RAISING THE LEVEL OF SOVIET GRAIN INDUSTRY

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SUBJcCT Economic -Agriculture grain production,
Fourth Five-%ar Plan
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(train Industry , Mosco~ Gospianizdat, 1947.
RAISING TRS LEVEL OF SOVIET GRAM INDUSTRY
T. Koval'
Hefore the Revolution there were 367.2 million hectares of sgricuJ.tural
land in Ruseis. Of that total the peasantry woraed only 214,7 million hectares,
of;1ltich more than 80 million hectares were owned by 1~Aats. Estate owners,
monasterie0, and membars?of the Tsar's family owned 152.5 million hectares.
Some 28,000 large estate owners together owned as mach land as did 10 million
peasants. Millions of small farms :onsisted of not more than one or two
deeystinas each.
After the Civil War, agriculture as a whole was at a very low level. In
g~2c, the sown area under grain crops consisted of only 78.6 million hectares,
ompared with '4.4 million hectares in 1913. At the beginning of the recon-
struction period the production of wheat had decreased by,62 Dercent as com-
pared with the prewar period, that of barley by 64 percent and Date by 52
percent. The number at draft animals had decreased by 35 Percent. At the end.
of the reconstruction period, grain yields had reached prewar levels -_ 7,5
quintals per hectare. By 1928, the gross output of grain had reached the pre-
war level -- 5 billion pud.
However, Production bf comma'rcisl grain increased slowly. This consti-
tuted aserious obstacle to the ftu-then growtg of industry, cities, and the
production of industrial crops, ?As n result ox the lag in production in rela-
tion to the growth is the demand for grain, bread shortages developed.
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IIp to porid par I Russia had 15 to 16 million individual peasant farms.
At the end of the roconstrnction period them wero 24 to 25 million. The
.basic agricultural unit during that period vas the ssall peasant farm which
produced a minimm of commercial grain. However, the?nevly crested sovkhozee
and,kolkhozes began producing co~ercinl grain crops to the extent of 47.2
eizeepeneanthisrms prod eed ccommercial grninthamountin8 to~nly~. ~~~-
of their total production.
Commercial groin productic+n in 1927- 1928 ranched 630 million pud?ne
against 1,300,600,000 pud beforo?porld War I. In addition, sown aroas sad
yields of groin crops oa the whole reached prewar levels is 1927. The gross
grain harvest on the eve of the Oront Patiy,otir par reached 7 billion pud,
and commercial grain production in ~40?vns almost tvica as large as is 1913?
Together with the ineresae in grain production, there van a coneidbrnb].a 'n-
cronse in livestock production in eovkhozes and kolkhozes. In ~ieineae ith
the lacrosse in grain production and the sprond of grass soxing,
eery fodder base for the development of the livestock industry vas established.
Agriculture in areas occupied by the Oermea4 during 1941 - 194j sustained
particularly heavy losses. All this resulted in a decrease in soya areas, a
lowered level of agricultural techniques and mechsnizstion, ands rodmtioa in
the productivity and yield of agricultural production. Since the vas, collec-
tive farmers have been successfully roconstructing agriculture. The serious
drought of 1946 notwithstanding -- a drought which in its scope and effect
surpassed the widespread drought of 1921 and which spread over s considerable
tioniof commercial grniaein1946 etompered favorably vithsl9~ast and prodnc-
Soon Arens '
Based on data for 1 ltny 1937 the over-all quantity of agricultural land,
ae compared with 1913, increased to 421.9 million hectares, of which 370.8 ail-
lion hectares vero' assigned to 8 lkhezQ~nade51.51e~iil~tii~ralhearea~pesr ko]sk~?ho:
khoses. At the beginning of 193 , _rng ?~
was 1,52y hectares (not ~cofd20 he~taroe of ulnndiper peesan~t hzousehold.~-
rary basis), or an aiarag
The ertent ead~compoeition of soon mass in the IIBSR compared to 1913 esa
be seen in Table 1:
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Table 1. Sise and Coeposition of 8osn press by Basic Crop Oroupa
(ia stallions of hectares and in '~i)
I'erceat
100.0
78.3
9.3
8938
Millions
of
Hectares Percent
136.9 100.0
102. ~- 74.7
11.0 8.0
Millions
oY
Hectares
Percent
Millions
of
Hectntes
P
Millions
of
ercent
Hectares
Totsl soon area
105.0
100.0
112.9
loo,o
129.7
Orsin craps
94.4
89.8
02.2
81.5
101.5
Iadustrial crops
4.5
4.3
8.6
7,6
12.0
Vegetables, cncurbits,
potatoes
3.8
2.6
7.7
6.7
8.6
Fodder crops
2.1
1.9
3.9
3.4
7.3
Pereanisl grasses
1.4
1.3
,,2.2
. ..
