RENT REDUCTION, HEAVY RAINFALL, GOVERNMENT AID, MAKE AGRICULTURAL PICTURE BRIGHT

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• Publication Date: May 24, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INIELLiGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE chow
PUBLISHED Hankow; Tientsin; Peiping; Hang
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
9, 11 Apr 1950
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OF THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE MEANING OF ESPIONAGE ACT IO
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DATE DIST. p 'May 1950
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SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEV'I.! DATED INFORMATION
RENT REDUCTION HEAVY RAINFALL GOVERNMENT AID,
MAKE AGRICULTURAL PICTURE BRIGHT
1iUPE11 PROMOTES RENT REDUCTION -- Hankow Chang Chiang Jih-pao, 9 Apr 50
wu-ch'ang -- Hupeh province has taken rent reduction as its central theme
and is extending reduction provisions throughout the province. As of the end
of march 1950, the movement had been applied to more than 70 percent of the
area. It is estimated that reduction will be substantially completed by mid-
May 1950. In the meantime, the province is going ahead with plans for spring
planting.
According to incomplete data, a total of 1,500,000 piculs of foodstuff
accrued to Hopeh farmers as a result of rent reduction, exclusive of other
commodities and benefits. At the same time, a large number of the unscrupu-IOUs l have heldldemocratic been
people's 5governmentsf the villages
anddset upsome
elections ousted
Other reorganization has also taken place. Of the 14,000 villages, more
than 6,000 have established agricultural associations having an aggregate
membership of 920,000 farmers. A provincial agricultural delegates conference
has already been convened and a provincial agricultural aid association has
been established. In addition, farmers are being encouraged to organize mil-
itia units, become Communist Party members, and establish New Democracy Youth
Corps units.
The rent-reduction movement began the latter part of 1949 when the pro-
vincial government ordered a province-wide mobilization
unite behind the rent-reduction program and in opposition
Successful propaganda and other countermeasures by landlords, however, created
mistaken concepts and deviations on the part of a large number of cadre, ne-
cessitating the convocation of mass activities conferences throughout
province. Policies and past radicate irregular tendencies anditocstimulate ethewdevelopment ofntheerent to
e
reduction program.
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The next step, taken the latter putt of Janua,-.;e..950, was to set up agri-
cultural delegates assemblies and all-circles people's delegates assemblies,
on a wide scale, as a means of correcting deviations and making decisions on
important matters. All-circles assemblies were called in the 71 hsiens of the
province and a system of agricultural associations established throughout the
various ch'u and villages. As a result, the rent-reduction movement spread
rapidly in February - March 1950. Laxity is still apparent in a few areas,
but is in the process of being corrected.
NORTH GETS HEAVY RAINFALL -- Tientsin Jih-pao, 9 Apr 50
Peiping, 7 April (Hsin-hua) -- Heavy spring downpours brought from one
to 4 inches of rainfall to Hopeh, Shantung, Pingyuan, Chahar, Suiyuan, and
Ronan provinces between the last 10 days of March and the beginning of April.
The general precipitation, heavier than in 1949, should benefit spring wheat
and the planting schedule. In Hopeh, the special districts of Han-tan, Ilsing-
t.lai, Ting-hsien, Shih-chia-chuang, Pao-ting, and Heng-shui received from one
to 4 inches of rain on 24 and 25 March; a continuous downpour on 2 and 3 April
brought over 4 inches to the special district of Tung-hsien. In its first
spring rain, the Chi-nan district of Shantung received 3 to 4 inches during
the last 10 days of March. On 25 and 26 March, there were general rains
throughout Pingyuan; about 4 inches fell in Ho-tse, Liao-ch'eng, P'u-yang, and
HIsin-chiang. On 3 April, rain fell steadily for 6 hours in Chahar. Nearly 2
ts'un /one ts'un is 1.4 inches/ of rain fell on 3 and 4 April in the Kuei-sui
area of Suiyuan Province. In Honan, it rained continuously for several days
prior to 5 April and the total precipitation amounted to over 4 ts'un.
Consequently, the people in these various areas are busy weeding wheat,
doing their spring planting, and planting cotton. Barring unforeseen calami-
ties, the summer yield is expected to be rich.
GOVERNMENT AIDS COTTON, HEMP PLANTING -- Peiping Jen-min Jih-pao, 11 Apr 50
Various local governments in both the Northwest, and Central and Southern
China regions are conducting extensive drives to help farmers make preparations
for the spring planting of cotton and hemp. The Agriculture and Forestry De-
partment-of the Central and Southern China region, hoping to produce 24,600.000
piculs /one picul equals 133 1/? pounds/ of cotton in 1950, organized four
agricultural. advisory units, each consisting of several agricultural techni-
cians, and dispatched them to Honan, Hupeh, Kiangsi, and Hunan provinces to
direct cotton planting.
In Hupeh Province, the Agricultural Department is planning to restore to
cotton growing 4,770,000 mou /one mou equals 1/6 acre] along the Yangtse and
the Han rivers, and to plant 210,000 mou in the Ching-chou (Chiang-ling),
Ilsiang-yang, Mien-yang, and Hsiao-kan areas with the best grade of cottonseed
available in Shanghai.
Kiangsi Province has already purchased and distributed 2,000 piculs of
the best-grade cottonseed to the P'eng-tee and Chiu-chiang areas. This prov-
ince is also trying to regain it, former hemp output, and is planning to plant
50,000 mou in the I-ch'un area. It has bought 30,000 catties of the best-
grade hemp seed from Chekiang Province, and loaned it to various hemp-producing
areas.
Ilonan province has loaned 600,000 catties of the best-grade cottonseed to
the cotton-producing areas of Shen-chou, Lo-yang, Nan-yang, and Shang-ch'fu,
and is planning to plant 180,000 mou of cotton throughout the province.
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t already completed exten-
he Agriculture Department of the acrt;.west has
~e preparation:. cc ee tc: planting. i has purchased 26,400 piculs of
cottonseed and 2,00u tans i' aemnoniun; sulfate chemical fertilizer, and loaned
them to the farmers. .n %,iditiona1 1,000 tons of the same type of fertilizer
is to be purchased Prem. t'e Ministry of Agriculture for distribution within
its region. Six adviser., units were organized to distribute seed and ferti-
itzer and to direct planting of cotton and hemp..
,,IT,KIANG TO PLANT W-2; l,' i'TON AND tiEhiP -- Hangchow Chekiang Jih-pao, 11 Apr 50
,isiao-shah. April -- Farmers in the vicinity of Hsiao-shan, Chekiang,
?,:,? tr, plant more of heir sandy soil in cotton and hemp. At first, when urged
to do so by local cadres; even with the offer of seed and fertilizer, the far-
mers were disinclined to comply because they claimed that previously telUto
authorities had deiinraLely depressed the prices of cotton and hemp paid
farmers at harvest time, so that they were unprofitable crops.
After assurance by the cadres that the Peoples government would never do on and such a thing as that, and an explanation of the great need for
cotton ctton andphempd
in an industrial economy, the farmers agreed to raise
appointed a committee of their own trustworthy men to inspect the handling of
the seed and fertilizer to prevent its diversion to other purposes.
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