CROP-PURCHASE PROGRAM LAGS

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• Publication Date: May 5, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDr7,1TIAL CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY ("zechcelovar.ia DATE OF
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Economic - Agriculture
Weekly newspaper
Prague
29 Dec 1914 - 1.) Jan 1 , 50
THIS DOCU NENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN TXE MEANING Of ESPIONAGE ACT EO
U. S C. 31 AND 32. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE AEV ELATION
CONTENTS S I R [PRODUCTION OF THIS FORM OISI R0HIEITED IS PRO OF ITS HIEIIE D O T L
DATE DIST. -5 I4ay 1950
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
CROP-PURCHASE PROGRAid LAGS
SABOTAGE ONE CAUSE -- Hospodar, No 52, 29 Dec 49
The period in which farmers were supposed to have fulfilled
their delivery
agreements and delivered their grain quotas ended on ll ulfi
purchase program, howeve~, continues.
The 1949 harvest was at least average. However, despite the fact that the
1949 grain quantity based on agreements was much lower than that of 1948, the
1948 level had not been reached by mid-December 1949 either in relative or ab-
solute figures.
Agreements concluded and quotas assigned amounted to 47,793 carloads of
wheat and 50,288 carloads of rye in the Czech Provinces in 1949. By 24 Decem-
ber, however, this plan was fulfilled only 83 percent in wheat and 99 percent
in rye. In view of the fact that only the most essential amounts of bread
grains were contracted for, less than in other summers, that all necessary ar-
rangements had been made for control of the field work and threshing of the
grains, that, the 1949 crop was better than average, that the purchase program
was exclusively in the hands of cooperatives, and that the determination of the
delivery tasks was exclusively in the hands of the people's organizations, the
results of the grain-purchase program are considerab..y unsatisfactory.
In the case of barley and oats, the assigned and contracted amounts were
in conflict with the plan of animal production, the intensity of which cannot
be restricted in the interests of plant production.
In 1948, the purchase of wheat by Christmas exceeded the 1949 purchase by
4,151 carloads. The rye purchase was at the same level as in 1948.
In Slovakia, the 1948 purchases were not so satisfactory as the 1949 pur-
chases. By Christmas of 1948, 11,161 carloads of wheat had been purchased
there, but in 1949, 14,944 carloads were already purchased, so that the plan
was fulfilled by 92 percent, although it was higher than the 1948 plan. The
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rye s ituati,,n r'? ., 7-) " - ' zr loans of rye had been
purchased in l)48, :L dy purchasedi in so that the
plan for iye purchase was e eel ;_, c;; one j),-c?cen'.
It is planned that 550 p,Orcent of the bread-grain consumption will be cov-
ered by domestic production and 20 by imports. At present, however,
only 72.5 percent of the nat.ienaide demand has been met by domestic purchases,
so that the remaining -'.5 pe_?cent must be either b;; additional domestic
purchases or by imports.
It cannot be said that the :aih.,re _ ,rchace:; was caused by lower morale
of the manses of the farmers. On the centrar:;, morale is considerably higher
than in the __riod of quota- because unrier th. -or.`ract ystem the farmer binds
himself and each ,afire inert is to -a erta_n extent voluntary. Also, the dera-
tioning of flour ,)roducts, tread, and white baked goods eliminated the greedi-
ness of selling on the black market. Therefore, the causes of nonfulfillment
must lie elsewhere.
These are, first of all., the sabotage intentions of some individuals. An-
other cause is the influence of animal production on grain deliveries, because
the production tasks and animal prices have a had effect on plant production.
Also, the allotment of delivery tasks was badly or negligently carried out in
many obec. It was not infrequent that some cultivators were assigned greater
deliveries than coald be produced under a normal crop, and the anticipated
above-average output failed to be realized. On the other hand, some larger cul-
tivators were assigned less than they should have been; the,, surplus quanti-
ties have beer consumed or ::ontinue to be stored by them.
The nonfulfillment of the planned grain-purchase program can in no way
menace our supply situation because of the unlimited possibilities of bread-
grain imports from the necple`s democracies. Caution in imports is exercised
only because it is desired to import more valuable foodstuffs, such as butter,
fats, eggs, etc.; grain imports are considered n.nnecessary, since grain exists
at home.
GIVES FIGURES ON ]?,H P ,0DUCTION -- Hospodar, No 52, 25 Dec 4)
The State Statistical Office has published in its Statisticke Informace,
Series V, No 34, statistics concerning the production and delivery of milk
during the third quarter of 1949.
Total milk production in the Republic amounted to 7,782,789 hectoliters,
which means that 4.4 liters of lk were produced per cow per day, specifically
4.6 liters in the Czech Provinces and 4.1 liters in Slovakia. A total of
6,991,155 hectoliters were milked in the Republic, which means that 4.1 liters
were milked per cow per day in the Czech Provinces and 3.6 liters in Slovakia.
A total of 1,899,805 hectoliters of milk were left to farmers in the Czech Prov-
inces, that is, 1.5 liters per cow per day. In Slovakia, 1,579,401 hectoliters,
that is, 3.1 liters per cow per day, were left to farmers. The farmers deliv-
ered 3,241,068 hectoliters to dairies in the Czech Provinces and 270,880 hecto-
liters in Slovakia. Farmers in the Czech Provinces delivered 2.6 liters per
cow per day; farmers in Slovakia, only half a liter per cow per day.