2.0
2.6
6.6
5.6
2.0
9.4 6.8
14.1 10.2
7.1 5.2
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It can be seen from Table 2 that compered to 1913, the soya area in 1940
increnaed vith.regnrd to ail crops, and in particular with regard. to Tinter
xheaL, industrial crops, vegetables; cucurbits, potatoes, sad fodder. ~?
shift in the composition of sown areas tovard a heavies
vegetable, cucurbits, and especially fodder c eaphasis on industrial,
tioae for crop rotation and the over-ate rope crested the necessary coadi-
impirovemeat of egriculturdl practices.
The following program for increasing the soon areas and developing the agrar-
ian econasp?? of our:}~in9ry has bsbn, established ?by. the`?
n?:. ?. .8~t~"lireLYaar 81aa:
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Hsaed on the Fourth Five-Year Plan the swn area x111 be increased by 8.2
million hectares, as compared with 1940. A alight decrease is the soya area
of grain trope in 1950, as sgsfast 1940, is e~cplained by the necessity for tae
introduction of correct crop rotation, leaving considerable areas of the grain
regsone under black or clean faLlw -- this being an effective means of clean-
ing t:.e fields of weeds -- thus achieving further increases in yield of grains
and other crops. The postwar Five-Sear Plan envisages a sizeable increase is
the sown area of fodder crops and especially of perennial grasses. At the end
of the 5-year period the total wren sown to fodder crops will increase to 28.4
million hectares, compared to 18.1 million }ectaree in 1940. The share of the
total area sown to fodder crops x111 increase from 12 percent is 1940 to 17.9
percent in 1950. The perennial grass areas x111 increase from 10.9 million
hectares in 1940 to 21.4 million hectares at the end of the 5-year period.
Their share of the over-ell area will increase to 13.5 percent as against 7.2
percent in 1940.
The Counci_ of Ministers USSR in its resolution of 26 December 1946, laid
down a concrete program for the continued development of the grain indtu~try in
the Beet. Based on this resolution, 1n 1947 to 1949 swn arena oa kolkhozea
and grain eovkhozes moat be increnv?d by 8 mill~^a hectares over 1946, df which
grain crops will be increased by 6., million hectares and spring wheat by 5.5
million hectares. This applies to the following areas: the northern regions
of Kazakh SSR, Bashkir ASSR, Altay and Krasnoyarsk kraye, and Kemerovo, i(ovo-
sibirsk, Omsk, Tomsk, Tyumen, Kurgana~ Chelyabinsk, sad Chkalov oblaste.
Tha February 1947 plenary session of the TsK VSP(b) stressed the aecee-
sity for the fulfillment of the goal established by the Pive-Sear Plan: a
gross grain harvest of 127 million tons in 1950.
The resolutions of the plenary session present a detailed program based
oa the lax of the Five-Year Plan for the rapid rehabilitation and further de-
velopment of the grain industry. The resolutions state: "The prewar level
o' the grain industry must be reached in the nert 3 years -- 1947, 1948, and
1949 -- and moat be considerably surpassed at the end of the Five-Year'Plan."
