ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 453
• Publication Date: June 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL 'I, !J REPORT
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FOREIGN DOCUM?'=TS OR RAC:_ E- p.v: AST. CC' NO.
COUNTRY us;'
SUBJECT N.:.onomic - Agri -iituxe
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newapapere
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 17 Apr - 20 May 1949
LANGUAGE Raossian
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DATE DIST. D dun 1949
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
FI'$BING STATIONS EIPAND
TUIZLUS SPRING WHRAT SOWING PLAN -- Pravda, No 137, 17 May 49
Solkhozes and eovkhozes of Ovok Oblast fullildgd the State plan for
soetnF of opring wheat by 15 lay;," The sown area One increased 10,000
hectares over last year. Sowing was completed 20 days earlier than in
1948.
CCNPIJW 8 (SLAIN AID SUGAR Bffi PLANTINGS -- Pravda, No 137, 37 May 49
oolkhozes and sovkhozes of the southern oblasts of Sazakha:an
successfully completed the plan for planting of grain crops and sugar beets
Due to frequent mum rains, the seeds have sprouted rap1dl,7.,
Many kolkhozes of Nikolayev, Zaporozhlye, Odessa, Dnepropetrovsk,
and Izsail oZlaste are cultivating rice in low river valleys, This :rop
yields oonsiderrbla profit. n..' areas for rise planting will be expanded
this year. In a numbea of Ukrainian oblaste, experimental stations
nultivate special kinds' of rice that require little moistc:e.
The Central State Scientific rDd Research Machine-Testing Station has
been set up at the "arasnyy nayak" SY,)erimental Station in Lenino, Moscow
Oblast. The Station t''sts agricultural machines, the majority of which are
exparinontal models., the Station has recently ram testa of a tractor-drown
a-mbination sowing machine which sows grain and grnes need simultaneously.
Another machine being tested is designed to sow grain and a; the eame time
spread mineral fert111znr.,
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KHABAROP5K F000 ("0MATN
28 Apr 49
NOVOSIBIRSK BUTTER TRUST EXCEEDS PLAN -- Sovetskaya Sibir', No 84,
30 Apr 49
Twenty-four ray-.. batter industries and three ~reameriea --
Eazach'ye-Mysakiy, Pichugovskiy, and Krasnozeiekiy -- of the Novosibirsk
Butter Industry Trust completed the 4-month plan ahead of schedule. The
O dnynskiy Rayon Butter Induatry was the first to fulfill the plan. The
trust as a whole produced several tboueani centnere of butter stove plan,
committee, Fasulaki; chairman of the rayon executive committee, Naroiitakiy';
completely unsatiefdetory in the first quarter. Performance of the follow-
percent, were eaced for their good work in the quarter par?od
NTZHNE-AMUR FIBKERIES LAG -- Tikhookeanakaya Zvezda, No 100, 29 Apr 49
The Khabarovsk Kray F.xocuti'e Committoe and the Bureau of the bray
Party committee have awarded the Red Banner to Nanayakiy Rayon aearetary
of the rayon Party committee, Suturin; chairman of the rayon executive
committee, Belov)'?which took first`flaoe in the competition among fishing
.e .m of the tyre' in the ?1-ef. nuertar t949.. The ravon's fish industry
fulfilled the quarter plan for catching fish 199 percent and aught'21,700
pud of fish above the plan. Fish combines and kolkhozes of Kamchatka
Oblast (searethry., of the oblast Party committee, Grachev; chairman of
the oblast executive committee, Dedkov; 'thief of the Main Administration
of the Kamchatka Fish Industry, Kotel'nkov), which fulfilled t:ie plan 110.6
MOTOR FISHING STATIONS EXPANDED -- Tikhookeanskaya Zvezda, No 90, 17 Apr 49
The netvork of motorized fishing and marine mammal stations on Kamchatka
is Bing contently expanded. The Palana Motorized Fishing Station, which
will serve natioral kolkhozes of Tigil'skiy and Penzhinskiy Rayons, will be
built on t:.e vast coast of the peninsula. The station will be equipped
with eight "ka1eaki," freight and fishing "kunga-v," ten tags, and ocean
going launches.', The Rusakovskey Motorized Fishing station will serve
kolkhozes in the southern part of Karaginakiy Rayon. In addition to other
types of ships, this station will be equipped.' with 20 "kavasaki" to be
used for deep-sea cod fishing. New motorized fishing stations will be put
into operation this year in the Chukot National Okrug. The Karaga,
Eorfovekeye, Petroparlovek, and Uet-Bamchatek motorized fishing stations
will be considerably enlarged and will receive additional ships and equip-
ment 'or ship repair.
