SOME DATE ON USSR CROPS AND HARVESTS, AS OF OCTOBER 1951

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CLASSIFICATION COWIDEIPPIAL UUN IVb IEM.
SECURITi IRF
TION I
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORTI
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
Daily, semiveek
l7 newspapers
PUBLISHED 2 - 31 Oct 1951
DATE
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHED
HOW
SUBJECT
COUNTRY USSR
LANGUAGE Russian
INFORMATION 1951
DATE DIST. If Mar 1952
NO. OF PAGES 7
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
Lumbers in Parentheses refer to appended sources]
Estonian SSR
Approximately 40 percent of all agricultural work performed in the repub-
lic in 1951 vas mechanized. (1)
Harvesting of potatoes in the republic is to be completed by 10 October,
and of sugar beets by 20 October. As of 1 October, Saunas Oblast had completed
the 1951 plan for delivery to the state of potatoes by only 2.6 percent.(2)
Belorussian SSR
The area planted to potatoes in the republic in 1951 was over 100,000 hec-
tares larger than prevar.(3) Spring grains were sown to 200,000 more hectares
this year than in 1950, and flax sown to 40,000 more hectares in 1951 than in
1950.(4) The 1951 plan for draining marshland in the republic was fulfilled
106.5 percent by mid-October. During 1951, 23,000 hectares of meadow and pas.
ture land were drained, grubbing and clearing of bushes and shrubbery was car-
ried out on an area of 91,000 hectares of meadow and pasture land, ane 43,900
hectares of plowland was cleared of stones.(5)
The
the following Pervoye Maya Solkhoz, Oshmanekiy Rayon, Molodechno Oblast, obtained
yields in recent years: (5)
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Biological Crop:
All Grains
quintals per ha)
1944
1945
6.3
1946
10.0
1947
10.C
Bio o ca Cron
(quintals per ha)
Crop
22 1
Rye
4.4 12.0
Wheat
4.4 10.0
Barley
6.1 13.0
The following table shoes percentage fulfillment of the 1951 plan for po-
tato digging by oblasts of the republic:
Oblast
1 Oct
6)
10 Oct (7)
20 Oct
Gomel'
25.8
52.2
86.9
Mogilev
23.7
54.2
88.4
Poles 'ye
27.7
50.0
78.9
Grcdno
7.4
28.3
72.3
Bobruysk
33.4
62.o
88.2
Minsk
25.1
57.4
86.9
Brest
15.2
35.3
68.o
Vitebsk
18.5
50.8
87.3
Polotsk
25.3
60.7
89.4
Molodechno
13.6
42.4
83.2
Pinsk
22.3
52.6
87.0
Baranovichi
10.2
26.3
68.1
The following table shove percentage fulfillment of the 1951 plan for flax
threshing by oblests of the republic:
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Oblast
1 Oct
(6)
10 Oct
20 Oct (5)
Goael'
98.5
99.5
100.0
Mogilev
98.2
99.4
100.0
Poles'ye
98.8
100.0
100.0
Grodno
94.8
96.4
96.9
Bobruysk
99.5
99.9
99.9
Minsk
89.9
93.6
97.9
Brest
81.5
88.2
93.2
Vitebsk
84.3
91.6
93.6
Polotsk
75.0
86.7
93.6
Molodechno
83.8
89.7
98.5
Pinsk
93.4
96.3
99.0
h..ranovichi
82.8
86.8
88.6
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1951 plan for plow-
ing of syeb J plowed in the fall for saving the following spring7 by oblasts
of the republic:
Oblast
1 Oct (6)
10 Oct
Gomel'
13.2
21.8
Mogilev
20.9
29.9
Poles lye
13.8
22.5
Grodno
13.4
21.4
Bobruysk
23.1
35.8
Minsk
16.5
23.2
Brest
11.7
18.0
Vitebsk
11.2
19.9
Polotsk
11.1
20.7
Molodechno
13.5
17.7
Pinsk
21.1
29.1
Baranovichi
14.8
19.8
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khoz 'rho following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1951 plan in kol-
the republic:
UkraUkra~
UM.Ef_ Work
0 8e 8)
10 Oct )
15 Oct
11)
2
Oct l2
Reaping grains
92.3
94.0
94.9
--
Harvesting Mize
31.0
50.2
59.4
74.4
Threshing grains
91.7
93.7
94.2
--
Harvesting sugar beets
38.8
59.1
73.1
96.8
Plowing zyab
32.4
46.8
54.4
72.0
Sowing winter crops
94.0
98.7
99.8
--
Procurement of coarse fodder
(in terms of hay)
70
6
4
(10)
.
