SOME DATA ON USSR FOOD PRODUCTION AS OF JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1951

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• Publication Date: March 10, 1952
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CLASSIFICATION ";ONFIDENTIAL CONMULN I IALT
SECURITY INFORMATION
CEN?RAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
INFORMATION 1950 - 1951
DATE DIST. /p Mar 1.952
NO. OF PAGES 2
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
SOME DATA ON USSR FOOD PRODUCTION,
AS OF JANUAR -FEBFU1hRy 1951
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Food production
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
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PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
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Georgian SSB
In 1950, 175.1 percent more fish products and 45.4 perzeni core sugar
products were sold in cities of the Georgian SSR than in 1940.?1! The city of
Tbiliei produced the following amounts of food products in 1950, vegetable
oils 2,150 metric tors, margarine 5,471.7 metric tons, industrial soap 6,607.9
metric ten?, table wine 696.2 decaliters, champagne 3,431,000 bottles, and
4,859,200,000 cigsrertee.(2i
There are now 50 tea factories in the republic, as compared with only
three in 1925. The Tbilisi Tea Factory began operating in 1941, and is one of
the most successful enterprises of the Ministry of Food Industry USSR. During
the Fourth Five Year Plan the Mukhayestatskiy, Guriantskiy, Lesichinskiy, and
Gadautskiy tea factories were built and began operations. (3.1 The Ingirskiy
and Kocharskiy tea factories began operating in 1949, and reached full capac-
ity in 1950. Eight new tea factories will be built and put, into partial oper-
ation in 1951, including the Ganakhlebskiy, Tsalendzhikskiy (4), Achkvirakty
Bakhvekiy Palendzhikskiy, Sadzhidzhavskiy, and Chuburiskhindzbskly fac-
tories.(3)
The new Tbilisi Lemonade Plant will begin production in the second quar-
ter 1951. The Sai.rme Fruit Liqueur Plant, now under construction, will begin
production before the end of 1951 with an annual capacity of 2 million bottles.
The first chocolate factory in the Transcaucasus region began operations in
Tbilisi in 1950. A new confection factory will be built in Tbilisi in 1951.
The Kardabakhekiy and 01`chinskiy wineries will be built in 1951. New
breweries are under construction In Sukhumi and Kutaisi. Construction of a
new brewery in Batumi will be completed in the second quarter 1951. The Stal-
inirskiy Brewery began production in 1950; it has an annual capacity of 10,000
hectoliters.(4)
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A fully mechanized bakery was built in Gori in 1950. Pdkeries are now
under construction, and will be in full operation by the end of 1951, in the
cities of Tskhaltubo, Chiatura, and Gagra.(4) Construction ha; tegun on a
bakery in Rustavi which will have a 24-hour capacity of 36 metric tons of
bread and bakery goode.(6)
The Tbilisi Champagne plant, located near Avchala Station, has received
new equipment which will increase its annual capacity to 4,100,000 bottles in
1951.(6)
Azerbaydzhan SSR
In 1950, 12 percent more canned food was produced in the republic than.in
1949; this Increase was due largely to the production of the Khachmas Cannery
which serves the Kuba-Khachmas region, where more than half of the republic's
fruit is grown. In 1950, the Khacbmas Cannery produced 22,630,800 jars of
food.(7)
A mineral water bottling plant is being built near the Isti-su Thermal
Springs, on the right bank of the Terter-chay River in Kel'badz2harskiy Rayon.
The plant will be completed in 1952 with an annual capacity of million bot-
tles of mineral water.(8)
Kazakh SSR
Orchards, berry patches, and vineyards now occupy about 25,000 hectares
in the republic. During the past 10 years, land devoted to orchards and berry
patches in North-Kazakhstan Oblast has increased almost 100 times; at present,
it covers 3,024 hectares. Ten years agu the annual per-capita consumption of
fruits and berries in the republic was 15 kilograms. This figure will doable
by the end of 1951.(9)
SOURCES
1. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 15 Feb 51
2. Ibid., 14 Jan 51
3. Ibid., 22 Feb 51
4. Ibid., 7 Jan 51
5. Ibid., 14 Feb 51
6. Ibid., 13 Jan 51
7. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 11 Feb 51
8. Ibid., 10 Jan 51
9. Moscow, Moskovslciy Komsomolets, 25 Jan 51
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