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The Mitoginakiy and Kikh:-.h.ik Fiyf. 'ombine. and. the Combine imeni
Mikoyan have taken first p-a4e among eateri,rises of "Glavkamchatryoprom"
(Main Administration of the Kamchatka Fish Ii'ziutry). These combines
completed, the April fish-catching plan ahead of schedule. The Khayryuzov-
ski?' Combine on Ptich' Inland has completed all preparations for the crab
KAMCEATKA FISH C0MIfiES CC$D?J ;.'^E P'.
30 Apr 49
KAMCHATKA FIB N PREPARE .1 ZDITION -- Tikhookeanekaya Zvezda, No 91,
19 Apr 49
Fishermen from 13 kolkhozes in Karaginak.iy and Olyutorekiy Rayons,
Koryak National Okrug, from, kolkhozes in Petropavlovekiy Rayon, and from
the Ogacrskiy and Kichiginakiy Fish Combines, are preparing for an expedi-
tion to catch herring in the Gulf of Anapka. The steamer Shchors is bring'
ing coal, salt, rope, special clothes, spare machine parts, engines, fish
yuspe, food, and supplies to the fishermen from Petropavlovsk. En route to
Anapka, the Shchors will stop at Ust'-Kamchatkk to take on board 12 fish-
ing and two freight "kungeey.,"
The expedition wili also be equipped, with three radio station to
provide communications with outlying fish plants such as the I1'pyr,
Peschanyy, and others in tnapka A concert brigade, three mobile wound
movie units, small libraries, musical instruments, etc.., have been sent
to provide entertainment for the fishermen during the season in Anapka.
PLANTING PRO(ar.3 IN KARA-KUMY DESERT -- Trudp P'o 114, 17 MAY 49
4c-girding to information from Bukhara, Uzbek BSR, planting of trees
and shrubs has begun in tie Kara-Kumy desert. Airplanes are being used
for the first time to assist in the planting. The seeds of plants are
dropped from airplanes filling nlose to the ground. Workers of the Central
Asia Institute of Forestry designed a special machine for planting seed-I
from the air. The first 800 hectares of the Vakhah-Kuduk area have been
planted from airplanes. Nov aerial planting is 'oeing done in the sands of
the Pal-Iuduk-&uiy area, After heavy spring rains, the nevly planted
seeds of saksaul (haloxylon) in the desert have cprouted rapid~,v.
KaBAN'-219GORLYK IRRIGATION SYSTIQ4 PROGRE9SE2 -- Pravda Ukrainy, No 105,
6 Kay 49
Work has begun on the second section of the Kuban,-Yegorlyk irrigation
system in Stavropol'rray. Work on the dam across the Yegcrlyk River has
begun, and rill include moving an estimated 2 million pubic meters of
earth. Sxeavation has been started on the Pravo-Yegorlyk canal, which
will be 145 kilomotera 'ong and will furnish water to Trunovekiy, Shpakovst.ly,
Ipatovskiy, snd other rayon". The Levo-Yegorl.yk canal will be 130 kilo-
meters long and x111 supply Novo-Aleksandrovak-ty, Yegorlykekiy, and other
rayons.
The second section of the Kuban'-Yegcrlyk f~'igation system will be
completed in 1953 ani will furnish 105,000 h6ots. i of ground with water.
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UMEMAN WI7DS MACHINE MW EXCAVATO t Sti21Oi S -- Pravda, No 132.,
12 May 49
Several now machine and excavator stations have been built in
Uzbekistan ant will be operated in connection with the irrigation program
for cotton-raising kolkhozea.
Two stations are being orga:ized in the Sara-Kalpak ASSR and three
UZ $8B (F1S NAW PASTUMS -- Soto Ialisticheskoye Zamledeliye, No 98,
The Kala-Atinskaya steppe (Saahka-Darlinskaya Oblast, Uzbek SSR)
used-for pasture due to the lack of watering places. A. great deal of
construction work is rwv being done in this region. 't'wenty-tiro wells have
been built, iuipped with pumps and concrete bah-fns. The first eatt,emente
have,sprungup. Flocks of, karakul sheep from ko khozes o the oblsat graze
on the newly irrigated pastures covering 070,000 hectares.
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