SOME DATA ON USSR CROPS AND HARVESTS, AS OF DECEMBER 1951

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March 18, 1952
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Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050270-5 CLASSIFICATIO SECURITY N IDIAPORM TIOCONFIDEN11 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT INFORMATION FROM FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO. COUNTRY USSR DATE OF SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture INFORMATION 1951 HOW PUBLISHED Daily newspapers WHERE PUBLISHED USSR DATE PUBLISHED 2 - 30 Dec 1951 LANGUAGE Russian TMII o000.," oo1RYO1 uruYnu Nrtrnu "I M.N. uJIM." or 700 uuno tTMY ~nllq Tot mnu or Otio0M0 ACT O I. I. C.. $I Ito II. u quu0. m 01 I1? con." IA YI uuu IS YOIp0O\ 151 ~nwno~ O21nD or IS IIY0IM0lmo !?11011 ~I PSO n LII. 1MOOYrnou TIN roll O ro0NUmo. DATE DIST. // l;ar 1952 NO. OF PAGES 5 SUPPLEMENT TO REPORT NO. THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION SOME DATA ON USSR CROPS AND HARVESTS AS OF DECED ER 1951 Lumbers in parentheses rifer to appended sources] Karelo-Finnish SSR As of 20 December the fourth quarter 1951 plan for tractor repair was 39.5 percent fulfilled for the republic.(1) Estonian SSR The area sown to spring grains by kolkhozes of the republic in 1951 was 36 percent larger than in 1946.(2) As of 25 December 2,300 hectares of the 1951 flax crop had not yet been threshed, although pulling was completed some time ago.(3) In 1951 MSS of the republic fulfilled the plan for tractur work 103 per- cent. However, not one )IS fulfilled its production plan for all basic types of work.(4) Latvian SSR In 1951 the republic did not fulfill the state plan for grain ,fields.(5) As of 21 December the 1951 plan for procurement of flax products was 44.8 per- cent fulfilled for the republic.(6) Kolkhozes of the republic fulfilled the 1951 plan for sowing winter grains in the prescribed period, and considerably extended the area sown to these crops over that of 1950. However, processing and delivery of flax products to the state is proceeding in a very unsatisfac- tory manner.(7) As of 10 December the fourth quarter 1951 plan for tractor repair was 26 percent fulfilled for the republic.(8) - 1 - CLASSIFICATION CONFIDERTIAL NSRB DISTRIBUTION [A[ FBI Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050270-5 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050270-5 r Belorussia. The following table represents percent fulfillment of the fourth quarter 1951 plan for tractor repair by oblasts of the republic: Oblast Gomel' 16.7 Bobruysk 16.4 Mogilev 14.0 kinek 11.6 Vitebsk 11.3 Brest 10.2 Polotsk 8.4 Poles'ye 5.5 Pinsk 5.2 Grodno 4.2 Molodechno 3 8 Barenovichi 3.5 28.7 50.4 26.6 40.7 24.3 52.4 21.6 40.6 20.5 34.4 21.8 31.6 17.8 31.0 15.0 29.3 9.3 18.0 4.2 21.8 11.9 32.5 11.0 25.6 The following table represents percent fulfillment of the fourth quarter 1951 plan for the republic: e work 1 Dec (12 10 Dec 1 1 Dec (14 Tractor repair 28.6 Combine repair 40.9 41.9 37.1 47.2 48.3 Georgian SSE The collectivized livestock in kolkhozes, and livestock owned by collec- tive farmers in the republic annually provide over 2 million metric tons of organic fertilizer and up to 200,000 metric tons of dung water.(15) The average annual precipitation in Moscow Oblast is 400-600 millime- ters.(16) HIS of Moscow Oblast plowed 61,000 more hectares of zyab in kol- khozes in 1951 than in 1950. In 1951 winter wheat was sown to one third of the total area sown to winter crops in the Oblast. During the last 2 years (1950 and 1951), the area sown to winter wheat in the Oblast has increased al- most four times. The highest yielding variety of winter wheat sown in Moscow Oblast is hy- brid No 186. This variety has yielded up to 35.6 quintals per hectare on ex- perimental plots. It is strongly resistant to lodging, and has large grain. Under ideal conditions, the weight of 1,000 kernels reaches 50 grams, which means that each kernel is 25 percent heavier than standard varieties. The area sown to this variety in the Oblast in 1951 was nine times larger than last year. The second highest yielding variety of winter wheat sown in Moscow Oblast at present is wheat-quack hybrid No 599. This variety has given an average yield of 27.9 quintals per hectare on experimental plots. It does not lodge CnFFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050270-5 CONFIDENTIAL Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050270-5 eerily, does not shatter, is not subject to smut, and gives good quality bread grain. In 1951, in spite of unfavorable weather conditions, it gave a fairly good yield. Sovings of this variety of winter wheat were increased more than three times this year.