INFORMATION ON MARKETING OF EARLY RICE IN CHINA

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 445
• Publication Date: December 17, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION COiiFIDF.iJTL'.L
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic - ,".grlculture, rice harvest
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WtIERE
PUBLISHED Tientsin, Peipir,3
DATE
PUBLISHED 26 Jul - 11 Aag 1953
LANGUAGE Chinese
DATA ^IST. /'j Dec 1953
N0. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
IIJFORhUTIOR ON Pi~~RiOrTIN^. OF :ABLY RICE IN CHZJL'1
~ummary: Early rice Ss on the market in the provinces of Hu-
nan, Hupeh, Honun, Kiangai, Chekiang, Kwantung, and Szechwan. The
amount sold daily in ouch hsien varies from 15C,000 cattier to over
3 million cattier.
During this time the purchase of rice accounts for 80-90 per-
cent of all daily market transactions. In Chekiang Province the
cooperatives buy 75 percent of all rice that is sold.
The price established by the government is effective ir. all pur-
chasing stations. In Chekiang Province this was reported to be 6
percent above last year's price. In Chekiang 1,700 grain-purchasing
atations were established.
The farmers sold 60-70 percent of their early rice, according
to statistics for 11 hsiang ~n Hunan Province.]
EARLY RICE APPEARS ON t~.ARKL?TS -- Tientsin, Ta Kung Pao, 5 Aug 53
Peiping, 4 Aug(Hsin-hugj-- In provinces of Hunan, Hupeh, Honan, and Ki-
angsi the early rice is on the market. Everywhere the state commercial agen-
cies and the cooperatives are exceedingly busy buying grain. In the rich
plains bordering Tung-t'inr3 Hu, from 1,500,000 to 2,400,000 cattier of new rice
arc brought to market daily in each hsien. In Plan Hsien, which produces the
cost rice, ~,30C,000 cattier of .-_-c came cn t?:e market on 27 July. In the
plains bordering P'o-yang Hu and along both banks of the Y.an Chiang, and ir. the
Chiang-Han plain between the Yangtze and the Han rivers, several hundred thou-
san3catties of rice ire now brought to market from each hsien daily.
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o Tun repo::ed b;r Cxrittee o: r`:concm!_s of t!:c t?ua-
~ung Helen Yceple's Govern-r.:a , the farcers Hold 6~~-7;` "accent o.^ their earl.
rice crop. They slant 'j rercent of the ^enay thus obtained to purchase ca-
ter Sals for their supplcrcrv,r^ ^.raiuctive enterprises, each ns bacbco, F-ar~l-
vnre, tools, and fcrtillzrr, a^d?~,bout 24 percent _?cr oil, snit, cloth, snd
incidental necessities.
~':RLY RIC? 1'tE?CIi'?4ED II+ CIIE'r'I:S::J -- Tientsin, Tn{.un,^, Fao? 5 ,~ _ 53
In Chekianv, ir0^:^ce, in the Chia-hsL;g Special Gd~inistrntive Dlstrl?_t
where curly rice is harvested scmewh:,t !ate." than in Han Province the r:ew
crop Ss be~lnnlnq to ^.ppenr 1:: the r..?,rket. The ..^ocl lsadling orgnnizations
in Cheki-~n:3 have alread:? P.E~.ab?IShed ,"?Ol r:?ain-purct:uing station.
In gene: e? the buying c: rice is from 5 to dnys earlier thsn last
year. Invnrinbl,?,? the Frain try:;suctions account for 8C-?l ~.ercent of the
totr_1 trading i^ the dnil;; mnr'.:et. i_;~ ^7 Jul?, the rice bought ?,rp hnd al-
ready ranched 135 percent of ^revious esticates. The price established by the
..^,overncent is effective in all the ;,urchasing statii
Tler,tsin, T^ K,rn?; "ao, 1'. =~
;nrly rice came on the caret in Chekinng irovince about 10 July. 'dith
the govcrncent offers..^,g a rca ornblc price the Carmers were ready to sell and
the amount sold increased ranidl?: from day to day. The state trading compa-
nies and the cooperatives accounted for about 90 percent of the rice market
transactions. During the lust 10 days of July, in such places as Chin-hua,
Ian-ch'i, and Chu-chi hsiens the ac:ount sold in each hsier. was from 150,000 to
^00,~~00 catties each day. The highest figure wss that in Yu-yco Hslen where
one day about one mSllion ratties werr- sold.
The rice in Cheki: n,^ Province xan of Good quality, better than in other
years ..^.nd the percentage of moisture within the prescribed limits.
The cooperatives increased their proportion of purchases. Lsst ,year they
bought shout 60 percent of the rice th^.t was for s_le bu'. this year in accord-
ance with nr, ap?ecment mode with the Chekiang Provincial Grain Bureau then
raised their percentage to 75 percent of abut was for sale.
The selling price of earl; rice In Chekiang Province was about 6 percent
above that of last year.
GOCD CROP .l'Id F:rlAIIGTIJIrG -- Peiping. Jen-min Jih-pao, 4 Aug 53
The sucm~r crop of rice in lg5j was the first in Kxnngtung Province
since land redistribution. '?!ith the exception of a fax localities where
natural disasters reduced the yield, in ~enernl throughout the province the
early rice provided a good harvest, 10 percent better than 1952.
On Ilainan Island, ercept for tlu?ee hsien in the north that suffered from
urouglrt, LY,rre tins a good crop o, ~wrly :'i.c.
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._:RLY J1ICi. Z~.AYE~TED iti ,",Olli'f~iiii ~~ ,~
~C1iQ?, ciPir.,-., Je:.-e1:. Jl};-Fuo, ^ti Ja? 5
^he early rice harvest has bed n in nine hslen ci' southern Szechi:::n. Ir.
3su-ho Aainng, Lung-ch'nng Hale^, the bent rice s:nlcs hsd 3J~ gralas of rice,
a ~~ percent increase over Inst year.
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