The plenary session points to the necessity for increasing wheat production as
a basic food crop. The plenary session hsa earmarked the following regions
in which, during 1949, the prewar level of winter wheat production and its
yield .cunt be sign.ficantly increased: Ukrai San SSR, Krasnodar and Stavropol'
krays, Rostov, Crimea, Voronezh, and Kursk oblasts, and Moldavian ~. Ia
the remaining winter wheat regions, an increase in yield and gross harvest
moat also be achieved, especially in the lover Volga regions, IIzbek and Tadzhik
SSR, the southern oblasts of Kazakh SSR and in Kirgiz and Azerbaydzhan SSR.
The plenary session has suggested that sown areas of spring wheat be in-
creased by 1,824,000 hectares is kolkhozes of the eastern regions (Siberia,
the Urals, and the northeastern oblasts of the Kazakh SSR), to bring the total
in ].947 to 7.9 million hectares, in 1948 to 9.4 million hectares, and in 1949
to 11.4 million hectares.
~ In the lower Volga regions (Kuybyshev, 3aratov, Stalingrad, and II1'yanov
obleats) measures must be taken to expand awn areas of spring wheat, espe?ially
the hard wheat varieties, also utilizing formerly unused lands for that g. ,gee.
The awing of spring wheat on kolkhozes of these oblasts must be increased by
300,000 hectares and must reach 2.4 million hectares in 1947 and 3 million hec-
tares in 1948.
Oa kolkhozes of the chernozem belt, the sowing of spring xheat must be ia-
creased by 200,0.00 hectares and must reach 1.6 million hectares is 1947 and
1.8 million hectares in 1948.
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The plenary session discussed the serious lag in production of spring
xheat in '?.e Ukrainian SSR, The resolution goeu on to any: "It Sa inadmie-
sib~e that a food crop ae valuable as spring wheat is being given less nod
lees attention every year in ko]khozes and eovkhozee of the Ukrainian SSR, and
that Yertile black soil is being used for less valuable fodder crops..Partic-
nlarly barley."
The plenary session decided to increase the sown area of spring wheat on
kolkhozes of the Ukraine, for 1947 ne compared with 1946, by 1$2,000 hectares
a total of 750,000 hectares, and to insure the further ex..aasion of spring
wheat loving for future years, The resolution also stresses the importance of
taking steps to increase production of winter rye in regions ether than the
cheraozem belt, is the central chernozem oblsato, +,~ norEhern oblasts of the
Ui?~eine, on the right bank of the Volga, sad is other regions of the country,
The February plenary Session of the TsK VKP(t) particularly stressed the
unsatisfactory situation with regard to the production of pulses, primarily
in such oblesta as Penza, Stalingrad, U1'yanov, Ryazan', as veil as in the
Tatar, Beehkir, and Mordva ASSR and Ukrainina 3SR, sad suggests that the sown
area of Pulses in kolkhozea be?increased ay 300,000 hectares sad be raised to
1.3 million hectares?in 1947 sad to 1.6 million hectares is 1948. At the
same time, a considerable increase ie suggested is t'ie yield of pulses xith
special attention to increased soxinge tf peas, particularly in the central and
easLera regions of the Soviet Union. An increase is also planned in the eoxn
areas and yield of beans and lentils, particularly table lentils In the central
chernozem oblasts, in the lover Volga regions, and the xooded areae?of U1a'ain-
inn SSR.
Considering the great signiricance of maize u as iadnetrial aid food crop u
x~J]. ae ~.~~~OITiili~ji ~:~ ?h~ and stable yields, the pleaaiy session pa'o-
in 1947 andrtosbring theatotal to 28260,000 hecetarea,anod in289jj$~Loh2et~a~
hectares, aR veil as to increase considerably the yield of maize. To fulfill
successfully such an ambitious plan for the increase of maize production is
coming years, mechsaization of sowing and harvesting of maize must be intensi-
f?.ed, To raise the yield of maize, it ie necessary iII th^ nezt fav years to
sow considerable amotwts of hybrid aeeds,for which purpose the Ministry of
Agriculture and the Ministry of State Farms must organt.ze the production of
hybrid maize seeds on seed-producing eovkhozes and kolkhozee.