(17) During the last 3 years (1949 - 1951), the suvn area in kolkhozes of the republic has increased 21.4 )ercent, including grains 1'.3 percent and cotton 1?> percent. The area sown to fodder crops by kolkhozeF more than doubled dur- ing this period. In 1952 the area sown to fodder crops will be extended to 1,315,000 hectares, artificial hayfields will be created on 200,000 hectares of nonirrigated plowable land and sandy pasture land, and river estuary irriga- tion will be carried out on 1,168,000 hectares of hayfields.(18) During the last 3 years (1949 - 1951), the total area planted to cotton in the republic increased 43.5 percent. In 1951 sorted seed was used on 81.3 per- cent of the area sown to grains. In 1952 the total amount of irrigated meadow and pasture land in the republic will be increas-, co 1,300,000 hectares. This area will supply 20 percent of the total fodder requirement for the republic. In 1951, 18 percent of the total sown area in the republic was irrigated.(19) The total sown area in the republic increased 28.2 percent during the Fourth Five-Tear plan, sod the goal for increasing the area sown to grains was exceeded by 443,500 hectares.(20) During the last 10 years, the volume of coarse fodder procured annually has increased 17 percent. This has not kept pace with the demands of animal husbandry in the republic.(21) The following table represents percent fulfillment of the 1951 cotton pro- curement plan by oblasts of the rephblic: Oblast 1 Dec 22 10 Dec 2 20 Dec (24) Kashka-Darya 115.36 Surkhan-Darya H 96.19 99.49 101.68 90 36 6 86 Andizhan . 8 .62 . 9 99.70 Fergana 9 85 54 95.16 99.25 Samrxkand 89.16 91.9 T 83?67 89.16 91.92 2 ashkent 81.24 88 61 Khore ;m K 81.17 . 85.93 94.66 90.00 ara-Kalpak ASSP B 72.41 77.66 81.60 ukhara 65.34 67.40 68.81 Turkmen SSE The following table represents percent fulfillment of the 1951 cotton pro- curement plan by oblasts of the republic: Oblast 1 Dec 2 10 Dec (26) 20 Dec (27) Ashkhabad M 107.98 111.47 114.73 ary h 94.43 100.93 107.17 C ardzhou 93.94 98.22 102.11 Tashauz 80.32 65.77 90.98 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050270-5 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP8O-00809AO00700050270-5 CONFIDENTIAL T"Zhik Eulfillment of the 1951 cotton-procurement plan for the republic asompag ayi wnghole was announced in a letter to Stalin published on 21 December. editorial stated that in 1951 the republic again had the highest average cotton Yield among cotton-growing republics in the USSR, and again came in second for gross production.(28) However, the latest published data on percent fulfillment of the 1951 cotton-procurement plan by cotton-growing rayons and sovkhozes of the republic indicate that as of 11 December, of 37 reporting cotton growing rayons, average -fulfillment was 67.1 percent, and of five reporting sovkhozes, average fulfillment was 74.8 percent.(29) As of 1 December the fourth quarter 1951 plan for tractor repair was ful- filled 18.5 percent for the republic as a whole; the plan for combine repair was fulfilled 9.3 percent.(30) The following table represents percent fulfillment of the 1951 cotton- procurer.Pnt plan by oblasts of the republic: Osh 84.59 89.33 94.96 Dzhalal-Abed 64.03 73.42 86.38 61.47 69.20 77.49 SOURCES 1. Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znaera, 25 Dec 51 2. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 19 Dec 51 3. Ibid., 28 Dec 51 4. Ibid., 21 Dec 51 5. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 28 Dec 51 6. Ibid., 22 Dec 51 7. Ibid., 20 Dec 51 8. Ibid., 13 Dec 51 9. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 4 Dec 51 10. Ibid., 13 Dec 51 11. Ibid., 23 Dec 51 12. Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 4 Dec 51 13. Ibid., 12 Dec 51 14. Ibid., 18 Dec 51 15. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 22 Dec 51 16. Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 28 Dec 51 17. Ibid., 15 Dec 51 18. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 13 Dec 51 19. Ibid., 16 Dec 51 20. Ibid., 19 Dec 51 21. Ibid., 21 Dec 51 22. Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 2 Dec 51 23. Ibid., 11 Dec 51 24. Ibid., 21 Dec 51 25. Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 2 Dec 51 26. Ibid., 11 Dec 51 27. Ibid., 21 Dec 51 28. Stalinabad, Kommuniat Tadzhikistana, 21 Duc 51 29. Ibid., 12 Dec 51 CONFIDENTIAL Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP8O-00809AO00700050270-5 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA- 30. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 8 Dec 51 31. Ibid., 2 Dec 51 32. Ibid., 11 Dec 51 33. Ibid., 30 Dec 51 -5- 2ONFIDENTIAL CONFI ENTIAL Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/09/23: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700050270-5