USSR HAY AND GRAIN HARVEST MOVES SLOWLY

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• Publication Date: October 10, 1952
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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
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USSR
Economic - Agriculture, crops, live-
stock, animal Froducts
DATE OF
DATE DIST. 1a
Oct 1952
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USSR RAY AND GRAIN HARVEST MOVES SLOALY
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended aouressj
Estonian SSR
There are 40 sovkhozes and 26 MI5 and land improvement stations in Tartu
Oblast. Another land improvement station will go into operation in the near
future.(1)
Latvian SSR
In 1952, the sown area in Riga Oblast increased over 1951 by 22,800 hec-
tares; 15,800 more hectares were sown to perennial grasses under winter grain
crops than in 1951. The area sown with graded seed increased considerably.(2)
Lithuanian SSR
The following table shows percentage fulfill-eat of the 1952 plans for
hay harvesting and ensilage storage in kolkhozes of the republic, as of
10 July (3):
Oblasts
Natural Grasses Mowed
E
nsi
lage S
to
red
Kaunas
40.8
37.4
ypeda
38.5
?52.5
Shyaylyay
15.9
42.7
Vil'avrus
27.9
27.6
There are 793 kolkhozes in Villnyus Oblast. They are serviced by 32 1ITS.
In 1952, the MIS will receive an addit_onal 110 tractors, many combines,
threshers. and other equipment.
AIR
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In 1951, the total sown area in kolkhozee of the Oblast increased over
1950 by 11.1 percent, including that sown to wheat by 29.3 percent.(4)
Belorussian SSR
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for
bag moving and
Natural Grasses Moved
Ensilage Stored
Baranovichi
33.0
30
5
Bobruyak
23.7
.
16
3
Brest
45.9
.
27
0
Gomel'
23.8
.
33
5
Grodno
60.3
.
17
5
Minsk
26.7
.
13
5
Mogilev
17.7
.
29.9
Molodechno
20.8
u
6
Pinsk
36.8
.
82
5
Poles 'ye
26.2
.
21
4
Polotak
19.2
.
62
3
Vitebsk
15.2
.
63.3
Ukrainian SSR
In kolkhozes of the republic, the area from which grain will be harvested
in 1952 is considerably greater than it was in 1951. MPS combines are to har-
vest more than 50 percent of the entire area and 80-90 percent of the area in
Kherson, Odessa, Nikolayev, and Kirovograd oblasts.
Because of frequent rains this year, lodging of grain crops is occuring
in the republic, especially in Kherson, Odessa, Nikolayev, Stalino, and V i-
shilovgrad oblasts. This could complicate the harvest and lead to serious
grain losses in the field. The TaK XP(b) Ukrainian SSR has ordered that com-
bines be equipped with grain-catching devices so as to minimize losses in
fields of lodged grain.(6)
Moldavian SSR
Harvesting of spiked grain crops has begun in kolkhozes of the republic.
The first wheat has been delivered to state procurement points. Many southern
kolkhozes are reporting wheat yields of 20-25 quintals per hectare. (7)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 grain-
harvesting plan in kolkhozer of the republic, as of 10 July (8):
Okrug
Spiked Grain
Crops Reaped
Spiked Grain Crops
Reaped by Combine
Crops from Reaped
Are
Th
h
d
Straw
a
res
e
Stacked
Bel'tsy
'
8.4
3.0
21.8
6.6
Kag41
21.1
14.0
48.4
16.6
Kishinev
'
16.8
5.8
16.1
11.2
Tiraspol
19.9
1.1
42.2
3.6
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The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for
ensilage storage and procurement of coarse fodder in kolkhozes of the republic,
as of 10 July (8):
Ensilage Stored Coarse Fodder procured
9.5
27.2
13.8
15.1
4.1
3.5
3.1
4.5
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plan for
procurement of animal products in the republic, as of 1
July (9):
Okra
Wool
Meat
Milk
Bel'tsy
Kagul'
Kishinev
106.3
93
2
68.7
62
61.3
51.3
62.
9
Tiraspol'
.
94
6
.2
51.3
5
71.5
.
6o.7
71.4
Armenian SSR
Harvesting of winter wheat and barley has begun in the valleys and foot-
hill regions of Armenia. A large number of new combines has been received in
the republic for the harvest.(II) The grain harvest is in progress in all
kolkhozes of the Ararat Valley. (12)
Azerbaydzhan SSR
During the period 1950 - 1951, the number of thoroughbred horses in kol-
khozes of the republic increased by 62 percent.(13)
June rains which fell in the Astrakhan' Oblast steppes promoted the develop-
ment of spiked grain crops. Rye stands as tall as a man's height. The rye har-
vest has begun in the oblast.(12)
In Stavropol' Kray, the harvest is being carried out largely with combines.(14)
In Chkalov Oblast, a new agricultural hydroelectric power station is under
construction on the Kinel'-River near the village of Nn..;-;;ultangulovo in
Aaekeyevskiy Rayon.(15)
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The 1952 plan for saving of spring crops was fulfilled 100.4 percent in
kolkhozes and 102.8 percent in sovkhozes of the republic. The plans for sowing
of spring wheat, cotton, aunflovers, and sugar beets were exceeded in both kol-
khozes and sovkhozes.
