AGITATE TO EXPAND, MULTIPLY FARM WORKERS' CO-OPS; REPORTS ON FALL SOWING CAMPAIGN

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• Publication Date: November 17, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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Economic - Agriculture
Daily newspapers
Sofia
23 - 29 Sep 1950
Bulgarian
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AGITATE TO EXPAND, MULTIPLY FARM WORKERS' CO-OPS;
REPORTS ON FALL SOWING CAMPAIGN
ARMY
FBI
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EVERY VILLAGE IN GRAIN AREA HAS A CO-OP -- Sofia, Izgrev, 28 Sep 50
The agitation campaign to include larger masses of people in the existing
Farm Workers' Cooperatives and to establish new ones in gaining momentum through-
out the country. In Nova Zagora Okoliya, 92 party and 94 village meetings have
been attended by 17,400 people, whereas 513 district conferences have been at-
tended by 13,860 people. Personal agitation is being conducted by 500 farmers.
Farm groups have been organized to visit the cooperatives and study their techni-
cal accomp].irhments; as a result, new cooperatives have been established in five
villages, comprising 2,200 decares of land. The agitation program was intensified
Furthermore, as an effect of the intenzive educational campaign and the unmasking
per decare. Farm Workers' Cooperatives in Subranovo village achieved an average
kilograms per decare, whereas private farmers obtained only 160 jic7 kilograms
join or to establish cooperatives. The Farm Workers' Cooperative in Bikovo vil-
lage achieved un average yield of 224 kilograms of wheat per decare and 236 kil-
during the grain delivery campaign.
Workers' Cooperative.
Zagora Okoliya now has 46 Farm Workers' Cooperatives with 455,120 decares of land,
to sign their applications to join the cooperatives; even the kulaks, seeing them-
celebrated by the mass enrollment in cooperatives of small and medium landholders,
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or 54 percent of the cultivated area and 81.7 percent of the grain area. The
okoliya committee of the Bulgarian Communist Party and the okoliya people's
soviet are dispatching surveyors and experienced brigade workers to assist and
strengthen the newly established cooperatives.
A similar movement is under way in Svishtov and Nikopol okoliyas, where
80 percent of the arable land is included in cooperative farms, whereas in Pleven
Okoliya the figure has already exceeded 80 percent. The same is true of Lukovit
and Lovech okoliyas, where entire villages are joining the cooperative movement,
but their establishment has been postponed to October in order not to delay the
sowing campaign.
TO INTRODUCE CROSS SOWING -- Sofia, Izgrev, 29 Sep 50
Cross sowing, widely applied in the USSR to increase the yield of fall crops,
especially wheat, has been employed on Bulgarian Farm Workers' Cooperatives since
1949. The new system may be operated r4 th horse-drawn or tractor drills, whereby
one half of the seed provided for the given area is sown in one direction and the
remainder in another direction, perF=dicular to the first. The first Bulgarian
rnnrPrctives to use the system have obtained excellent results.
A Farm Workers' Cooperative in Altimir village, Oryakhovo Okoliya, has ob-
tained a yield increase of 22 kilograms per decare from an area measuring 100
decaresia cooperative in Surnevo,Stara Zagora Okoliya, obtained an increase of
35 kilograms from a 600-decare area, etc. The increases are explained by the fact
that under the ordinary drill-sowing system the seeds are sowed 1.5-2 centimeters
apart; but the distance between the rows is usually 11-13 centimeters when horse-
drawn drills are used and 14-15 centimeters for tractor drills. Thus the seeds
are kept too clc?3e together while the rows are too wide apart. Cross sowing does
away with these shortcomings, by keeping the distance between the rows but in-
creasing the distance between the seeds to 3-4 centimeters. As-a result, the
plants are more evenly distributed, soil humidity and staying quality are better
utilized, and the plants have better exposure and are not pressed agait.t each
other; there are also fewer weeds. The only handicap to the new system is that
it requires twice as much work as usual drilling; however, the results largely
compensate for this effort.
SOVIET EXPERT SAYS WOMEN ARE BEST FOR LIVESTOCK FARMING -- Sofia, Izgrev, 26 Sep 50
During the visit of the Soviet agricultural delegation to the Georgi Dimitrov
livestock farm in Veselinovo village, Yambol Okoliya, the Soviet expert Maria
Kharitonovna Savchenko remarked that livestock farming in Bulgaria was mostly done
by men, whereas women are much better fitted for the work, which they perform with
greater care and affection. These natural qualities, Mrs Savchenko said, are most
important in animal care and increase the productivity of the stock.
GIVES DATA ON SOWING PLAN -- Sofia, Izgrev, 29 Sep 50
The Ministry of Agriculture reports the following data on the fulfillment
of the fall sowing 7ampaign throughout the country as of 25 September (in percent):
rye sowing 7.7, rape sowing 47.3, seed cleaning 55.8, seed disinfecting 43.5, pre-
sowing plowing 19.2, and deep fall sowing 11.1.
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PROHIEIT PURCHASE OF Ar,RICUIJPURAL SURPLUSES -- Sofia, Rabotnichesko Delo, 23 Sep 50
The purchase of surplus agricultural products by'state, cooperative, ;and pub-
lic organizations has, been prohibited until further notice. Ari exception'is made-
for private consumers, who may purchase surplus goods for their personal or be-
hold consumption.
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