an cooperative ftrws is to be ineo red 132
percent by the erd of the year, and there are to be 85 more machine-tractor
stations, canplete with the neeesearj agricultural anehiaery.
By the sad of the year, yields per unit of area are to be increased by
8 percent for bread grains, 31 percent for cotton, 61 percent for smrflwere,
27 percent for sugar beets, and ik percent for tobacco. .
The crap-purchase of farm products will be increased by 3 percent for
food grains, 17 percent for feed grains, 92 percent for oil seeds, 128 percent
for legumes, 60 percent for potatoes, 80 percent for animal fats, 141 percent
for meat, and 80 percent for eggs.
STATE PAY IMPROVE OUTIMT -- Izgrer, No 1353. 1 11sr 149
There are am 90 state farms in Bulgaria, vl*& o total area of 800,000
decares. The state farms fulfilled their 1918 sowing pLas 120 percent in the
spr1mg rah 132 percent in the fall. During 1918 they tasressed the mm-ber of
their livestoer'by 211 percent, or by 130 percent for draft aaisela, 162 percent
for sheep, mad 321 percent for bees.
The ripe ;]anted in northern Bulg