REPORTS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION DATA

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• Publication Date: July 3, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENT: NFIDEMTIIT
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENC
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Choslovakia DATE OF _
INFORMATION 1949 1950
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Weekly rswspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Prague
DATE
PUBLISHED
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NO. OF PAGES 2
20, 27 Apr 1950
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THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
REPORTS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION DATA
GIVES 1949 HONEY PRODUCTION -- Hospodar, No 16, 20 Apr 50
A total of 110,627 apiculturists kept 589,56? beehives and produced
15,322 kilograms of honey and 1,032 quintals of wax, that is, an average
of 2.6 kilograms of honey and 0.2 kilogram of wax per hive,
A total of 167.5 hectares of cultivated land were devoted to medici-
nal, aromatic, and root plants, and theharveharvest amounted
a harvest 2,660 quintals
in 1949. The Czech Provinces had 73.5 hectares 61,461.
quintals, and Slovakia had 94 hectares with a harvest of 1,199 quintals.
Only 126,533 quintals of wine grapes were harvested in the Czech Pro-
thater in 1949. only 76 ,097 hectoliters
ers were grape
pr juice produced hectare of vine-
yards. that year; this means that t 13.5 hectol
yards. In Slovakia, 426,137 quintals of grapes and 260,465 hectoliters of
grape juice, that is, 24 hectoliters per hectare of vineyards,. were produced
in 1949.
The Czechoslovak State Farms had 85,000 hens, 7,600 turkeys, 10,600
ducks. and 2,100 geese, as of 1 January 1950. The second year of the FIve-
Year Plan calls for an-increase to 250,000 hens, 20,000 turkey hens, and
20,000 ducks.
IMPROVE SUGAR BEET PRODUCTION -- Hospodar, No 16, 20 Apr 50
It was emphasized at a press conferende.of the Czechoslc- k Sugar Mill
Industry at 13rno.that the reRson for the nonfulfillment of the tasks in the
Two-Year Plan and the first year of the Five-Year Plan :ras.largely the insuf-
ficient delivery of beets to the sugar mills. In 1947, the main cause was the
catastrophic drought. In 1948, beet pests and beet diseases resulted in a
lower harvest.
The year 1949 was also not fully satisfactory. The somewhat delayed
promulgation of the supplementary plan, as well as-insufficient care in the
preparation of the land for sowing , frequently unsatisfactory seeds,,pbor
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care and protection of the crops, occasional cultivation of mixed crops, break-
age of sugar-beet leaves, and careless feeding of the beets, unfavorably affect-
ed beet deliveries.
Nevertheless, the sugar compaign of 1949-1950 had many advantages compared
with the previous campaigns. The elimination of duplication in sugar production
played an important part in the development of the sugar-milling industry. About
two thirds of the mills were nationalized, while one third o? the mills were co-
operatives.
A consistent decentralization has been carried out. By the liquidation of
the central offices of concerns, each sugar mill has become an independent state
enterprise.
GIVES 1949 MILK PRODUCTION -- Hospodar, No 17, 27 Apr 50
According to Statisticke Informace of the State Statistical Office, a total
of 19,031,618 hectoliters of milk was produced in the Czech ProvincesEelso heee
in this issue of Hos odar odar these figures are given as apparently applying
entire country~in 1949, the average daily output per cow amounting to 3.9 liters.
Of this total, 12,026,929 hectoliters of milk, or a daily average of 2.5 liters
per cow, were delivered. The farmers retained 7,004,689 hectoliters of milk, or
37 percent of the total output. Because it cannot be assumed that the data cover
all the milk produced, evidently the share retained by the farmers is even great-
er.
Czechoslovak canneries are capable of processing at least 1,500 carloads
of raspberries a year. Only 15 carloads were purchased by the canneries in 1949.
The 1949 collection of empty poppy heads, earmarked for the production of
medicines, yielded 160,931 kilograms of raw materials.
A total of 2 million young epwLs from the mouth of the Loire will be im-
ported in 1950. Aircraft will be used for transportation.
The 1949 output of fur's is estimated at about 5,000 otter, 150 mink, and
500 silver and platinum fox.-
A total of 2,400 hogs are being fattened in the Gigant in Smirice. The
daily gain in weight per hog ranges from 60 to 90 decagrams. In average of 1,560
kilograms of pork is produced daily.
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