ACHIEVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURE NOTED; QUANTITY UP, QUALITY DOWN IN FARM MACHINERY

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• Document Release Date: August 4, 2011
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• Publication Date: November 14, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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million hec~.,aree greater than in 1947; in 1449,~Vit ie ~ mil.l.ion hecterre greater
than in 1948.
A camperison of the first half of 1949 r:ith the same peried of 1948 ehoxe
that file number of truoke and traotore in egrieulturd wes 1~ times greatez?
f.n 194g, Lhe member of c~-binas was 7chine tractor
stestione carried ou:; agricultural operations on 16 million pore hactarts,
s~ the average yield per hectare was above tha prowar lavei.
The average I.roductivit; of a 15-horsepower tractor, which formerly did
not ezoeed 4 - 5 hectares, rose 2G paroeat during sprig s;7+iz>Iht
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The ntunbrr .;ftrac got plows. arv: shallcn+ plows produced In 148 was ~ times
treat of 1947; tractor ~?~ed.ere, 2 tin:ea, trailer caa~bin?s, elmobt 5 times. In
the aeeon3 euarter of 1949, the number of tractors producp,d was 173 Percent of
the number produced in the same period In 1948; gram combines, 2G0 percent of
thrashers, 182 porcon9,. At present, powex?ful 5-80 tree+,ore, self-propelled
combines, and electric. tractors operate in the kolkhoz and sovkhoz Holds. Tha
serial production of 55 nca typ.~s of improved machinr,e, for all branches of
agriculture, has been mastered.
However, in 19+3, agriculture fai.lad to receive its complement of machin-
Ary, including a considozable number of self-propellAd combines, a?edera,
and cultivators, Through 'he faal.t of a n~.unbar of plane. In the first
half oP 1949, therA was also a shcrraga of seeders and tree-planting machines.
The responsibYllt?y Ycr such lagging rests with both the management of mach.ine?
bixilding Flants and the carrespcnd.ing trade unions, Soviet machine-Lixilding
engin?ere create the most perfect mechanieme in thA world, but the quality
of the pxoducta torrid out by the plants leave much to bs desired,
]m this connACtion, the Gentral Conenittee of the Agricultural MachinA-
Building Trade Union carried. out a general inspection ~f the quality of
praiu:.tion., It was establlyhed. that at the October Revolution Plant, the
low quality was due to the lack of.ekilled gArsonnel in the Inepeotion
divi.e3on. Tr another plant, jU percent cf the parts of self-propelled combines
were ttt_'?ned out witt;ont using Rise, spacial. devices, or cutting toolse The
Central Committee helped the management ar~d workers to alYminate those short-
cominge. Attention was given tc the organization oP "eacallent quality"
brigades. Scores of the latter were organized in the Lyubertey, Voronezh,
ant "Srasr~}.y Akeay" planter
Most important is the solution of pastwet? agricultural problems is
the electrificaticm of agriculture' process9s., By the e~ of the Five-7ear
Plnzr, ell the sovkhozes, MI', selection, and experimental stations, as well
na 5G, 000 kolkho::es are to be elactrified~ The capacity of rural electric
Ynatallatione will be raie3d tc 2 mlilior~ kYlawatta~
In Sverdlovsk Oblast, the First in tSrs USSR to carry cut complete
electrification of its kolkhoz villages, electricity ie en,7oyed by x,108
kolkhozes, more than 900 cattle-raising farms, and 1,900 forges and wcrY.-
ehope> $lect:ic motors service the thrashers, grain cleaners, straw cutters,
silage cotta*9, flour milJ.e, watzr-pumping stations, wood saws, and lathes
in tits kolkhoz workshops.
$lectrification of agriculture In Moscow Oblast is to be completed in
1949.. .tgrical#?ure Ye also bring electrified rn the Ukraine, in Chelyabinsk,
Molotov, and Gor`kiy oblasta, a;~d'a number of other ru'eas~ A eplrir, of
mtt`,ual eooperat_or.:ras been developed in the Induatri.ts raspeaa'.ble for the
elactrif'ication of kolkhozes ani sovkhozee. The Initiative of the Ura?_
N:3chine-Building Plant for instance, has eerv~d ae an ezample to the enter-
prisee of Sverdlovsk Obiaet to turn out more equipment than planned for
the rural power stations of Sazakhatan. The trade irnione of Moscow, like-
wise, are engaged rn such work The trade union couacile must play t;re
....,e ..v ., o.,~~m,-A A?rsnn +.hra 5n9ttal stases of this acttvi.ty.
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