Comrade Andreyev, in his report to the plenary session, pointed to certain
conservative elements among some agricultural organs, xhich have hindered the
growth of the maize industry in new regions. Maize is assumed to be an ezclu-
eively southern crop; hc.'aver, it has been proven that it can be grown in
areas considerably north of the lover Volga area, in the central cheraozem
region, and evtn in the southern 3lberian steppes.
The resolutions of the plenary session envisage a considerable ezpansion
is soxn areas and an increase in the gross harvest of the more important food
crops. Ko1k-~zes are to increase the soxn area of buclnrheat by 420,000 hectares
to reach 1.5 million hectares in 194',', sad 1.7 million hectares is 1948. This
expansion in soon area of buclnrheat, plus emphasis on raising its yield, npp.,~s
primrily to Kursk, Orlov, Bryansk, and Tula oblesta, and Tate ASSR, vh?ch previ-
ously played nn important part in buckwheat production, but xhich in recent
years had considerably reduced that production.
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Millet is another important f.?d crop. Tn the USSR, millet groxe under
the moat varied .climatic conditions, and under Rood teehaical msthpds,
gives a higher and acre stable yield than other grain crops, Moat
millet is produced in the southern and eouthenstern regions. The plenary ses-
sion intructed the Ministry of Agriculture and tbo Ministry of State Farms to
guarantee an average millet yield of 15 quintals per hectare on ]colkhozea and
sovkhozes oa an area of 1 million hectares is 1947. The plenary session also
envisaged an increase in the soon area of rice on 1col.khozes of 15,000 hectares,
raising it to a total of 150,000 hectares in 1947 and 160,000 hectares in 1948.
Orain Harvest and Yields
Data :.idicating increase in eoxn area are not sufficient to permit judg-
ment of the development of agriculture.
During the First Five-Year Plan the gross outgut of grata crops underwent
considerable changes, and the love et level of production of grata xae reached
in the years 1931 - 1932? In 1933, a sizable increase in groin production xas
seteo? That year produced as increase is the gross production of grain crops
mpnred with 1932 by 199.3 million quintals, and 97 million quintals ears
than in 1913. In 1933, fundamental changes in the commercinl,graia ecoaoaq took
place in the sources of delivery of industrial grains to the state. ULile in
1929 - 1930 individual farms supplied the government nearly 780 million pud,
nad ko]]chozes not more than 120 million pud of grains, during the folloxing
period kolkhozee and individual farms traded places: in 1933, kolkhozes sup-
plied the government xith more than one billion pud of groin, xhereas individ-
ual farms, even xith 100 percant'fuifillment of the plan, delivered only 130
farmsointo large cone tivefitarma,~thecUSSR xae ab~lellin 933atoeprocese nitotal
of 1.2 to 1.4 billion pud of grain instead of the 500 to 600 million pud of
industrial grains xhich ?-ere being processed during the period of individual
farms.
During succeeding Five-Year Plans the gross output of grain crops contla-
ned' to increase. During the Second Five-Year Plaaf despite s drought in the
eastern and southeaetexa region of tue USSR in 1936 and 1934, the average annual
gross production of grain crops increased to.955 million quintals, or by 19.2-
perce~t ae compared to 1913, and by 186.2 million quintals or 24.2 percent coal-
pared to the average annual yield during tbs First Five -Year Plan.
Ths moat important ob,~ective of the postxar FLve_ye~. p~ ~ the develop-
ment of the grain economy is to increase grain production in 1950 to 127 mil-
lion tone, sad the yield of grain crops is expected to reach le quintals per
hectare.
The drought of 1946 in a number of the most important agricultural regions
proved that the establishment of a system of measures by means of xhich disa~-
ters can be predicted is one of the objectives facing Soviet agriculturt xhich
cannot be postponed. The drought of 1946 xas the most disastrous one in tho
last 5p years. both is scope sad in the number of days xithout rainfall. In
the Sumenasya steppe (Voronezh Oblast) the 1946 drought exceeded the droughts of
1891, 1897, and 1921 in intensity and duration. During May and June 1946, the
average rainfall xas half that of the years 1891 and 1921.