Whereas Slovakia produces 26.7 percent of the nationwide milk output, it
delivers only 7.7 percent of the total collection to collecting points. On the
average, half of the milk in the Republic, remains with farmers and half goes to
collecting points for the use of consumers. In the Czech Provinces, farmers
retain only 37 percent of the milk and deliver 63 percent. In Slovakia, farmers
retain 85.4 percent of the milk and deliver 14.6 percent.
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A total of '.;?3 16:[ b e? ie e; e ,ii r.u2htored from the beginning of
14-, Ltuxtil the end of 0 r I ih a, pare- unfavorably with the
467,562 beef cattle claa"t. c The -,`bove count, does not include
calves, of which 323,15' ;'L. m ?lenuery to October. This
figure again cc n i'. h. C L5 . ,l v ee slaughtered during
the same period Cl ?
From the beJ:naing of 0,_tc;oer?,' Il),k6b pigs '.:ere
slaught=red when only
6)8,440 Digs were niG,i ttsvv been slaughtered
for home use 1r, 16I as r. a :rrd 77; ;Vj is i n3 Aitcgether, 1,908,1')5
pigs have been slaugnicrei no,?e than in when
The number pf cos [? r:e ].cr l:_ a w , ; h : t r on 1 2anuar3' 1)33, when
there were 2,'547,!)11', -;,?,s rn [:,;, el:: ?a: , the nurber f_',l to 2,002,670, that
is, by 545,271Pe? ct, .2
It continua' . t:. fter r .:ght ::f 19117, it
reached its lowet. en 1 .funs. ,:hen them o_e only 1,861,853
cows, that is, 5336,1-11 i-ad, s:? 2' pecccnt, 1,,e than In the prewar period.
On 1 July 1)4 !, there w.:?ce 1 , that .., 21 .7 percent less than on
1 January 1539.
The average daily rail!. :'-1',n;t _.. tie Jeskeslorenske Statni Statky
(Czechoslovak State. F:urnu :sthe .-...,._r, 't:.. liters in 1:'~4.), but
some plants pt:odu?ced n r t: ro =. -w per dsy . ' he enterprise desires
to reach an average daily ortul:? in ]. 50, so that the
yearly milk produ.tinr. of n`c,,,:: ou!d .. re:[se by over 12 million li-
ters. The average da.i ty trill: _ .:.+: iii tb -ntite .:?:,unary is now 3 6 liters
per cow.
Additional large ut;,unt_ '1 ( ' 1 - 1 - 1 :r.. ?lc 7011k sill be imported soon. This
will be distributed c:: crn_ume:- on . _!i -?u-d;, a e substitate (in proportion
of one to ten) for the fresh t w,) : -cnt reclu-..li ccd rnik whenever there appears
a local shortage cf Ire oh milk ...r
According to the State: Stet_:t::;:] t `lls the average beer consumption
per inhabitant amounted to 6.12 liters in the first ha:f of 1549. It amounted
to only 5.28 liters during the firs'. '1',!f c:' 1:;58.
OP121S NEW POULTRY SLAUGHT2S i?NISL: 7co 3, I.,,! Jan 50
The idadeta dairy plant in 'tabor has : it into operation a, new poultry
slaughter house, the only one of its Fir,,]. The new establishment is equipped
with a place for slaughtortrg poultry. a large and bright place for plucking,
places for dressing, shipping, and refrrt_*,:r-alert, offices, places for drying
feathers, feed and packing torcr cams, nd aLl kinds of modern social installa-
tions.
A total of 1,847 large pig-fatteninr;centers, including 1,177 under the
Czechoslovak State Farms. 1-d. been out into ouerat.on in the Republic by the
TI .c f ;acct already in September 1949
end of ':ovemter 1, + .c ar c? ,corer a
were covering 36 percent of the entire tenant for port., and their share is
rising.
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CoN gilla
Only 4,144 quintal,
1948. This comnare? w~a?,~~ . i'o ~ 1
20,390 quintals produced in
compared to 7,3.0 quint-e5:: .c,
therefore, the output of hanov it
,a 'ha Czech Pr :vinces in
in i "h( and
in l)146 as
nta1r in 1';37. Before the war,
the output in
2,356 quintale more
Slovakia by 15,000 quint 1s, i:.
than the Czech Provir:_e=_.
The Ministry of ic.: i iisa
tons for factory kttahens sc. e ,
The wholesale arise ,_. fa:t^.
. t for bakers and 75
100 kilograms.
rc , . :,,-r- on,- kilcgran.
The following amcurt:, hasrd .'..,t cf the t)1I harvest
in Czechoslovakia by wh.s. (cti percent of
plan), 60,351 carloads oC r y _ (lUt r : : . . gi n ::f barley (71+ per-
_nrn.
cent), ),040 ce.rloeds :,f r : , t ; ~Df
The export of peppy s`cr l rr s _:i est. tile ..cu-5_ sly ~o :par,, Oleasnol,
which handles all foreign ~_ ale in e:! eteri;l_s
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