SURVEYS AGRICULTURAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS, JANUARY - JUNE 1951, KWANGTUNG PROVINCE

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• Document Release Date: August 25, 2011
• Sequence Number: 667
• Publication Date: August 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CoNFIDENTIAL CONFIDF! A 1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
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PUBLISHED Canton
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 Jul 1951
LANGUAGE Chinese
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SURVEYS AGRICULTURAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
JANUARY - JUNE 1951, KWANGTUNG PROVINCE
A 4-day provincial agricultural conference was held in July to
review the work of the first half of 1951 in Kwangtung. Representa-
tives from farm areas and agricultural officials, in discussing ways
and means of increasing production, stressed the need of cooperation
between farmers and government as well as implementation of current
political movements in future agricultural programs.
The reports show that under the flood-prevention program, 35,006
dams and 13,175,069 cubic meters of dikes were repaired, in addition
to the dredging of 141,296 cubic meters of river mud. About a million
head of draft oxen have been inoculated in conjunction with the pest
and epidemic control program.
In spite of the flood and unfavorable weather early this year, pro-
duction of rice and other foodstuffs is expected to be 2,100,000 and
1,850,000 market piculs Lone market picul is about 110 pounde, re-
spectively, above the planned goals. Fruit, sugar cane, hemp, tobacco,
and silk production is also expected to exceed that of last year by
large percentages, mostly on the basis of increased area planted. In
the afforestation program trees have been planted in over 4 million
mou fne mou equals 1/6 acre during the first half of 1951.
The Department of Agriculture and Forestry of the Kwangtung People's Govern-
ment sponsored an agricultural conference, 20 - 28, July to review the agricul-
tural work accomplished in Kwangtung Province during the first half of 1951.
Attending the conference were farm representatives from the important hsiens in
Kwangtung, officials of the department, and agricultural specialists and professors.
Vice-chairman Fang-fang and Li Chang-ta of the Kwangtung People's Government. pre
sided rover.'the' sessions.. The topics of discussion centered on the steps taken
to combat spring disasters dun to the weather and measures to be adopted for the
coming summer harvest and subsequent planting. The problems,of implementing agri-
cultural production in conjunction with the three current political movements,
namely, aid to Korea, suppression of counterrevolutionariesand land reform, were
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