The spring sowing plan was fulfilled in kolkhozes and aovkhozes of Akmolinak,
Kokchetav, Kuatanay, Dzhambul, and South Kazakhstan oblasts; it was not fulfilled
in kolkhozee of Taldy-Kurgaan, Karaganda, Kzyl-Orda, East Kazakhstan, and North
Kazakhstan oblasts.(16)
Kolkhozes of the republic have pledged, in a letter to Stalin, to procure
16,100,000 metric tons of hay and to store one million metric tons of ensilage
in 1952. As of 1 July, however, only 28.5 percent of the planned area had been
mowed and the plan for hay procurement had been met only 9.8 percent in kol-
khozes of the republic as a whole.
To Insure adequate fodder supplies for livestock, it is necessary not only
to fulfill the plan in hectares mowed but also in tons of hay procured. In
some areas after the moving plan has been fulfilled little effort is made to
fulfill the hay-procurement plan. For example, the plan for hectares moved
has been fulfilled 105.6 percent but the hay-procurement plan
only in Dzhambul Oblast; in South Kazakhstan Oblast, the hay-procurement been fulfilled only 47.4 percent. In these two oblasts, several hundred thou-
sand hectares have been mowed, but the hay has not been stacked, is
and is losing its nutritive qualities.(17) drying out,
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for
hay mowing and ensilage storage in kolkhozes and sovkhozes of the republic,
as of 10 July (13):
y Ensila
vv1 uu Moved Procured Stored Moved Procured Stored
Akmolinsk 40.5 7.5 6.3 32.8
Aktyubinsk 35.6 14.5 15.2 21 9.3 Alma-Ata 49.9 29.4 59.4 24.7 14.5 59.6
East Kazakhstan 90.0 44.3 65.4 60.0 54.5 13.9
36.1 7.6 52.1
Gur'yev 20.6 8.3 -- -- --
--
Karaganda 30.0 6.7 3.7 2
Kokchetav 43.1 11.8 5.6 419.7 9.6
.5 17.4
Kzyl-KustanayOrda 35.2 12.1 7.6 32.6 12.1 0.6
North Kazakhstan 36.0 13.1 3.0 15.4 5.2 23.3
Pavlodar 41.1 9.4 36.7 15.0 1.4
2.7 08 6.9
0emipalatinsk 9.1 1.9
34.7 9.1 South Kazakhstan 66.7 46.9 136.8 61.5 88.3 8.7 2 61.5 88 ..8 .9
Taldy-Kurgan 40.7 16.3 46.7 27.2 19.9 20 U..5
West Kazakhstan 34.2 8.2 9.6 -- -- --
At present, there are 3,226 kolkhozes,,258 sovkhozes, 376 MTS, and 39
mechanized animal husbandry stations in the republic. Kolkhozes of the republic
have been allotted 78.6 million hectares of plow land, hay land, and pasture
land. Grass crop rotation has been introduced in 73 percent of the kolkhozes
of the republic.
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During the 1946 - 15930 Five-Year Plan, the number of livestock in kol-
khozea of the republic increased as follows over the prewar number: cattle 75
percent, sheep and goats almost two times, and horses 106 percent. Comparable
increases in sovkhozes were: cattle 26 percent, sheep and goats 63 percent,
and horses 43 percent.
During the period 1949 through 1951, kolkhozes planted 20,000 hectares of
shelter belts.(19)
Kirsh SSR
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plan for
fodder procurement in kolkhozes of the republic, as of 10 July (20):
Dzhalal-Abad
Frunze
Issyk-Kul'
Osh
Tales
Tyan'-Shan'
Alfalfa Mowed
Natural Grasses Moved (let cutting) Ensilage Stored
56.8 74.9 65.1
58.4 91.6 38.0
0.5 49.5 28.8
45.5 72.8 67.6
42.5 84.7 44.5
0.7 2.5 5.6
1. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 13 Jul 52
2. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 2 Jul 52
3. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 13 Jul 52
4. Ibid., 10 Jul 52
5. Minsk, Sovetskaya Be:orussiya, 13 Jul 52
?6. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, I Jul 52
7. Moscow, Izvestiya, 6 Jul 52
8. Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 12 Jul 52
9. Ibid., 6 Jul 52
10. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 15 Jul 52
11. Izvestiya, 8 Jul 52
12. Pravda Ukrainy, 2 July 52
13. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 3 Jul 52
14. Leningrad, Leningradskaya Pravda, 8 Jul 52
15. Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 2 Jul 52
16. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanakaya Pravda, 2 Jul 52
17. Ibid., 6 Jul 52
18. Ibid., 13 Jul 52
19. Moscow, Planovoye Khozyaystvo, No 3, 1952
20. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 13 Jul 52
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