SURVEY OF AGRICULTURAL DATA FOR THE USSR, JULY 1953

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGFNCY REPORT
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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
USSR
Economic.- Agriculture, crops, mechanization,
fertilization
Daily newspapers, monthly periodical
USSR
1 - 31 Jul 1953
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REPORT NO.
SURVEY OF AGRICULTURAL DATA FOR THE USSR, JULY 1953
This report presents information, from July 1953 Soviet news-
papers and a periodical, on agriculture in the USSR as a whole and
in 12 union republics. Progress and statistical data are given on
the following: sown area, crops, mechanization, and fertilization.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources
An article by Academician I. Yakushkin, entitled "On the Fields of the
Country," contained the following information on 1953 crop development and
grain-harvest progress in the USSR up to 25 July:
vesting is carried out in the USSR. Up to 15 July, it was in progress in the
southern part of the country, but had begun further northward only as far as
delayed to some extent by the forests found there. On those 2 days, har-
vesting of rye began in Penzenskaya and Tambovskaya oLlasts. The harvest be-
The harvest began on 16 and 17 July in the Volga Region, the Tatarskaya
ASSR, and the Mariyskaya ASSR, where ripening of spiked grain crops is usually
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and CherniBbusks --'s "` 11ax was begun in Kiyevskaya, Zhitomirskaya,
Ya oblasts of the Ukraine and in the southern portion of Kal-
ininskaya Oblast.
Tea leaves were being gathered along the Black Sea, and watermelons in
Astrakhanskaya Oblast. Grapes, berries, and tomatoes were ripe in the Uzbek
SSR. Tobacco leaves were being cut on the tobacco plantations of the southern
Kazakh SSR.
Reports of good yields of winter wheat were being received from manyy
Places: 23-25 quintals in the Oneshty Sovkhoz in the Moldavian SSR, 23 quin-
tals in the Kolkhoz imeni Malenkov in Khar'kovs'rsya Oblast, and 25 quintals
in the Kolkhoz imeni Kalinin in the Azerbaydzhan SSR.
As a result of heavy rains, grain crops were lodging on considerable
areas. To harvest these areas without losses would require the use of special
equipment. In the central zone, where harvesting was in progress or begin-
ning, it is necessary to use simple machines in addition to combines, e.,,e-
cially for rye.
In the central zone, rye is the principal winter grain crop and oats the
principal spring grain crop. Oats ripen 8 to 10 and sometimes 12 days later
than rye. During this period, it should be possible not only to cut all of
the rye but also to thresh that portion reaped with simple machines. To speed
up-threshing of this grain, it may be threshed directly from the shock; how-
ever, stacking should not be delayed, since unstacked grain is not considered
harvested .(l)
According to plan, 81 percent of all grain crops in the USSR are to be
harvested by combine in 1953. In the southern part of the USSR, the propor-
tion of combine harvesting is to be highei than this figure.(2)
s
great n of
crops, 9 times as great in sowing of winter crops
, andi13stimes as spring
planting of potatoes. great in
Mechanization of agricultural work in of the
kolkhozes of the republic has risen
to a level four times as great as at the beginning Fifth Five- Year
Plan;
it is now twice as great in plowing 15 times a
In 1953, self-propelled combines
drawn plows were received from the Rubtsovsk AltayselimashlPlant, thecRostov-
on-Don Rostsel'mash Plant. nnA th AA---- .,,
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At present, there are 12 times as many tractors in the republic as 4n
1946. The level of field work mechanization has risen 10 percent over
1952.(5)
Latvian SSR
Experimental growing of Jerusalem artichokes is being carried out on
plots of the Krimuldskaya Experimental Station of the Institute of Zootechnics
and Zoogenetics, Academy of Sciences Latvian SSR. A perennial plant, the
Jerusalem artichoke is propagated from tubers; it stands the Baltic winter
well and in spring produces vigorous green shoots.
Experiments have shown that it is possible to cut annually, per hectare,
700-800 quintals of green tops, which are converted into ensilage, and to dig
200-250 quintals of tubers, which are a highly nutritive feed and may success-
fully be used to replace feed potatoes. It has been calculated that the total
amount of green tops and tubers harvested from one hectare is equivalent in
feed value to 120 quintals of oats.