7
,E
75.7
Silage stored
8
54
60
6
(10)
.
.
63.3
loldavian SSR
Percentage fulfillment of the 1951 cotton-
lic by various dates was ae follows. Procurement plan for the repub
ber, 67,00 ercent (14); 20 October 1 October, 45,70 percent (13); 15 Octo-
percent (16). , 71.06 percent (15); and 25 October, 73.92
khoz Thef o~ngbtable shows percentage fulfillment of the 1951 plan in kol-
Type of Work , 0 Se 1
Oct 18 1ULtL121 20 Oct 20 2 Oct(21)
Harvesting sugar beets
30.3
42.0
74.0
86.9
Plowing zyab
40.3
43.5
53.3
59.0
Plowing black fallow
--
19.2
24.1
25.5
Swing winter crops
77.6
83.7
96.3
--
Armenian 60
As of 1 October, the 1951 cotton-procurement plan had been fulfilled 30
percent for the republic as a whole (22); as of 30 October, this figure was
53.59 percent.(23)
Sugar-beet-growing kolkhozes of the republic should have harvested 50 to
60 percent of the 1951 crop by mid-October; actually, they had harvested only
9.4 percent.(24)
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On 15 October, kolkhozes of the republic had completed the 1951 plan for
loving winter crops by 56.8 percent.(25)
As of 25 October, kolkhozes of the republic had completed the 1951 thresh-
ing Plan by 98 percent, and the 1951 plan for plowing zyab 17.3 percent.(26)
Azerbn zh~
As of 1 October, th. republic had fulfilled the 1951 cotton-procurement
Plan by 45 percent, whereas on 1 October 1950 the figure was 60 percent. (27)
Oroznyy Oblast sowed twice the area to cotton in 1951 that it did in 1950.
However, the crop has not been well cared for, and harvest prospects are
poor.(28)
for of 1 October, kolkhozes of Leningrad Oblast had fulfilled the 1951 plan
fo.6 aging potatoes 30 percent. (29) As of 5 October, the plan was fulfilled
percent, and kolkhozes dug potatoes on an area of 5,082 hectares between 1
and 5 October.(30) Thus, 5,082 hectares represent 18.6 percent of the area
planted to potatoes in kolkhozes of Leningrad Oblast in 1951, and the total area
Planted to potatoes by kolkhozes of this Oblast in 1951 should be 27,323 hec-
tares)
As of 1 October, kolkhozea of Leningrad Oblast had fulfilled the 1951 plan
for plowing zyab by 27.4 percent.(29) As of 5 October, the plan was 32.7 per-
cent fulfilled, and kolkhozes plowed 6,313 hectares of zyab between 1 and 5 Oc-
tober.(30) jhus, 6,313 hectares represent 5.3 percent of the area allocated
for zyab in kolkhozes of Leningrad Oblast in 1951, and the total area allocated
for zyab in kolkhozes of this Oblast in 1951 should be 119,113 hectares
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1951 plan in kol-
kiress of Leningrad Oblast:
Pype of Work
1Oct (29)
10 O
ct 1
e0 Oct (32)
Digging potatoes
30.0
71.6
--
Harvesting vegetables
33.0
61.4
84.5
Plowing zyab
27.4
39.6
53.8
Kazakh SSE
The area sown to spring wheat in North Kazakhstan Oblast in 1951 was 66 a
percent larger than in 19,50. The area sown to winter crops in the Oblast in 1951
was more than three times that of prewar. (33)
Uzbek SSR
In September 1951, the cotton-ginning industry of the republic fulfilled
the month plan by 7:;.3 percent.(34)
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The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1951 cotton-pro..
