ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240846-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 846
• Publication Date: August 8, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Czechoslovak fnrmard ere attaining wcaderful reeulta in theL con'ri-
babicne to *he $epublic. The total amount of the whole year's auotae.is
5b`.,i4~r975 errnme, lci?,619;06 of wh'!ch were due by the time oP the Nin+.h
Faxty Caagreee. The farmers eurpaeaed the 3uota by 28.5 percent and in
the amount of 241,251,117 crovae. The farmers of Pardubice Sra~ fulfilled
their original quotas moat favorably by 152.3 percent.
Other figus?ee by kra~ and r~rcentalce aro as Eoliowe. Liberec, 150.F;
Pilsen, 162.2; Ueti nn,d lebe:c, 138.5; Jlhiava, 13i ?5; C?sa&~ audeJc"1^e,
129.?; fi~?aJ~se h"~.1a.9, ]?8.4; std Practte, 119.2.
The following coz~3r~,>~,:tians in specific agricultural ?roducte end
Mork were mode "c+r tY!a fllnth Part?- Ccrgre3e:
The pledge of oil plants was fulfills'' by 353 percent; dei.ivery of
poultry, 105 percent. The ni*mber of hogs iacxesaed by 17,551 head or 118.6
percent. An increase of 10,569 head of calves has been pledged for the
entire year. Of this nuQ.ber ~,'j60 have elreadv ba:>~ ..dded to L'ae present
herds. ,The '?umber of core was inrroaeed by ,791, suave by c^,9'r_4. a:ad
eucklirg p:la9 by 6,677. Of the entire ,::ar?:, pleigo cf 15,088 bulls,
7,950 have been pledged over and above the plea before the Ninth Party
C~greeB CCllVenee.
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Ilesidee 111,033 fruit tress alxaady sat o-ut, .fa~,.~sra "..ova set out an
additional 672,.545; in addition to 1,072,802 e7ready planted, farmers have
set out 2,734;858 more forest trees. In various improvement pro,jocte,
farmers voluntarily worked 3,329,697 hours morn than tho planned 1.,$34,000.
hours and collected L9,849 kilograms of raw materiele,aa compared to the
pledge of 43,459 kllograme.
P.e other pro;~ects and contributions to the Nirth Party Congre3es, the
farmers built 45 kilc?etere of highway, 10 kilometers of drainage ditches,
14 mnall bridged, T3$ kilometer9 of water conduits, 32 kilometers of embank-
mente, and 113 hectares of new fish ponds; they also prepared 891 hectares
of chicken-yard area. Thirty-one hectares of pasture land ware seeded with
grass, and 1.49 hog-fattening farms; 12 poultry fame, 1.5 pig--weening stalls,
37 chlckon brooders, 80 wash houee.e, and 22 :?est houses, were built.
The. number of libraries was increased by 1,328i'
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oP the fiast plodgee wa? to waarar~k 217;202 hours, but actually 230,292
volunteer hours, i+ere gut in, With''.he delivery of 63,700 e:^tra kilograms
of beef, pledgee were fulfilled by 111 pe9rcent in the ealuePof 23 million
croms: State'farms also del9.vared 752,T00 kilograms of pork. The pledge
for dellvea~y oY 861,E?2 liters of artze ffiilk valued at almost l5 mi111gn
crowns wae''Yu7f'i:lied by X37. percent. A fur~her contribution of the State
farms ie 9,550,dcaeeetc foals valued. at 1,045.,000. crowns and 33,?;e2 eggs
warth 230,000 craves. Another 5 million crowns ere represented by improve-
ment auggeeticne in the enving of fuels, servicing of machines, and ocoli-
cmizing in fee@a and fertilizers. Pledgee in the collection of iron and
cast iron were fulfilled by 119 percent. The total contribution of farmors
Srom the State Parma repreeaote a total of 60,815,61Q crowns.
~ 715 CZ3~EZ LCVABTA -- T.iaova ~olv.~acie, IIo 114, 15 Dley 49
Ia the lost 2~ years 521,7;4 metric centner:~ of wool have boon imparted
at n coat of 3,620,994,000 nrovns. In th-. some period ezparts of wool
prodi~cbe toUshd 1,522,915,:HOC c:o.rus. 1`hie negativo balFr~ce equals
nearly 60 paceat aP tho cost of the wool, whi1R in !.337 the nr~atlvo
balance totoled on:.y 7.7 percent of the pric? of the wool bought.
As of 1 July 1945, there were 558,000 ~ic~ sheep in Czpchoelovakia,
oY vhish 233.000 were in the Csech Provinces and 276,000 in Siovaki~.
By 1 January 1949 ichore were 458,593 sheep in the whole country, with
144,335 in the Czevh Provinces and 31h,358 in Slovakia.
7$e harvest of hay and fodder will start soon in all parts of the
oouatry. Then goal is to harvest 1,135,000 hectares of grassland and
961,000 hectares of foiador. This effort will be sarkedly aided by the
165,000 mobile harvesters, 2,000 hand-controlled motored harvesters, and
4,400 tractors vitb harvesting attachments which are availnble.
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