AGRICULTURAL-MACHINE BUILDING WEAK IN FIRST QUARTER; NOTE SOME NEW PRODUCTS

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• Publication Date: June 12, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Agricultural machinery
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED USSR
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PUBLISHED 19 Di >.r - 1 Apr 1950
LANGUAGE Russian
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AGRICtJL'IURAi.-MACHINE BUILDING WEAK IN FIRST QUARTER;
NOTE SOME NEW PRODUCTS
The agricultural-machine-building industry, whose 1950 program calls for
a considerable increase in production, has not taken any measures to meet the
difficulties which this will inevitably entail. It failed by a considerable
margin to meet the January plan. It showed -omewhat better results in Febru-
ary and March, but is still on the debit side.
one of the main reasons for the lack of success is that the billet shops
in a number of plants, which produce steel and iron castings, have lowered
their quality of work. Yet these shops are the most decisive in the whole pro-
duction process.
The Tula Self-Propelled Combine Plant (director, Yes'kov) produced 62 per-
cent less iron castings in January than in December and failed to fulfill even
half Df the month plan. Similarly, the following plants failed to meet the Jan-
uary plan for metal castings: Rostsel'mash (director, Rybin), Uzbeksel'mash
(director, Zhuralev), Krasnyy Aksay (director, Sherde.kev), Si'isel'mash (director,
Zabaluyev), and others. Sarkisov, chief of Glavkombaynprom (Main Administration
of Combine Industry), Alekseyev, chief of Glavpochvomash (Main Administration of
Ground Machines), and Artamonov, chief of the Main Administration of Animal Hus-
bandry Machinery, under whose jurisdiction the above plants operate, should have
taken emergency measures to correct the situation in January.
Glavpochvomash has been particularly remiss in leadership. It failed to
spur the Plant imeni October Revolution and the Kamenka Sel'mash Plant when
these two plants delayed the mechanization of their casting shops.
COMBINE PLANT LAGGING -- Izvestiya, No 70, 23 Mar 50
The Krasnoyarsk Self-Propelled Combine Plant managed to decrease labor con-
sumption during the past year 40 percent. Nevertheless, it failed to carry out
the year plan, In 1950, the plant is scheduled to increase considerably the
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gross production of self-propelled combines, but so far the management and Party
leadership have failed to make any preparations for this task. The plant''s po-
tential remains unutilized; shop operations are in a hectic state; workers often
remain idle because of delayed supplies of uwt_-rials and parts; high-speed
methods for working metal are adopted very slowly.
In 1949, following criticism in Izvestiya, the Ministry of Agricultural-
Machine Building USSR made a brief atremedy matters, but has lapsed
back into negligence. It has failed to assign the plant sufficient funds for
housing and to date the latter has no polyclinic, bathhouse, or children's in-
stitution.
In planning deliveries of materials and semifinished products. the ministry
allows 20-25 days for transit, whereas a shipment takes 25-40 days to arrive
even under the most favorable conditions. Repeated appeals to the ministry to
take this plant under special consideration have been to no avail. Moreover, it
is difficult to understand the ministry's orders for spare parts for the Kommu-
nar combine when these must travel 4,000-5,000 miles to reach the central areas.
In 1949, 500 carloads of spare parts were sent out; these parts could have been
successfully produced somewhere nearer the consuming areas. It is time the min-
istry gave some attention to the Krasnoyarsk Plant, which must provide combines
for the Siberian, Kazakh, and Far Eastern kolkhozes.
FARM MACHINERY PLANT BACKWARD -- Pravda ilkrainy, No 76, 30 Mar 50
The Osipenko Pervomaysk Agricultural-Machine-Building plant (director,
Semayev) has every reason to be a first-class enterprise in view of its excellent
personnel and equipment, yet it has failed to meet its plans since the beginning
of this year. Its products are poor in quality, and in January its production
coats increased over the elan as follows: reapers, 42 percent; horsedrawn rakes,
125 percent; tractor rakes, 41 percent.
The main reason for this lag is the reluctance of the management to adopt
new techniques. Many parts and attachments are turned out by hand; 70 percent
of the total production is manual. In the forging shop, over 50 reaper and rake
parts arc made by hand in three to four operations; this could be done in one
operation by the use of molds, and would free about ten workers. In the machine
shop, wheel hubs are bored on a vertical lathe at the rate of 30 per shift,
whereas 100 per shift could be produced on a radial drilling machine. In this
shop, too, there are 15 high-duty combination machine tools which are scarcely
utilired. Similar out-of-date methods are employed in the other shops.
The methods employed in the casting shop are particularly primitive. About
80 percent of the work is done by hand, including the preparation of forming ma-
terials. Workers are idle 25-30 percent of the time waiting for supplies. Re-
jects amount to 20 percent in gray iron parts and 25 percent in forgehiro iron.
shops;
Stamps and attachments are badly worn in the casting, forging, o they should be replaced. In the current year, there was the following overcon-
sumption of materials: 886 tons of gray iron, 885 tons of rolled iron, 57 tons
of paints, 89 tons of mixed scrap, and 1,800 cubic meters of lumber.
The management turns a deaf ea: to workers' suggestions for rationalization.
The shameful backwardness of the Pervomaysk Plant can no longer be tolerated.
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY PLANT BEHIND SCHEDULE -- Pravda Vostoka, No 75, 31 Mar 50
On 15 March, after much delay, the Chirchik Agricultural-Machine-Building
Plant started production of tractor graders (planirovshchik) and at present is
fulfilling barely one quarter of the plan. Though time-consuming, graders are
simple implements to manufacture. The main reasons for the lag are poor organi-
zation of supply, lack of preliminary preparation, and errors made by the de-
signers and technicians.
