REPORTS LIVESTOCK, AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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• Publication Date: June 19, 1950
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CLASSIFICATION CoNFIDFIr'IAL t~~fl lkkl
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
096
COUNTRY CzechoFlo9akie
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Prague
DATE
PUBLISHED 2 - 23 Mar 1950
LANGUAGE
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REPORTS LIVESTOCK, AGRICULTURAL COOPERATIVE
DEVELOPMENTS IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA
COMMERCIAL HOG SLAUGHTERING INCREASES -- Hospodar, No 9, 2 Mar 50
According to Statisticke Informace, Series V, No 40, of the State Statis-
tical Office, the number of fattened livestock slaughtered in 1948 and 1949
was as follows:
1949
1948
Beef cattle
488,994
557,617
Bulls
140,663
107,022
oxen
55,663
62,344
cows
193,225
265,626
Heifers
99,443
122,625
Calves
394,267
514,707
Hogs
2,754,974
1,235,031
Commercially
slaughtered
1,646,684
910,135
Domestically
slaughtered
1,108,290
2,145,136
Sheep
62,455
72,721
Goats
22,361
25,456
The decline in domestic slaughtering of hogs is a result not only of the
fact that free domestic slaughtering is dependent on fulfillment of delivery
agreements, but also of the'disappearance of the black market, which had been
supplied largely by home slaughtering. On the other hand, commercial slaugh=
tering, i.e., slaughtering which supplies meat and fats to the urban popula-
tion, rose by 80 percent. This is a.result of the effort to increase the num-
ber of hogs, an effort which has been successful, since the Five-Year Plan tar-
get figure has already been reached. Above all, this has been accomplished by
the mass fattening centers, from which hogs are sent to be slaughtered.
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
ARMY IX, AIR
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949 - 1950
DATE DIST. If Jun 1950
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COOPERATIVE MOVEMENT PROGRE55r.':: -- tiocpodar, flo 10, 9 Mar 50
Czechoslovak agriculture is characterized by small-scale production, as
7,500,000 hectares of the entire agricultural land are divided into 1,400,000
agricultural holdings and 33 million parcels of an average area of 24 ares.
There are now 2,!!.2 approved :,ZD (Unified Agricultural Cooperatives) with
110,000 members, as well as ,316 approved preparatory committees, so that JZD
exist in 3,728 ville.gea Only a few hundred cooperatives, however, are tak-
ing the first primitive steps toward fulfilling the most important functicn,
organizing tht. ', ricue form= of joint cultivation of land. In the fall, a to-
-ral of 314 JZD carried out the f r,111 cooperative work and joint Bowing on
33,291. hectares.
There are now 124 model TZD in the Czech Provinces. Organizationally,
three types of 2241 will be created.
7U with joint sowing but retaining property lines with joint organ-
ization of field work and joint utilization of cooperative and private machin-
ery and drat animals. The harvest will go to the members individually from
each of their parcels.
2. ;ZD which have introduced cooperative sowing by abolishing property
lines and boundaries between individual parcels, and which cultivate the land
jointly and distribute the crop among the members in accordance with the area
of their land.
3. 7ZD in which the members turn their land over to the cooperative for
the purpose of collective management and are rewarded by distributing the out-
put among themselves. The system of distribution is based chiefly on the
amount of work performed and, to a lesser degree, on the area of land turned
over to the cooperative. There are already 30 such JZD.
The land remains in private hands under any of the three systems.
2,098 UNIFIED AGB.ICUL'r1]RAL COOPERATIVES AT END CF 1949 -- Hoepodar, No 12,
Mar 50
A total of 2,098 Unified Agricultural Cooperatives had been established
and approved in Czechoslovakia as of 31 December 1.949, according to Statist
ticke Informace, Series VI, No 2/1950 of the State Statistical Office. Of
these, 11 ,41,( Unified Agricultural cooperatives had been entered in the associa-
tion register. There were 1,648 approved Unified Agricultural Cooperatives in
the Czech Provinces and 450 in Slovakia.
The following numbers of I
individual krajo
Prague 224 Olomouc 97
43
Ceske Budejovice 264 Gottwaldov
8
5
Pilsen 111 Ostrava
122
Karlovy Vary 48 Bratislava
71
Usti nad Labem 164 Nitra
114
Banska Byatrica
Liberec 93
Zilina 42
Hradec Kralove 92
152 Kosice 57
Pardubice
jihlava 52 Presov
1
Brno % .129
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Other sources report that the area cf state farms rose from an original
183,621 hectares to 530,01? hectares in 1949.
AGR.ICLI.TURAL NOTES --- Hospodar, tac 10. 9 Mar 50
A total of 1,383,000,OC0 eggs were produced in Czechs'>>ovekta in 1949.
This figure includes 232,400,000 eggs produced in Slovakia. A total of 579
million eggs, including 57,600,00:: eggs in Slovakia, were purchased for de-
livery in 1949.
Operations in the Gigent at Smirice began on 2 March. A total of 2,000
hogs weighing 50 kilograms each were delivered to the Gigant within 2 days.
They will be fattened within 4 months. The .tack will number over 10,000
head by the end of May.
The Center for Management of Agricultural. Froducte will be the exclusive
purchaser of fruits and vegetables in 1950. The VDP (Wholeeale Distribution
Enterprise) will be the exclusive distributor of the:=~ products.
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