PROGRESS OF THE USSR FOOD INDUSTRY DURING THE POSTWAR FIVE-YEAR PLAN

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• Publication Date: August 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Food industry, production
HOW
PUBLISHED Pamphlet
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED 1950
LANGUAGE
AFF6CT
STATESS WINFO 17.1% ATHE MEANI NIG NO OF THE DEFE
NATION L 0113TH XCU UNMENTITEDCONTAI
ESPIONAGE ACTN SO
U. S C.. SI AND 32. 45 AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
NIS ITE CO ST TLAW. 1 REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM OIS' PRONIDIIT ED, IS PRO-
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SECURtU INFOt''FAT!^M
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1946 - 1950
DATE DIST. / p Aug 1951
NO. OF PAGES 15
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Pod" em Pishchevo Prom ahlennosti SSSR v Poslevo enno Stalinsko
Pyatiletke Progress of the USSR Food Industry During the Postwar
Stalin Five-Year Plan), Izdatel'stvo "Pravda," 1950,
PROGRESS OF THE USSR FOOD INDUSTRY DURING THE
POSTWAR FIVE-YEAR PLAN
The USSR grain problem was solved during the prewar Five-Year Plans, and
the meat and dairy industries were greatly strengthened.. Provision of these
basic sources of foodstuffs guaranteed a high tempo of development in food-
processing production.
Until World War II, a capital investment of 8 billion rubles had been in-
vested in the various branches of the USSR food industry. These funds permitted
the creation of new enterprises, supplied with the best equipment, and the large-
scale refitting of thousands of old enterprises.
In 1940, the USSR's focd-industry enterprises produced goods valued at
13.1 billion rubles, whereas in 1911 the total output value was 2.9 billion
rubles. These figures include meat, dairy, and fish production.
Despite the great losses suffered during the war, by 1949, many branches
of the food industry were exceeding their plans, and had attained the Dewar
level of production. In the first 4 years of the postwar Five-Year Plan, the
output of sugar increased 4.4 times, animal fats, 2.8 times; vegetable oils,
2.6 times; and fish, 1.7 times..
Restoration of Capacity and Growth of Food Production
Several dozen branches of the food industry are engaged in processing
vegetable and meat products. All these branches, administered until 1939 by
one People's Commis-ariat of Food Industry USSR, grew to such an extent that
it became necessary to create three separate people's commissariats: food,
meat and dairy, and fish industry.
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CONFTDE1 T?AL
In this article, we -will dlsr.us? development problems of the 23 food branches
administered by tare Min,st--ry 3i+ F;d inius_ry USSR, including the following
branches: bakery, sugar, fats and oils, margarine, alcohol, canned goods, con-
fectionery, tea, salt, vitamins, liquor and vodka, wine, beer, macaroni, fruits
and vegetables, r.oncentrated, foods, starch syrups, soft drinks, yeast, tobacco,
makhorka, soap, and toilet articles. The branches c?f industry are closely
bound up with the entire raticna; economy.
FT?oducts cf enterrrri_es of t:e M1ni-try of Food InduGtry USSR represent
45 per-=_nt of tr er,tirf=. national r'-tart t. n^wer
Y-=re a'c f::d rnbb,r;try, employlnc 1L55
million p-opi..
it. a t.- m:ndm:_ q?.rantity cf h=avy.duty te-hni_al and thermotech-
nical equ^x-.nt ar. ir,?,-,u cp=rati^r a..;t-.znati: mac'.in~ry, the fend industry
prprc't.= :.]U l'. a blem *.: ..'117- natl.,r..ai. M.--i T;-?hui'LdinR industry. The country
is supplying the food industry with -quipr,???nt ar.9 `ranspc??rtation. valued at 700
million ruble annually
During the war, ab::u* 5,500 -f it:; rle_ ris r: wer'.: destrccyed aryl razed by
tide German inva~