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Table 4. Yield of Grain Cn 3e
(affiusl average is quintals per nectars)
Rust
Five-Year Plan
Second
Five-sear Plan
Growth
-
All grain crops
7.5
9.1
~j
121.3
hinter wheat
8.6
10.9
126,7
Spring wheat
6.1
8.0
131,1
Witter rye
8.2
9.6
u7?o
oats
8.2
9.9
120.7
Spring barley
8.2
10.0
121.9
It le a known fact that when the same type of crops are eoxa repeatedly,
certain elements of the soil are depleted. For example, in.the case of rye,
there is a depletion of phosphoric acid; in the case of potatoes, potassium
oxide, etc. Depletion of nitrogen in the soil ie particularly disastsrous.
That is why the moat important crops used in crops rotation are nitrogen-.
gathering pleats of the leguminous variety, particularly clover (tor the north
and ctntral belt), alfalfa, and eepareette (for the southern regions).
In view of the exceptional importance of crop rotation to increased yields'
the February 1947 plenary session of the TeIC Y!d?(D) made it incumbent upon all
Party and Soviet organs, the Ministry of Agriculture, sad the Ministry of State
Farms to complete, in the course of the postwar Five-Year Plan, the introduction
of proper crop rotation methods. Such methods include the sowing of grass end
vide utilization at leguminous and cereal perennial grasses.
The decisions of the plenary eeseioa stipulated that in the steppe
areas of the USSR, crop rotation will de introduced utilizing grass Boxing and
black tallow lead. In areas of sufficient rainfall, and especially in the non-
chernozem belt, it is necessary to resort to cropped fallow for the purpose of
more complete utilization of the land. In the regions of Siberia, the Urala,
sad the northeast ob~..ets of the Kazakh SSR, utilization of virgin lands must
be effected by sowing spring wheat, and in the steppe regions all clean fallow
areas must be utilized.
The February plenary eeseioa, is accordance with the ob~ectiivea of the
postwar Five-Year Plan, decided to increase the cutting area of perennial greases
in 1948 to the prewar level to bring it up to a total of 21.4 million hectares,
including 15.3, million hectares is kolkhozes by 1950.
The tasks assigned by the Council of Ministers USSR xith~regard to agri-
culture in 1947 envisage an increase of sown areas by 10 million hectares, of
xhich kolkhozes will account for 8.7 million hectares. Simultaneously with
this considerable exp:sneioa of soya areas, the average yield increase of grain
crops for the xhole territory of the USSR xas set at 26 percent. The amount
of tractor wrk by LIPS vas set at 165 million hectares which considerably exceeds
the volume of tractor work carried out is 1946.
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The Go~nlaa IISSR bulletin of 8 July 1947, "Fulfillment Totals of the State
Plan for Reconstruction end Development of the National Economy of the IISSR for
the Second Quarter 1947," states that the plan for the summer sowing of grain
crops has been 11i7.filled. As compared with 1946, the increased soon area of
the 1947 '~arvest for all a~iculturnl crops will be nearly a million hectares.
1echanization of Grain Industry
Mechanization of agriculture ranched particularly high proportions during
the Second Five-Year Plan. The agricultural tractor fleet of the D38R ia-
creased to 483,500 is 1938 as against 34,900 in 1929, and its capacity in-
creased to 9,256,200 horsepower as against 391,400 horsepower in 1929.
The fleet of agricultural comuiaes increased from 8,700 in 1930?to 153,5
in 1938, s 17-fold increase. The number of trucks used is agriculture increased
from 2,300 in 1930 to 195,800 in 1938. The number of MTS increased from 2,900
in 1934 to 6,350 in 1938?
During the postwar Five-Year Plan?4.5 billion rubles (based on unchanged
1926 - 1927 prices) will be made available for agricultural machinery sa
against 1.9 billion rubles during the Second Five-Year Plan, xhich was the
period xhen the highest level of tractor and agricultural machinery production
vne reached.
