ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600231112-1
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 18, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1112
• Publication Date: July 5, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INT LLIGENCf' AGENCY REPOR'
INFORIAITION FROM
COUNTRY Czechoslovakia
SUBJECT Eooncuic - Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED
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DATE DIST. y Jul 1949
WHERE
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PUBLISHED
DATE
Prague
NO. OF PAGES
3
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
20 - 25 May 1949
Czech
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1948 AURICIJI URA.L LOSSES FROM FIRES LISTED -- Zemede1a a briny, 110 119,
21 May 49
Losses frcua fires in agriculture in L948 in the Czech prorincee amounted
to 150 million crowns out of a total fire damage of 480 m111im crowns. The
Installations damaged, according to type and extent of lose, wore:
Lose (in millions
of crowns)
Dwellings
74.5
Baas
63
Sheds, lean-to's
10
Haystacks
1.;5
Other (fields, small items)
1
Total
150
The oausee of fires are listed below, together with the losses resulting.
Cause
Loss (in aillinne
of crowns)
Children and irresponsible people
30
?Short circuits
24
Lightning
14
Arson
12
Carelesaness, ignorance
10
Faulty construction
8.5
Sparks (from chimneys or locomotives)
6.5,
Faulty machinery
5
Other determined causes
&
Undetermined causes
32
Total.
150
DISTRIBUTION
- ILL - :7777
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PRICES POP MILLING (mAIF PRODUCTS ZemsdelrkeNoviny, No 119, 21 May 49
The state has determined prices for milling various types of grain, as
well as the maximum losses which may be encountered in grinding grain, as
follows:
Price for Milling
100 Kg
(inin crowns)
Max Permissible
Lose in Milling
(ia )
wheat
47
3
Barley
47
Barley (for groats)
44
4
Rye
43
3
Buckwheat
36
5
Any grain, coarse groin
12
2
Any grain, crushed
8
1
It is unreasonable for a farmer to insist on 85 kilograms of good-quality
flour and 12 kilograms of bran from 100 kilograms of wheat. It is possible to
get as naob as 90 kilograms of flour from 100 ki lograms of wheat or rye, but
only aoout 60 - 65 kilograms of good-quality flour can 'usually be gotten from
one quintal of wheat or rye.
If the farmer is vlsaatisfied with the returns from one mill he can always
go to eaoth?r.
0lomone Bras has been working to fulfill its pledges to the Ei-':h Congress
of-the Commwtist Party of Czechoslovakia. As of 15 May 1949 these pledger had
been fulfilled as follows: 1,734 head of cattle had been aided (71 percent of
the pledges), 200,000 extra liters of silk had been delivered (105 percent),
246,000 extra eggs (123 percent), 76,535 kilograms of beef and pork'(106 per-
cent), and 1,400 kilograms of industrial potatoes (79 percent) bad been pro-
duced above nor 1 quotas.
The scrap drive had succeeded as follows: 585,000 kilograms of iron
(193 percent of pledges), 24,430 kilograme of waste paper (145 percent),
5,490 kilograss of bones (222 percent), and 304,204 kilogram of other waste
materials were collected.
A total of 96,281 seedling trees had been planted in the villages of
OlomoucKrsj, fu]iilling the pledge by 319 percent.
DUMBER OF SOWS IACSBASZ -- Z.e^Rdelske Boriny, No 119, 21 'ley 49
The number of sows in the Czech Provinces increased by 93,458 from 1
Januaryf 1948 to 1 April 1949.
below:
The numbers for various dates are given
1 Jrn 1948
204,491
1 Air 1948
206,1ll
1 Jul 1948
230,336
1 Oct 1948
238,020
1 Jan 1949
269,869
1 Apr 1949
297,949
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MORE PIGS IE CZECH PROVINCES -- RudePravo, Mo 118, 20 May 49
As of 1 April 1949 there were 2,259,000 pigs in the Czech Provinces. This
is 555,000 more than there were a year previously. This number is lower than
the 1934 - 38 average by only 228,000.
In Slovakia there were 1,055,000 pigs on 1 April, which is 398,000 more
than the 1934 - 38 average.
8008 Pf1HASSD BY STATE -- Zemedeleke Noviny, No 122, 25 May 49
As of the middle of May 1949 poultry cooperative agencies had bought
303,745,435 eggs on farmers' quotas in 194'. Up to 20 May 1948 only
243,988, 623 eggs bad been delivered by farmers. Deliveries of eggs by
months in 1948 and 1949 are as follows:
Month 148
Jan 3,400,877 6,219,345
Feb 21,262,567 39,736,286
mar 54,682,4oo 81,845,049
Apr 105,005,135 ].l0,489,590
Only 4,498,536 eggs bad been bought
ma- ket as of 15 Any 1949.
MIIB DELI7kRIg8 IRCHBASE -- Zenedelsko loviny, No 120, 22 May 49
Deliveries of milk to dairies, including country butter, reached 29,747,707
liters in the first 10 days of May. Only 29,332,238 liters were delivered
during the last 10 days of April. This is an increase of 1.41 percent. These
figures include milk delivered in esceae of quotas.
This is a sigiiflosnt increase after the decline of 6.94 percent in April as ocapared with torch.
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