ALBANIAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE TWO-YEAR PLAN

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 881
• Publication Date: November 22, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CO;QFIDENTTAIf~~~~~~~~~~~~,
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCYY! ;;SPORT
INrORMATION FROM
FOREIGN CDOCUMEt~+TS OR RADIO BROA?CASTS GD NO.
SUBJECT Economic - Taa-Year Plan
HOW
WHERE
PUBLISHED kioaco;r
DATE
PUBLISHED Atag 1949
LANGURGE >3usaian
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION.
.~>,n 1948, the total volame ~f A1l+an'. Iin .I?nY.ni.t.. ......,Y?...L.a..- c _
of the 198 level. Petroleum production had risen to 159?'l percent of the
1938 level, bitumen production to 142.6 percent, and coal to 573.9 gercent.
~'~B 1948, a 5,~-spindle texti`s mill in ShL-oder, a fruit-preser~lag
factory 1n Elbnsan w_th an annual processing capacity of 3,000 tons of
fruit, a sugar refinery :.n gores capable of producing 2,000 tons oi' sugar
Par year, sad rope and fu.niture factories were pub into operation. The
construction of the "5elita" Hydroelectric Pcver Plant w\s continued. 011
mills, weaving mills, and shoe factorise, a copper e?elter, electric power
plants, a telegraph and telephone net, and petroleum refinery installations
were rebuilt. Ae a reeul4 of this reconstruction, the production capacity
of the Albanian petroletao-refining installations was increased to 90,000
tone of crude oil per year, the copper smelters have reached a capacity of
1,200 tons of copper per year, sad tb~ shoe factories cas produce 90,OOfY
pairs of shoes gar year.
~ 194?, the Durres-Pegin railroad line, the first in Albania, was
finished, a pacEd highway vas built between gn}:es and Peshkopi, sad 354
kilameterp of irrigation a>4d drainage cannals were built. In 1948, a labor
Royce of 20,000 volunteers began the construction of a new 37-kilometer
railroa3 line linking Tis~\na with the port of Durres. This line vas put
into service in February 1y49.
Durtng 1948 a total of x,802 houses were built, 298 schools were
opened, 5,787 lineaS meters of bridges were built, including a bridge lk3
meters song osier the Drip i si (Black DriA), sad an oil p!pe line was laid
from the Patoe oil wells to the port of Vnlona.
In 1948, the pleated eu~ea reache3 317,000 hectares, or 143.4 percent of
the 194b figure. The total yield of grain in 1948 vas 266,200 tone, or 32.3
percent more Lban in 1938? There were only four tractors in Albania in 1938,
b4t now there are seven coaching-tractor etationa headling 134 tractors and
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p:.omeZ 4G percent of all the arable land belonging to the fa~a laborYcooperativea.
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The first 56 aP these cooperatives had a membership aP 2,428 farm FeiailAers
and oxned txo tractors, 43 reapers, sad 1,190 glove. %a addition, th,e fac.i].itiea
of the machine-iraetor stations xem made available to them. The n~ber ag
FarlCi labor cooperatives is increasing conetantlg.
In 19413, a total oP 5, ~ iaectares, ar 1.7 percent of s11 the eatable
].and in Albenie, belonged to state Farms. '.f'here vets 100,AC`0 heeid of
livestock oa state etoek Farms.
In June 1949, the Txo~Year $canr,?tc Plsn For 1948 and 1950 vas apgro~epd.
The Plana providers For ea imrestmaent of 25.3 percent of all capital axpQadittsres
For industry, 20.2 percent far mining and petroletaa production, 3.2 percent
i'or 1oea1 industry, and 13.7 perceir*, Far agricu:tture .
Thr Folloxirag table sbosrs the allocation of capital inveettmeuts in the
'he,sir. branches of t:rm economy, in mi'b;.i;.:.s aF lake
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Production ~.ncreases calltd for by the 'Two-Year Klan (1946.100) vats
sa follova:
204
2i5
151
156
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182
372
92
a42
Vegetable oil 108 171
l~lacaroni products 172 245
Tobacco products 7.24 124
Ta nccordance with the naphadis on aineral production in the Tvo-Isar
Plat., the :laying of a nev oil pipe line x111 be conpll~ted and the constrmatioan
of a patrole~ refinery started in 19b9. The plan prariQee for the co~natroctioa
of a sugar factory xith a capa!ity of 10,000 tons am of an oil-Hill sblo tc
produce 4,000 tans per year, bots to be put into apentioa in 1951. The sage
year, a textile combine with Bn annual production capacity of _`0 million as"Ars
of cloth is to begin operating. Leather an8 sacaronl factories are to be rs-
built and a nusber of other enterprises built.
