ACHIEVEMENTS AND SHORTCOMINGS IN CHINESE AGRICULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700080209-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 9, 2011
• Sequence Number: 209
• Publication Date: August 29, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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THIS IS UNEVALUATED lNFORA7ATION
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During late 1951 and ear]y 1952, 23,397,000 cattiee of rice
and 19.9 bi113on yuan in cash Lava beet released by the govern-
ment for tTua aid of the Peasants in t~_ old Co~tnnist Dunes in
t}:s Aing-tu Kiazgai, Special Adminimtrative District Slane. .he
Zr+.in ~' "-aahk~r~ .~L'_c'.`t?:'or direct fe~ine rsrlief, social se:wi.ce,
s~ci ayZuiparoat and Yertilizer f?~r a. :.avigq received this ganerona
aid, the peasants are in keen r~petitica to increase agricultural
produetion in 3952= An over-~ Prodnetion increase of ?_}?~ gM
million to one biJ.lion cattiea of foodstuffs is pianDe3 for tae
yeer. Iautuel aid teams have enro;led 133,766 r~bars in the area.
Gh?u cadres in Chien-2?.uo Hsien, IIopeh, eab3ectively set 195'
agricultural production increase goals of 37.1 percent over 1951.
However, they failed to give the people env opportunity to disensa
iho 8o+rls and the result is great conftasion and lee's ~f.enthnsiasn
on the part of the sasses.
RSLIbF lFttAI113 AID Fd,RgFRg IA OLD C(&JOlAL4T HA.6ffi -- ^aakar, Ch?ang-rhiaag Jih-
~, 9 Jun j2
natter ane Sc>rn funds and supplies released by the goverroaent to peasants
in t.~.e old Cos>munist bases of >Qing-tn 8gecial Administrative District in blaogei
in 1~1-52 Pave been of groat aid to then in their offorta to restore and in-
crease agricultural praduetion in the area, Dnriu~y 1951, 10,f3b0,000 cattiee
of rice and 4,160,000,000 yeas 1n cash relief were issued in the area, as veil
~ x,050,000,000 yuan.aad 6,697,000 cattiss of rice in social servlre funds,
During the period of~sprinQ scarcity in 1952, 5,86p,000 rattier of rice anfl
u,737,t300,00o yuan in lawns for implmente, irrigation, and animals sere
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 969 DWlov~?thenlya~nv~ ~~rn^ra in Htiag-hko Hsiea bought 493 head of xox?k cattle,
liter. Zrr?gntlon repaira~haveot~en SL d~~inn1~078 ple~eo~Thetfarcera cretin
keen cc~p2t!vion 4A inrrease production throughout the 2,9C0,000 taou of culti-
v;:ted land of the Special Adminiatratlve Liatrict, c_.e..-_.__ .
t1:-~o t:i~.'+%ugn and IOtir harrows 0 is i"-' ???ty ~uv sOiJ. ~Dy
from 30 to 80 plc :lc of fertili~r quite coamon in .1852. In Jul-shin &sien,
~.r mon ere beia; epplled to the coil.
the 'arjera arc all busily eugaged'in anliPlood, antldrou2ht, anti-ins=ct,
a~rl ::aiiaci;clty prod-ru,>a: The gretitaat threat Sn the sattdy soli oY S71ng-tu
Spa^-=s1 Anxiniatrativc Diatrtet in dretght. Several large-scale irrigation
pro,~ecte have prcvidod for the needs of 36,000 *~ou,amal.l?-scale irrig~it. ~n
D2`O~eCt3 scr ttered throughout the are bqi-- __
?-a ??-lrutalleu ao before. ENfore the sell which
Chairman Mao helped to dig ie a sign reading, "When you drink, do not forget
.the well-digger.?
CAD. PHODY;C2I0:4 PLATS Pt.IL TC OST g~~,~ __ Pao-ling, Hopeh Jih-psa, 4 clay 52
Cadres iu the first ch'u of Chien-kuo Haien, Hopeh, made the mistake of
netting up their oov subjective agricultural production goals for 1952. The
plena call, for a production increase of 37.1 percent over 1951, but the cadres
gnus the people no opportunity to discuss the gels, nve^n the cs?+.-e3 and mem_
here or thc'hsiang party branches did uct underotand what the ch'u c=arcs were
y47m1ng aL. `-rae masses xere not paycholcgically aroused to eunmrt tt,n ~.~....,.?~_,
Even ]II11tliA7 n~ i ~
teens msiatain that they-know~nothic supposed to rap:?eseni high-production
ca,irea have set nd about the plena except that the ;.h ?u
mutts]. leaders eaY that are notfawarae thatutheir teams have been deaiiea. See
h1gh--production teams and reveal that they have no geated
crease, Plana for a production in-
Of 60 families that have enrolled as hiBh_Production families, the ma~or-
ity Bay they have no hops of meeting the goraie reportedly set, but believe it
a goad thing io sign up, T1~?re have been no discussions saong them to ar^use
their euthusiasn. Tlu~ir conformity ie purely formal. Rey say ell farmers
laver higher production m smatter of course. Such statements indicate ser2ous
edmplaceacy with present production.
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 P.FSIF~ICial'
cnrbtd xe:Clpn vtat tinedpeopae ohrm_ ~~ of ~ brick cnrDed Ne]1e and 3C8 un_
.,e.~..:__ _z not bec2 aroused to a rua]-isation of the
~a90 l~tt7i dye aitd thefr prod~:tiono IIa fnr only 3a-odd tr!7.I,a
locations ata far tha asst &arc nnauitaule :or the
6rea~emt efPicieacy in irrigatian.
~'rodc:rtintz han brow hgrr ~'???~"` "? Las caau radres to tD.ic NZ'ubtc-~ oP incres~:e:3
~silitiea for tha 3 ?opt ? ?erioua ?r,.tDsch to ineraased production ixasai-
area a~cd ahGZtid 3,: ir~,;BiFitel~r eed cars
.the Dnien euttcoYitiea. folly looked {nth Dy
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