The 4 metric tons of tubers harvested in 1952 were distributed to kolk-
hozes of the republic for planting, so as to introduce this valuable fodder
crop into agricultural practice. In 1953, several hectares of Jerusalem arti-
chokes were again planted at the experimental station; almost the entire yield
of tubers will again be distributed to kolkhozes so as to increase the area
planted to this crop in Latvia.(6)
During the last 2 years, the sown area in kolkhozes and sovkhozes of the
republic increased by more than 200,003 hectares.(5)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of 1953 plans for har-
vesting of grain crops and pulling of fiber flax in kolkhozes of the republic:
20 Jul (7)
25 Jul (8)
Grain
Crops
Oblast Reaped
Grain
Crops
Threshed
Fiber
Fix
Pulled
Grain
Crops
Reaped
Including
by
Combine
Grain.
Crops
Threshed
Fiber
Flax
Pulled
Baranovichskaya
--
--
--
35.5
1.1
1.2
30.9
Bobruyskaya
1.2
1.6
6.9
22,7
10.3
10.4
31.5
Brestsl:aya
23.7
5.0
0.9
68.1
10.8
11.6
8.0
Gomel'skaya
5.0
36.9
--
36.5
31.2
31.8
3.5
Grodnenskaya
9.9
0.3
--
65.1
2.5
2.9
3.1
Minskaya
--
--
--
3.3
3.1
3.2
4.1
Mogilevskaya
--
--
--
--
--
Molodechnenskaya
--
--
--
8.2.
2.1
2.1
0.2
Pinskaya
29.4
3.6
20.4
71.2
4.1
4.7
29.6
Polesskaya
24.8
1?.2
8.7
61,2
17.3
20.9
21.8
Polotskaya
--
--
--
1.7
-
-
0.3
Vitebskaya
--
--
'The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1953 plan for
fodder procurement in kolkhozes of the republic:
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5 Jul (9)
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Oblast Grasses or Hauled
Ensila
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G
10 Jul (10)
" r Stacked
-
owed
g
Unstacked
-~~ Stored
rasses
Mowed
or Hau
led
Ensilage
Baranovichska
Ya 52.7
Bobruyskay
63.4
4
_
Uns
_ Stored
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a
43.3
Brestskaya 74.7
Gomel'ska
73.5
74.2
.3
3
20.9
76
57
76
82
56
ya
Grodnenskaya 55
6
53.8
37.6
53-1
80
6
81
40
.
Minskaya
48.7
ldogilevaka
a
73.7
3
23.7
21
0
76
70
77
58
2
y
26.2
Molodechnenskeys 37.8
Pinsda
a
44.8
48.6
.2
36 2
64
45
76
3
28
y
Polesskaya 77.0
a 39.0
Polotaka
75.8
69 0
30.6
42.2
60
92
67
81
46
36
4
y
Vitebskaya 32.0
28
8
53.1
58.3
46
78
7
.
50.9
67.5
40
56
61
l5 Jul 1
1
74
Baranovichska
20 Jul
(7
Bobruyskaya 68.8
Brestska
a
85.2
39.6
99.3
88.6
y
97.9
Gomel'akaya
5.9
86.2
32'3
43.2
78.3
101
9
42.8
38.2
Grodnenskaya 7
Grodneva 7.6
76.5
84.4
61.7
.
86.2
90.9
83 0
45.2
Mogilevskaya 66.8
60
4
80.9
35.0
35.0
96.2
8
89.4
74.3
41
3
Molodechnenakaya
.
Pinskaya
67.9
78.0
45,3
7.4
75.5
86.0
76
0
.
41.1
Polesska 102.6
62.2
86 7
39.2
53.1
`go?6
109
2
.
84.5
4 2
2.
4
.
Polotskaya 57 7
Vitebskaya
1
82.2
67 4
45.0
64
.
61.
88 5
75.
6
5
51.8
43.6
64.3
.3
80.9
o
57
5
74
2
67.8
1
25 Jul 8)
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.
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9
91.0
Baranovichekaya 102
4
.
Bobruyskaya 84
6
96.4
45.3
.
Breatekaya 106
1
93'9
43.8
.
Gomel,akaya 92.5
Grodnenskaya
95-h
89.4
46.7
65
1
102.6
Minskaya 93.9
93.9
.
44.9
Mogilevakaya 87,6
M
l
87.
91.4
83
8
46 9
o
odechnenskayal
.