The plan calls fors lanced area of 332,OOG heutarss; in 1949 and 357,E
in 1950, of which [latter fi~~re 245,800 hectares are to be planted is bread
grains, 33,600 hectares in iadnstrial plants, 63,3 hectares in feed grains, and
14,900 hectares in vegetables, lncinding potatoes.
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Plantings of the basic crops x111 shoe the following increaues (1948 . 1Q0):
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T~heat ~,6 125
Cora 103 112
Oats 159 151
^~tton 231 257
Sugar beets 10y 122
Vegttables 109 ~
Potatoes COHFI"JENTIAI l2l 150
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ncrease in the number of livestock from
408,000 head in 194b to 43'7,000 head in 1950, ss follows (1948 ~ 100);
hectares, or 16 percent of the totaleareaawrdericropa.b The planted~a~a
on state farms is scheduled to increase to 7,100 hectares: aad the number
of tractors on state Farms x111 increase from 42 is 1948 to 72 in 1x50,
The plan provides ~'or
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During 1949, the number of tractors in the 'nachine-tractor stations is
scheduled to inorease to 217 and th
In 1948, reclamation work ~i1.1 be carried out on Lake Ma?iq, in the
Baden one? A'yzege valleys aad in the vicinity of the ]lest-13ra Csnal.
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Raver Hoxba has annoursced tt?at +r,a rreeT .u? g.__. .
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fac~ories, aad other sate __ """r~~~~.~-gig "?on area curing tobacco, ply~rood
the IISSR will install variouraskinda of hand 1950, on credit. xn addition,
etc. Hoxha added that in 1941 and 1952 the USSR~xouldnm~eats, pi?`-a, rails,
equipment for a petroleum refinery xi+?h as annual, production capacity oft150,000
tone and equip?ent Por a thermal power plant, equipmeent far ecasoninR rood.
r.amplete :n~.~};t,,..ry to Siaieh a wool weaving mill, equipment for a cement
factory, and equipment fora 60-kilowatt medium-wave radio station. The U9~2
x113 also give Albania technical assistance is research, designing, and
installation.
~' ~~~'~' 1949, Albania concluded a trade agreeaeat with Poland, whereby
Poland x111 furnish Albania, oa credi,,, with two ships of 500 - 600 tone,
three Diesel engines oS 400 - 500 horsepower each, railroad tank cars,
metallurgical coke, sugar, cloth, and other goods.
Oa 12 March 1949, a trade agreement with Czechoslovakia vas signed is
Prague, providing for reciprocal trade worth 3,350,000 dollars. Albania will
import motor vehi:lea, mining roachir,ery, various ir.duatr~el equipment, agri-
cultural a,.chinerq, textile products, at~d glassware Yrcm Czechoslovakia, aad
will expc:t iron and chrome ore, lumber, medicinal herbs, etc., to Czechoslovakia.
Oa 14 March 1949, a trade agreement was sigoed in Budapest by Albania
and Hungary, which provides for an exchange of goods north 1,730,000 dollars,
including the commodities that Bu~grsy will supply oa credit. Albpnis will
Port from Hungary various machines, spare parts, and consumers' goods, and
will export bitumen and other materials to Hungary,
~ 3o March 1949, Albania aad Rumania signed a trade ag eemeat is Bucharest
providing for an exchange of goods amounting to 3 million dollars. Albania has
begun to import petroleum products, grain, 1,ffiber, cement, paper, etc., Pram
Rumania, and to export chrome ore, cotton, hides, livestock, and o*.her goods to
Rumania.
Albatt~ ~ ipril 1949, an agreement with Bulgaria was signed in Sofia whereby
mport industrial products, agricultural products, and breeding stock
from Bu~garia, with the yelp of credit extended by the Bulgarian government, and
will export cotton, petroleum, citrus fruit, olives, etc., to Bu1~,aria,
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