cerement plan by oblasts and the ASSR of the republic:
Oblasi:s and A88R
1 Oct
5)
10 Oct (36)
20 Oct
0 Oct g
Kashka-Darya
44.84
62.91
73.32
98.22
Fergana
34.63
48.47
56.51
70.13
Andizban
33.49
49.86
58.18
73.11
Bukhara
32.34
41.46
46.96
55.53
Khorezm
32.04
43.20
50.55
61.31
Surkhan-lya
31.55
45.52
57.21
72.54
Aaasangan
28.91
43.67
52.16
68.44
Samarkand
23.91
34.70
42.86
58.28
Kara-Kalpak ASSR
20.47
29.28
35.53
46.33
Tashkent
18.41
25.43
32.45
52.74
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1951 cotton-pro-
curement plan by oblasts of the republic:
Oblast
Ashkhabad
Cherdzhou
Mary
Tashauz
1 Oct (39)
11 Oct 40
20 Oct 41
30 Oct 42
45.28
63.44
75.53
87.26
37.54
51.83
61.02
71,22
25.19
40.61
51.27
60.56
24.51
36.90
43.96
53.39
Tadzhik SSR
As of 10 October, the 1951 plan for procurement of vegetables had been ful-
filled slightly over 50 percent for the republic as a whole.(43)
Kirgiz SSR
As of 15 October, the 1951 plan for saving winter crops was fulfilled ap-
prozinately 50 percent for the republic as a whole, and the plan for plowing
zyab less than 20 percent.(44)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1951 cotton-pro-
curement plan by oblasts of the republic:
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Oblast
1 Oct (45)
10 P
20 Oct 47
Frunze
26.69
34.64
36.91
DzbaLl-Abed
16.70
28.66
34,96
12.19
24.32
30.50
1. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 17 Oct 51
2. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 2 Oct 51
3. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 19 Oct 51
4. Riga, Sovetskaya Iatviya, 23 Oct 51
5. Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 23 Oct 51
6. Ibid., 4 Oct 51
7. Ibid., 13 Oct 51
B. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 3 Oct 51
9. Ibid., 13 Oct 51
10. Ibid., 14 Oct 51
11. Ibid., 18 Oct 51
12. Ibid., 28 Oct 51
13. Ushinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 4 Oct 51
14. Ibid., 19 Oct 51
15. Ibid., 21 Oct 51
16. Ibid., 26 Oct 51
17. Ibid., 2 Oct 51
18. Ibid., 7 Oct 51
19. Ibid., 12 Oct 51
20. Ibid., 23 Oct 51
21. Ibid., 27 Oct 51
22. Terevan, Kommuniet, 2 Oct 51
23. Ibid., 31 Oct 51
24. Ibid., 19 Oct 51
25. Ibid., 18 Oct 51
26. Ibid., 28 Oct 51
27. Moscow, Sovetskoye Khlopkovodstvo, 6 Oct 51
28. Ibid., 24 Oct 51
29. Ieningradekaya Pravda, 2 Oct 51
30. Ibid., 7 Oct 51
31. Ibid., 12 Oct 51
32. Ibid., 23 Oct 51
33. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstsnskaya Pravda, 19 Oct 51
34. Sovetskaye Khlopkovodstvo, 27 Oct 51
35. Tasbkent, Pravda Vostoka, 2 Oct 51
36. Ibid., 11 Oct 51
37. Ibid., 21 Oct 51
38. Ibid., 31 Oct 51
39. Ashkbobad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 2 Oct 51
40. Ibid., 12 Oct 51
41. Ibid., 21 Oct 51
42. Ibid., 31 Oct 51
43. Stalinabad, Kommuniet Tadzhikistan, 19 Oct 51
44. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 16 Oct 51
45. Ibid., 2 Oct 51
46. Ibid., 11 Oct 51
47. Ibid., 21 Oct 51
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