REPORTS PROGRESS OF IRRIGATION WORK; SCORE KULAK PROPAGANDA

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• Publication Date: December 6, 1950
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REPORTS PROGRESS OF IRRIGATION WORK;
SCORE KUrAK PROPAGANDA
PLAN DAMS, RESERVOIRS -- Sofia, Izgrev, 3 Nov 50
The Rozova Dolina irrigation syndicate in Kazanluk spent 52 million leva for
its construction work in 1948 and 1949. At present, its operations extend over
the most fertile areas of the district: to the east of the Georgi Dimitrov Dam,
along the Tundzha River as far as the villages of Oryakhovo and Dubovo, and.to
the south of Stara Planina between the villages of Sheynovo and Enina, encompass-
ing the larger part of the cultivated lands of Kazanluk Okoliya. The waters of
the Tundzha River and other streams of the area are included in the system. How-
ever, these water reserves have proved to be insufficient for the area, and sur-
veys are under way to use the ground water for the establishment of dams and res-
ervoirs. The running waters in this region can irrigate only 20,000 decares of
arable land, whereas 40,000 decares are under the jurisdiction of the syndicate.
To irrigate the 10,000 decares belonging to the villages of Ovoshtnik, Cher-
ganovo, Dolni Mudretsi, Dubovo, and Oryakhovo, the syndicate has constructed two
electric pumping stations with electric power lines at the villages of Ovoshtnik
aid Dolni Mudretsi and is completing the construction of 15 canals for these eta-
ti.Tnsa The electric pumps provide the canals with abugdant water reserves, which
irr.'.gate the truck gardens of the farm workers' cooperatives.
For the remaining 30,000 decares, current surveys will establish the most
suitable spots for the construction of small dams and reservoirs, and the best
method for the utilization of ground water with the help of. the electric pumps;
however, the sounding work has not yet been completed. Small dams-at Shipka
village and on the Stara River at Enina village are also comtemplated. These
two dams will provide-irrigation for 10,000 decares of arable land. For 1951,'
.the syndicate is planning the construction of a water reservoir to.the north of
Sheynovo village and another on the Selska 'River at Shipka village.
The state so far has provided most of the funds for this work,-but this
situation cannot last. One of the main shortcomings-of the enterprise has been
the inaccurate payment of membership dues and the insufficient cooperation of mem-
bers in construction work. It has also been a current practice.to conceal irri-
gated areas in order to evade taxes. More than half of the lands registered in
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Economic - Agriculture
Daily newspapers
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the syndicate are not irrigated and cannot be used for intensive cultivation. On
the other nand, the water provided for irrigation is not efficiently utilized and
huge quantities are misappropriated; the equipment is not maintained with the nec-
essary care. Unfortunately the management of the syndicate is not working in close
cooperation with the okoliya people's soviets, while the village soviets, farm
workers' cooperatives, and mass organizations are not giving proper support to the
syndicate. All these shortcomings must be eliminated to assure the proper success
of the work.
SCORE KULAK PROPAGANDA -- Sofia, Rabotnichesko Delo, 30 Oct 50
During the present sawing campaign, Ruse Okoliya has been seriously lagging
in plan fulfillment, especially in the southern part of the area. The reason for
this failure is seen in widespread kulak agiUtion which aims at undermining the
sowing plan by urging the medium-and smzll landholders to bury their seed and re-
fuse'to sow. A further reason for the shortcoming is attributed to the gullibility
of some village chairmen, who lack information on the quantity of seed held by new
cooperative members and private farmers.
In the villages with a predominant Turkish population, the peasants refrain
from sowing because they still believe the agitators who tell them that the An-
kara government will soon settle the problem of their emigration to Turkey. On
the other hand, a vicious propaganda tries to persuade the more prosperous farmers
who recently joined the cooperatives not to deliver their seed reserves, and many
of them have followed suit and failed to furnish a single handful of seed.
In one of the villages, the secretary of the party committee stated that the
poor farmers and the Communists duly delivered the seed to th. cooperative, but all
the others refused to do so and pretended that they did not have any. Nonparty
cooperative members are not participating in the sowing campaign and the propa-
ganda for seed delivery, whereas the women have not been enrolled by the party com-
mittees. Even in those villages where most farmers have joined the cooperatives,
the kulaks are trying to induce new members to sabotage the sowing action. Many
of the latter have been found guilty of concealing large quantities of seed while
requesting seed subsidies from the government; some of these cooperators have put
away as much as 5 tons of seed. So far, local party organizations have been very
lax in correcting such harmful activities, and an energetic campaign must be launched
to put an end to these scc. dalous conditions.
SOVIET EXPERT CHECKS LOCAL TRACTOR WORK -- Sofia, Izgrev, 1 Nov 50
Soviet engineer M. V. Stepanyuk, a specialist in tractor work, toured the
MTS of Ruse Okoliya on 28, 29, and 30 October 1950 and gave many valuable instruc-
tions to the workers and supervisors. Stepanyuk said that both the operators and
supervisors were not sufficiently familiar with thei.r?machines and therefore not
aware of their proper manipulation; parts were used and discarded prematurely, etc.