52.6
Pinakaya 112.5
91.0
46.1
Polesskaya 78 6
Pol.otska
a
93.3
89.8
60.1
5
y
7g 1
Vitebska
4
67
86.o
5.1
68.7
.
84.3
94 7
Kolkhozes of Pinskaya O
to the state 101 per
blast ha
d
fulfilled th
e
cent by l4 Jul
completing hay arvesting and
Y, weeks earlie
Pltn n i
r than i
d1
ery
hay
grain harvest.(12)
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storage and were
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1952.
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preparing for
the
Kolkhozes of Molodechnen
mowing 100.3 percent and that
by 30.July.(13)
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The following table shove percentage fulfillment of the 1953 Pian for
combine repair in M15 of the republic, as of 5 July (9):
Oblast Fulfillment Oblast Fulfillment
~aranovichskaya 78.0 Mogilevskaya 70.0
Bobruyskaya 84.9 Molodechnenskaya 81.7
Brestskaya 92.1 Pinakaya 67.2
Gomel'skay? 82.2 Polesskaya 71.4
Grodnenakaya 86.4 Folotsknya 83.9
Afinakaya 76.8 Vitebsknya 62.4
The following table shove percentage fulfillment of the 1953 P1?n for
aPPlication of local fertilizers to kolY.hoz fields of the republic:
5 Jul 9 10 Jul (10) 15 Jul (11) 20 Jul (7 25 Jul 8
Oblast Manure t?fanure Pent Manure A(anure Peat Manure
Baranovichskayn 98.1 98 56 98.6 98.6 57.4 98.6
Bobruyskaya 71.6 71 31 72.0 72.4 31.5 73.2
Brestskaya 89.7 89 21 90.8 94.6 22.2 91.3
Gomel'sknya 67.4 67 27 67.8 67.8 28.0 67.8
Grodnenskayu 109.3 109 43 110.2 110.5 44.5 110.7
Atinsknyn 67.0 67 19 67.6 68.2 19.6 68.6
btogilevstcaya 82.6 83 6 84.6 84.8 6.9 84.9
Molodechnenslcaya 101.5 102 45 103.4 103.4 45.1 103.5
?Pinsknyn 71.9 71 21 72.9 74.0 25.0 74.1
' Polesskaya 71.9 72 20 72.1 72.2 20.9 72.3
Polotsl:aya 78.7 80 25 81.4 82.4 26.3 83.1
vitebsknya 55.3 57 4 58.8 60.5 4.7 61.5
Ukrainian SSR
In 1953, kolkhozes of the Ukrainian SSR planted 110,000 more hectares to
potatoes than in 1952.(14)
In 1953, kolkhozes of Zhitomirskuy~t Oblast face the task of harvesting
6,000 more hectares of flax than in 1952? The number of flax pullers in AtTS
of'the obiast has risen to 300 machines; scores of flax combines are also
available.(15)
Kolkhozes of ZhitomirsYsya, Kiyevskayn, Volynsk:aya, Chernigovsknya, sad
other oblasts of the republic had begun harvesting fiber flax by 17 July.
Threshing and retting of flax had begun in Y.iyevskaya Oblast. A good crop
vne groan everywhere this year. By the time the harvest began, APPS of the
republic had received additional numbers of flan-harvesting and flax-process-
1ng machines. These will permit mechanized harvesting of almost 80 percent
and mechanized processing of 60 percent of the crop.(76)
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20 Jul (19) 25 Jul (20)
All Spiked All Spiked
Grain Grain Reaped Grain Grain Reaped
Crops Crops by Crops Crops by
Reaped Reaped Combine Reaped Reaped Combine
Zaporozhskaya 43.6 49.7 47.9 61.2 69.9 674
Zhitomirskaya 26.5 33.6 14.2 42.5 53.8 26.9
Republic as a whole 30.0 36.6 27.7 145.8 55.8 43.2
About one million hectares of spiked grain crops had been harvested in
the republic by 14 July 1953; this was four times as many hectares as had been
harvested by 14 July 1952.(21)
In 1952, the area sown to winter wheat in kolkhozes of Kiyevskaya Oblast
was expanded by 25,000 hectares. In 1953, the area sown to this crop is be-
ing expanded by an additional 40,000 hectares. By 28 July, kolkhozes of the
Oblast had plowed 62,000 more hectares for winter crops than by the same date
in 1952.(22)
In 1953, kolkhozes of Kiyevskaya, Vinnitskaya, Kamenets-Podol'skaya,
Sumskaya, Drogobychskaya, Stanislavskaya, and Khar'kovskaya oblasts pledged
to obtain a yield of 230-240 quintals of sugar beets per hectare; those of
Odesskaya, Kirovogradskaya, Poltavskaya, Volynskaya, Rovenskaya, Ternopol'-
skaya, and Chernovitskaya oblasts pledged to obtain a yield of 245-265 quin-
tals per hectare. Engaged in competition for meeting these goals were 417
rayons, 686 MTS, 7,999 kolkhozes, about 25,000 brigades, and about 141,000
squads.
