CONFERENCES AND BANK LOANS AID FARMERS

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• Publication Date: May 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENVT REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
COUNTRY China DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture, grain, silkworms,
cattle
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Canton; Shanghai
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 - 16 Apr 1950
LANGUAGE Chinese
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CONFERENCES AND BANK LOANS AID FARMERS
SHENSI HOLDS CONFERENCE OF AGRICULTURAL DELEGATES -- Canton Nan-fang Jih-pao,
7 Apr 50
Sian, 5 April (Hsin-hua): A 7-day conference of agricultural delegates
representing all races in the province closed here 31 March. The delegates
discussed and adopted all the regular plans of the central government for agri-
cultural production including preparation for land distribution and the-organi-
zation of agricultural associations on all levels from provincial down to local.
Among the resolutions on increasing production was one setting a goal of one
liter of grain per mou increase in production this year over last year.
Emphasis was laid on promoting interracial cooperation in agricultural ac-
tivities.
One resolution called for training a large number of veterinary surgeons
to circulate in the grazing areas to keep up the health of the herds and im-
prove and increase stock breeding. Food raising in the grazing areas is to be
stepped up to cut down the consumption of herds for human food. Marketing cen-
ters are to be set up to handle wool sales.
The delegates agreed to assist local officials by propaganda and super-
vision in doing away with poppy planting and the use of opium and to seek to
have all land formerly employed for poppy raising converted to raising food
stuffs.
CATTLE SHORTAGE HINDERS SPRING PLANTING -- Canton Nan-fang Jih-pao, 6 Apr 50
The importance of work cattle to the Chinese peasant's agricultural economy
is indisputable.
The People's government is exceedingly interested in this matter and has at-
tempted to insure some stability in the situation by sending out veterinary teams
to inoculate stock against cattle plague and to treat diseased animals.
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Althrugh data on the work cattle population are incomplete, partial data
from various areas give some idea of the situation.
There is a shortage of more than 19,000 work cattle in the Fou-liang Sub-
district of Kiangsi. In one area of Honan, with a population of 70,000, there
is one donkey and one bovine work animal for each 32 persons. In parts of the
area, the supply is as low as one work animal to 160 persons. The shortage
here has been somewhat accentuates by famine conditions since the turnover to
CCP, but the shortage was building up before that.
In the Kiangsi area mentioned above, 7,000 animals were lost to the farmers
by sale or death in recent months.
In some sections, noncooperative landlords and well-to-do farmers have de-
liberately sold or otherwise done away with work cattle to hinder the agricul-
tural program of the CCP.
The People's government in all these places and others has been seeking to
alleviate this shortage by various means. One method is loans. In Hupeh, loans
of from 10,000 to one million catties of grain have been made for the purchase
of work animals.
In their various regulations on agricultural matters, the Central government
and the Central and South China Military and Political Council have emphasized
prohibitions against the slaughter of wcrk animals. They have sought to prevent
disease by large-scale inoculations where cattle disease threatened and have
successfully treated many animals already sick. In one area of Honan, over
13,000 animals were inoculated by veterinary teams from Peiping. The Kiangsi
provincial government is planning to distribute one million cubic centimeters of
serum during 1950 for inoculation against cattle disease. The Kwangtung provin-
cial government proposes to inoculate 250,000 head of stock against cattle plague.
In areas where the land reform has been carried out, farmers have been able
to use the income they received in that reform to buy stock.
Though the shortage of work animals combined with the great need of them in
spring work constitutes a grave problem, in some areas not fully delivered from
bureaucratic taint, the cadres have been mouthing slogans about production, etc.,
without recognizing the work-animal problem.
Officials have made the following suggestions for alleviation of the situa-
tion: Legal restriction on and public opinion mobilized against slaughter of
work cattle; general attention to building up farmers' living standards so they
will not need to sell work stock to secure funds to live; more attention to pre-
vention and cure of cattle plague; encouragement to those who can raise cattle
for rent to do so, and careful computation of human athi animal labor needs for
the task in hand in each area.
BANK LOANS AID PURCHASE OF FARM ANIMALS -- Shanghai Hsin-wen Jih-pao, 16 Apr 50
Shanghai -- Eighteen Shanghai banks have organized a banking consortium to
provide agricultural loans to assist farmers in procuring buffaloes or other ani-
mals for plowing. On 15 April, the agreement was signed and 50 million peoples
yuan.were appropriated to finance-03' tLnimals, through the Associated Producers'
Cooperative';8ncieties and the Productive Relief Committee of Wu-chiang Hsien.
The Chin-ch'eng Bank, one of the 18 above-mentioned banks has decided to
make similar loans in the Chang-shu district, and is considering the same action
in the Sung-kiang, T'ai-ts'ang, Chia-ting and Pao-shan districts. The bank is
also training new staff members to handle agricultural loans.
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BA!K LOANS AID KWANGTUNG SILK INDUSTRY -- Canton Nan-fang Jih-pao, 16 Apr 50 first canton -- The Kofn2057rhyuantto 346 silk tevenhesecti ns
round of cashh loans 205,785,000
of Chung-shan Hsien and Shun-te Hsien. This is to enable poor silk farmers to
purchase the mulberry leaves which are the indispensable food of theesilkwo
the connection with the
These loans are made
Promotion Section ofitheoAgri Ocultural Depart-
silkworm rms
ment m eggs by product thus made possible is estimated
ment of the provincial government. The p
at 110,000 ounces of silk, which, if exported, represents a substantial amount
of foreign exchange, besides affording a livelihood for the producing farmers.
It is planned to extend this operation.
GRAIN CONTROL COMMISSION HOLDS CONFERENCE -- Shanghai Hsin-wen Jih-pao,
16 Apr 50
Shanghai -- On 4 April 1950, the East China regional company of the China
Food Company convened a 10-day conference of managers of provincial and city
branches of the company.
The purpose of this conference was to implement the decisions of the Na-
tional Food Conference and of the East China T aderConference. AtotheCcon-
cluding session, Chou K ang-men of Peiping, manage,
addressed the conference. He stated that the central tasks in the realm of
food grains is the control, transportation, and markkettingsof thebgrain. Hepro-
stressed that during the rainy season, especially, eft to
tect grain from damage and deterioration, ousingkeconomicalsbuteeffective measures
The importance of this must be impressed
grain, and a system of f rewards and punishments should be inaugurated, Chou stated.
Wang Jen-chaff, of the East China Regional Company, in the final address
stressed the responsibility of retail distribution, which, he said, was the most
significant "bridge" between the government and the people. According to Wang,
retail distribution requires efficient local organization; and these operations
should not thought and as political aspects aoftgreatcimportance.asThesCentral that
has human, financial, ,
government's price policy must be faithfully carried out, he said.
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