ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600231017-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1017
• Publication Date: June 30, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENWii OR RADIO BROADCA CD NO.
DATE DIST. j 0 dun 1949
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
The Ministry of Agriculture reports that, by 15 May, 97.9 percent of the
spring planting was completed. There were 27,172 cadastral yokes of spring
wheat planted, 801,954 of spring barley, 318,306 of oats, 1,959,096 of oaa#,
470,936 of potatoes, 184,851 of sugar beet, and 505,954 of sunflovers. There
were also 20,969 oadaetral yokes of rice, 103,451 of alfalfa, and 12,477 of
tobacco planted.
During the threo-y ear plan, 30 million forints were invested for the
reoonetruotiot of Borsod County. At present, Borsod County-Las only three
tractor stations; at the and of tiie year there will be seven.
The production of livestock in Borsod County has greatly expanded. The
number of horses increased to 121000, cattle increased from 30,000 to 60,000
head and the number of cheep doubled. Hog production has increased sixfold.
Borsod also has a new hospit+1, nurawry, and four tuberculosib sanatorium
The numbor of doctors has incraa.dt from 40 to 132. At present 525 sTsll homes
are being built, To date, 27 tams have received electricity. Flood-control
measures are underwy along the Tisza. Under the Plan, 21 kilometers of new,
roads have been constructed and by the and of 1949, 14 kilometers more will
be added to the road petwark. Up to now, 24 bridges have been reconstructed.
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SUBJECTononio - agriculture
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.PUBLISHED Budapest
PUBLISHED 11 - 21 May 1949
LANGUAGE Hungarian
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In the Zemplen County there were 97,266 head of beef cattle in 1945. During
the past 4 years the number h,e been cuedrupled. The number of horses has been
increased from 5,000 to 6,000. Since liberation, the number of swine grew from
12,000 to 25,000.
By the end of the Five-Year Plan the number of livestock will surpass
the present stock by 57 percent.
RAPID M RANIZATION OF AGRICULTURE -- Nepezava, No 108, 11 May 49
On 1 August 1948, there were a total of 38 machine-tractor stations through-
out the country, with 548 tractors and 171 threshing machines. By 31 Maroh
1949, there were 128 machine-tractor stations with 1,579 tractors and 277 thresh-
ing machines. By the and of 1949 there will be 220 machine-tractor stations
with 3,500 tractors and 650 threshing machines. By the end of the Five-Year
Plan there will be 500 machine-tractor stations and 20.000 tractors.
Tractors will till 6 million cadastral yokes by the end of the Plan.. By 1954
every machine-tractor station will be equipped with 40 tractors, and there
will be a total of 1,000 combines. In 1954, 3 times as many agricultural
machines moat be produced as will be produced in 1949.
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