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CRITICIZE MINISTRY FOR FAILURE TO ASSIST PLANTS -- Trud, No 71, 24 Mar 50
At the Fo-rth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Agricultural-Machine-
Building Workers' Trade Union, Timofeyev, Gura, and Gireyev, plant committee
chairmen, respectively, of the Odessa Plant imeni October Revolution, Roatsel'-
mash, and the Kharkov Serp i Molot Plant, criticized the Central Committee for
failure to organize an exchange of information between plants with regard to
wages. They also pointed to the inadequate material and technical assistance
rendered? to the plants and the serious miscalculations made by the ministry in
this respect.
DELIVER:) T" ,W MACEINERY, PARTS -- Leningradskaya Pravda, No 71, 24 Mar 50
coal-machine-building plants have undertaken to produce spare parts for
agricultural machinery in addition to their basic programs. They have already
turned out about 50,000 such parts, including plowshares, moldboards, tractor
cylinder pistons, gear wheels, and parts for seeders, combines, reapers, and
other machines.
The Stalino Agricultural-Machine Building Plant has dispatched the first
thousand tractor shelle-?s and dozens of general-purpose trailers to the Kuban',
Crimea, Moldavian SSR, and other southern regions of the Soviet Union. The
trailers can seed in one run a 25-meter-wide strip.
The plant's machine and assembly shop produced 170 five-bottom plows above
plan at the beginning of March.
So, `,: ! a rI -Loldaviya, No 61, 24 Mar 50
The Stalino Agricultural-Machine-Building Plant has completed the quar'-'r
pia-a fcr the production of plowshares and moldboards for high-duty plows.
OUT NEW-TYPE PLOWS -- Sovetskaya Litva, No 68, 19 Mar 50
Agricultural-machine-building plants have begun production of five new types
of plows for large tracts, heavy soil, and orchards. They are equ.pped with,var-
ious automatic devices which improve the plowing and make the operator's task
easier. One of these, a five-bottom, 175-centimeter plow, designed for heavy
,-.1 and capable of plowing to a depth of 27 centimeters, will be widely used on
koikhozes.
The new plows are designed to be attached to the powerful S-80 and DT-54
tractors.
DESIGN NEW-TYPE COTTON CULTIVATOR -- Pravda Ukrainy, No 73, 26 Mar 50
The Dnepropetrovsk Plant imeni Voroshilov has assembled the first suspension-
type six-row cultivator for nonirrigated cotton. This spring several thousand
such machines will be produced.
At the Tashkent Milling-Machine and Elevator Plant, a new type of conveyer
for untcading bags of flour and an automatic grain feeder have gone into series
production. The plant is successfully meeting its norms, exceeding production
of last year more than two times.
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PEST-FIGHTING MACHINES PASS TEST -- Leningradskaya Pravda, No 78, 1 Apr 50
At the Leningrad Plant imeni Karl Liebknecht, new pest-fighting machines
have been tested and found satisfactory. One of them, a suspension tractor
duster, is equipped with a ventilator and a dosing mechanism for feeding the
chemicals. The duster can. be mounted without any special attachments on a
KD-35 tractor and can process 16 hectares in 8 hours. Another machine, a small
horse-and-motor sprayer, can pass easily between rows of young trees 2 meters
high and can Ye employed in tree nurseries, vineyards, and field cultures.
DESIGNERS IMPROVE STALINETS COMBINES -- Trud, No 77, 31 Mar 50
The plan of Engineer B. Push::in of the Yaroslavl' Automobile Plant for
computing the rise of productivity of individual workers as a result of tech-
nical improvements has been met with enthusiasm by designers of the Rostsel'-
mash Plant.
Recently the plant's designers improved the Stalinets-6 combine and .
thereby made possible a saving of one million rubles a year in metal, timber,
and other materials. They have also designed an improved version of the
Stalinets-8 combine, which will consume no more metal and labor than the
Stalinets-6.
INSTITUTE HELPS FARM MACHINERY PLANT -- Pravda Vostoka, No 74, 30 Mar 50
Tht Tashkent Agricultural-Machine-Building Plant encountered a number of
difficulties .in producing its first SKhM-48 cotton-picking machine, in particu-
lar the production of the spindle. The Central Asia Polytecnnical Institute
came to its assistance and helped it set up a conveyer line for the manufacture
of the spindle and solve its problem of producing modified iron. At the same
time, the institute helped improve the wear resistance of the Bessemer converter
linings.
PUTS OUT MOBILE REPAIR SHOPS -- Sovetskaya Litva, No 78, 1 Apr 50
The Moscow Zapaschast' Plant has delivered a number of mobile repair shops
to sovkhozes of the Moldavian SSR and to Gor'kiy, Tambov, Omsk, and other ob-
lasts. The shop is in the form of a van and is mounted on the chassis of the
GAS-AA truck. It is equipped with a drilling machine, an outdoor forge, and a
set of fitter's tools.
The plant produced about 200 mobile shops in the?.irst quarter 1950.
SELLS AGRICULTURAL MACHINES AND PARTS -- Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, No 66,
29 Mar 50
The Kazsel'khozsnab (Kazakh Agricultural Supply) Trust announces the sale
of a large number of horse- and tractor-drawn machines, including straw cutters,
rdbt cutters, crushers, automatic drinking troughs, electric shears, butter
churners, separators, and spare parts. -- Advertisement
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