Stepanyuk also unmasked acts of sabotage committed by the former owners of
the machines. T. Rusev of Novo Selo, Ruse Okoliya, former owner of a threshing ma-
chine, melted the bearing of a STZ-NATI tractor; R. Marinov, a member of the MTS
Brigade No 5 in Ruse Okoliya, was also revealed as a saboteur; and M. Trifonov, a
kulak, likewise damaged a STZ-NATI tractor.
The Soviet engineer also pointed out that MIS supervisors frequently. pursue
harmful personnel policies and favor old-time kulaks instead of young. and poor, but
reliable, operators. At a meeting in Ruse, Stepanyuk emphasized that kulak activi-
ties were responsible fo- the fact that relatively new machines were'being with-
drawn from circulation. He also criticized severely the poor organization of work
brigades and explained the correct system of technical and accounting procedures.
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SCORE SHORTCOMINGS IN MTS -- Sofia, Izgrev, 2 Nov 50
The MTS of Stalin 0krug are still suffering from serious shortcomings, the
main ones of which are the defectiveness of the machines. the frequent breakdowns
and the poor organization of brigade work. Many brigades exist only on paper;
the tractors operate: over widely scattered areas, sometimes 10-20 kilometers apart,
and are not attached to a particular faro workers' cooperative.
It has been noted that tractor work in the Tolbukhin area has been very poor.
Furthermore, in various areas the accounting personnel have failed to set up cor=
rect account reports based on the shift charts. The political supervisors have
also been lax-in conducting educational propaganda campaigns; as a result, competi-
tive work has not developed, and youth, party, and trade-union organizations have
not been established.
Because of those failures, D. Mateev, MTS director for the Tolbukhin municipal
area, has been dismissed, and the same measure has been applied to other supervisors
in this area and in all of Stalin Okrug for their hostile attitude and disregard of
their duties.
TO PROMOTE FORESTATION -- Sofia, Izgrev, 3 Nov 50
The capitalist regime left the country with 4 million decares of bare and
eroded land and 4.5 million decares of decayed forests, as well as vast areas of
entirely deforested hill and mountain lands. No afforestation system had been pro-
perly developed. In the period from 1885 to 1920, only 82,452 decares were affor-
ested and 54,402 reforested, and in the following years an average of 30,000-50,000
decares were afforested annually. In 1947, 127,298 decares were afforested and
27,631 reforested, demonstrating the great progress which the new regime had made
in the field of forestation. In 1948, 172,543 decarej were afforested and 123,966
reforested, whereas in the spring of 1950 the afforestation plan was fulfilled ~by6
87>7 percent, the reforestation by 43.6, and the replenishment of sparse forests
by 67.1 percent; the plan for establishing mixed plantings was fulfilled by 77.3
percent.
However, many thousands of decares of eroded and bare soil must still be af-
forested before the end of the year. A considerable part of these --eas will be
afforested by the State Forests enterprise, which will conduct the work on 4,400
decares in Berkovitsa Okoliya, on 3,300 in Peshtera, 3,100 in Velingrad, 2,500
decares each in Khaskovo and Razlog Okoliyas, and 2,000 decares in Kolarovgrad
Okoliya. Large areas will also be afforested this fall in Nikopol, Oryakhovo,
and Svishtov okoliyas and in the Stalin municipal area, with 2,500 decares in
each; 2,000 decares in Lom, 1,450 decares in Ruse Okoliya, etc.
The productivity and speed of forestation work has been increased since the
introduction of planting hoes and planting boards. However, fall planting is en-
countering e some mainly with regard to recruiting the necessary man-
p. period usually takes 30 days, and it'is hard to find large
numbers of workers for such a short time, especially as the planting season coin-
cides with the fall deep-plowing campaign.
This year's afforestation campaign is being conducted by a central action
committee established under the National Council of the Fatherland Front and in-
cluding representatives- of the Bulgarian Communist Party, the Fatherland Front,
the Ministry of Forests, the General Trade Union, the Dimitrov Youth Association,
the National Union of Bulgarian Women, and other organizations. Okrug, okoliya,
and local committees will handle the afforestation work. The central action com-
mittee and the commissions will launch a wide educational campaign to encourage
high-quality and speedy forestation work.
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REPORT FALL SOWING PROGRESS -- Sofia, Izgrev, 3 Nov 50
The fall sowing campaign is reaching its final phase and, as of 31 October,
showed the following results: wheat sowing throughout the country was fulfilled by
95 percent of the plan (101.9 percent on Farm Workers' Cooperatives and 100 percent
on State Farms); rye sowing was fulfilled by 103.1 percent (106.7, 106.3) and
barley-sowing by 83.8 percent (82.5; 97.1).
The cooperatives and state farms have exceeded the wheat and rye, sowing quotas,
but the sowing of barley is still lagging in some okoliyas.
INCREASE N MBER OF FARM WORKERS' CO-OPS -- Sofia, Izgrev, 31 Oct 50
As of 15 October 1950, the number of Farm Workers' Cooperatives in Bulgaria
was 2,566, including 16.3 percent of all farms throughout the country and 41.9 per-
cent of all arable land.
COLLECT 100,000 IQIAGRAMS OF ACORNS -- Sofia Izgrev, 1 Nov 50
This year's collection of acorns is in full swing throughout the country; as
of 29-October, it had yielded 100,000 kilograms, The goal of the campaign is the
collection of 250 tons of acorns.
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