NORTHERN REGIONS STRESS COTTON PLANTING; NORTHEAST SETS 1950 PRODUCTION GOALS

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• Publication Date: June 19, 1950
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED 12 Apr - 27 May 1950
LANGUAGE Chinese
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NORTHERN REGIONS STRESS COTTON' PLANTING;
NORTHEAST SETS 1950 PRODUCTION GOALS
TO PLANT 50, MILLION MOU OF COTTON -- New Y^rk Hua-ch'iao Jih-pao, 27 May 50
Peiping, 16 May (Hsin-hua) -- The planting of 50 million mou Cone mou
equals 116 acre] of cotton is almost finished in the cotton-producing areas
throughout China. The North, Northeast, and Northwest areas are either com-
pletely finished or nearly finished, while planting in the Central and South
and the East China areas is now in progress.
According to progress reports from various areas, 1+,170,000 mou of cotton
was planted in the Northeast during April and May, enough to produce more than
55,700 tons of cotton, and enough to supply all the cotton mills in the North-
east.
In North China, a total of 19,550,000 mou has already been planted in
Hopeh, Ping-yuan, and Shansi provinces, compared to a total planned acreage
of 18 million mou for these three provinces.
In the Northwest China area, planting of 3,880,000 mou of cotton to pro-
duce 1,320,000 shih tan fne shih tan equals 110.23 pounds7 will be completed
soon. In th.: main cotton-producing area of the central plain district of
Shensi Province, the planting of 550,000 mou, or about 90 percent of the planned
acreage, has already been completed.
Planting is now in progress in the Central and South and East China areas.
Kiangsi Province has already completed planting 270,000 mou, and two hsiens in
Ronan Province have completed their total planned acreage of 221,000 mou.
In the East China area, Luan-pei Special District in Shantung Province has
planted one million mou, or 70 percent of the planned acreage, and Ch'ing-ho
Special District has completed planting 690,000 mou.
The areas which have not yet completed planting are Hunan and Hupeh prov-
inces in Central and South China and Kiangsu, Anhwei, and Chekiang provinces.
in East China.
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SHENSI INCREASES COTTON PLANTING -- Canton Nan-fang Jih-pao, 21 " 50
Sian, 20 May (Hsin-hua) -- In Shensi Province, nearly 3,200,000 mou have
been planted in cotton this spring. This amounts to 15.6 percent of the
nation-wide estimate for 1950. The area planted represents a 10-percent in-
crease for Shensi Province over the 1949 figure. In some districts, young
cotton plants from the nurseries has already been transplanted into the soil.
According to the 1949 plan to improve the cotton yield and technical condi-
tions, Shensi Province is expected to produce more than 1,050,000 piculs of
raw cotton in 1950.
In an effort to achieve this goal, the Shensi Provincial People's govern-
ment has designated certain areas where farmers are to spread night-soil to
overcome the dearth of fertilizer for their cotton. The provincial government
is also distributing 2,000 tons of chemical fertilizers on loan to cotton farm-
ers. This is sufficient to enrich over 270,000 mou of land. In mid-April,
the Northwest Branch of the People's Bank of China opened up loans for farming
tools and insecticide equipment, amounting to 150,000 catties of millet, and
loans for expanding cotton fields, totaling 9 million catties. They intend to
rehabilitate 220,000 mou of flooded cotton fields.
In certain cotton areas, however, the plants have grown poorly, because
farmers were careless in examining the seeds. The various levels of the
people's government are now exerting great efforts to supplement the cotton
planting. The People's Bank in all areas has a tremendous loan program to
provide additional supplies of cottonseeds during this period. In Kuan-chung
District, the supplemental planting has been-completed. In Chang-an Hsien,
over 2,000 additional mou of barren land has been planted in cotton.
ANNOUNCE FARM PRODUCTION GOALS -- Canton Nan-fang J.ih-pao, 12 Apr'50
-Mukden, 9 April (Hain-hua) -- A meeting of the people's representatives
of Sungkiang Province was held from 25 to 29 March, and another meeting of
Heilungkiang Province representatives was in session from 25 to 31 March 1950.
At the Sungkiang meeting, the agricultural production plans for 1950 were an-
nounced by Governor Feng Chung-yun (1) /Enumbers refer to appended characters7
as follows:
In 1948, Sungkiang Province produced 2,197,600 tons of food, and in 1949,
1,600,000 tons. Production in 1949 was less than during 1948, due to drought
and damage from insects and hail. However, Sungkiang Province must produce
2,655,000 tons of food in 1950, and this goal can be attained by increasing
production from the acreage already under cultivation, and be reclaiming 59,000
hsiang fo-ne hsiang equals 1 116 acres7 of additional land.
At the Heilungkiang meeting, Governor in I-fu (2) announced that in 1949,
his province produced 3,220,000 tons of food, 240,000 tons more than 1948.
However, in 1950, 4 million tons of food must be produced, and an additional
1,250,000 mou of land must be reclaimed.
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