From the Goaplan OSSR bu77-::in, "Fulfillment Totals of the State Plan for
Reconstruction and Developmea~ of the National Economy of the USSR Sor the
Second quarter 1947," it may 'be seen that the prod~?ction plea for the.aecond
quarter of 194:7 has been fulfilled 99.7 percent by the Ministry of Agricultural
Machine Building.
An even more ambitious program for the production of tractors and agricul-
tural machinery is planned for 1948. Of a total tractor production for 1948
of 75,5, agriculture will be assigned 67,000 tractors as yell sa 80,000
tractor glows, 25,000 combines, 62,000 horse-drawn reaping machines, 114,000
horse-drawn mowing machines, 90,000 rakes, etc.
In e.:.ition, a considerable increase is planned in the production of
spare parts for tractors and agricultural machinery, especially those parts
which are very scarce. The February plenary session eatabiished a new system
for equipping new tractors and combines with spare parts, Each new tractor,
and combing must be equipped by the producing ;lent with a complete kit of
spare-parts, tools, and maintenance instructions.
,
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agricultural machinery.
In accordance with the objectives of the postwar Five-Year Plan, the pre-
war mechanize+.io~a level of agric~Atura] work must be fii17y reestablished during
the ttezt few years so that ":y 1950 the mechenizatior level, in terms of summer
and vin+.er sowing, will'reach not lees than 70 percent (as against 59 percent
in 1940); harvesting grain crops with combines, 55 percent (ae against 43 per
teat in 19~ ;plowing fallow land, 90 percent (as against 82 percent is 1940);
and plovinE ;inter fallow land, 90 percent (as against 71 percent in 1940).
The decisions of the plenary session stipulate that in 1947 the Minis~ry?
of Agricultural Machine Building must provide agriculture vith'3C,300 tractors
as yell as with 510 million rubles worth of other agricultural machinery.
Simultaneously, in 1947 the Ministry of Transportation Machine?Building moat
insure delivery to agricu'l:.ure of 3,800 G 80 caterpillar tractors, while a
number of other ministries moat insure delivery of 36
750
000 rubles north bt
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For every tea tractors and combines produced, the plant must.supply a spara-
parte kit for currsnt repeire. For every 50 tractors and comoiunu proauced~
the plaat~must provide n complete set of spare parts for mayor overhauls.
Soviet engineers have recently completed the self-propelled Soviet 8-4
combine. The self-p~ropslled S-4 combine is equipped wit.. tires and xeigha a
total of 3,400 kilograms m against the 5,3~-kilogram Stalinets combine and
the 4,300:kilogram Sommunar caeibine.~ The steering of the S-4 combine is
greatly simplified. The productivity per hour of the 8-4 is 2.1 hectares which
ie 1~ times the productlvity of the Kommunar,combine.
The government deci-lons of 28 December 1946 also provide for the pro-
ductioa;of the Stalinets-6 trailer combine, xhich is a cosbiantion of the
uth].inetis-1 thresher and the header of the liommunar combine. This hook-up
makes it }iossible to combine the high capacity of the thresher and the vide
range of the header. The Stslinets-6 trailer combine ie efficient in harveet-
ing high-yield grains and reduces the grain loan in the thresher by three to
four times u compared to the Kommunnr combine. ?
The plenary aeseion stressed in particular that the production plans of
DII'3 and tractor brigades are considered fulfilled only if all conditions of
the trsetor work plane are ful~illed in their beak cosq?aents: spring plox-
ing, preparation of the land for eoering, spring sowing, utilization of fallow
land, cultivation of crops, harvesting, xinter sowing, plowing of fallow land,
all within assigned time limits and xithia the plan for payment in kind. This
decision of the plenary session put an end to the eziating practice of evaiu-
ating the work of PQ3 only in accordance with the fulfillment of the plan for
soft-tillage tractor work, which reaulte? in part of the !fl'8 trying to fulfill
the plan of tractor xork at 'the expense of all manner of light operations --
such es harrowing etc.
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