. Most kolkhozes of the republic sowed sugar beets at the proper times and
on well-prepared soil.(23)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1953 plan for
fodder procurement in kolkhozes of the republic:
5 Jul 24
Natural Sown , 10 Jul (17)
Natural Sown
Grasses Grasses Ensilage Grasses Grasses Ensilage
Oblast Mowed Mowed Stored Mowed Mowed Stored
Chernigovskaya 46.5
Chernovitskaya 28.0
Dnepropetrovskaya 114.3
Drogobychshsya 50.0
Izmail'ska;ra 114.0
xiyevskaya ;4
Kirovogradskaya ~~,5
Rovenskaya 93.8
Stalinskaya 85.8
Ternopol'skaya 98.14
Vinnitskaya 100.0
66.3 43.1 65.6 76.0 52.2
74.6 18.4 53.3 81.7 22.8
58.1 33.9 120.0 63.8 37.5
30.2 27.0 62.7 37.3 28.8
63.9 65.0 120.0 68.1 68.3
82.2 10.8 101.2 AA _S 17 n
85.3 28.4 84.o 31.2
99.7 1+0. 71.5 1o7 91.1
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1~ ?'~ 35.3 07.8 8~ .1 38.8
64.1 ~ti .9 91.7 71.9 30.3
58.2 30.8 50.5 FA ,
5
3
58.1 29.5 ' 102.0 65.7 33.1
85.3 loo ,0 88.9 6.o
61.6 3.1
503.0 8 7 1.7 68.4 43.1
.0 2.6 1t.5 s~ n ~,< <
771.9 56.3 100.8 75.3 60.9
68.9 63.7 A7 A 6
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15 Jul (18)
20 Jul
(19)
Hay Ensilage
Hay
Ensilage
Procured Stored
Procured
Stared
Chernigovskaya 32.6 56.5
Ch
40.4
61.2
ernovitskaya 37.2 24.9
Dne
r
39.7
27.9
p
opetrovskaya 50.4 40.1
Dro
b
56.o
43.5
go
ychskaya 31.6 30.8
41
1
Izmail'
skaya 116.5 74.5
K
.
120.2
31.7
80.9
amenets-Podol'skaya 43.7 14.8
46
4
14
8
Khar'kovskaya
Kh
49.0 45.5
.
52.9
.
49
1
ya
ersOns
38.1 68.5
44.1
.
71.7
ya
Ki
52.1 32.3
56.2
34.8
rovogradskaya
L'
81.8 49.9
87.6
53.5
vovskaya
Nikolayevskaya
42.5
55.3
4
49.9
56.5
Odessk
Odessk
5
'0 83.8
59.9
87.3
a
ayaaya
69 .3 40.9
76.6
42.8
Rovenskaya
S
56.7 85.5
6o.7
88
0
talinskaya
28.4
8
32
.
Stanislaveka
ya
.
1
39.9
37.4
Sumska
a
3
.3 38.9
39.9
41.2
y
T
'
36.2 62.6
41.4
66,8
ernopol
skaya
Vi
43.6 35.2
47.1
37.4
nnitskaya
49.6 6
5
Volynsknya
.
4
4
4
9.2
Voroshilov
radsk
3
72.4
352.5 .1
73.4
g
aya
Z
30.5 45
5.5
32.1
47.5
akarpatskaya
2
5.3 48.6
31.5
51.6
Zaporozhskaya
39.1 63.3
45.2
66.0
Zhitomirskaya
31.9
4.9
4
37
Republic ras
4
.
72.3
a whole
3.9 45.9
48.9
48.7
25 Jul (20)
Hay Ensilage
Procured Stored
49.4
64.4
39.7
36.2
61.4
47.3
49.0
33.2
127.8
90.7
47.6
1.9
57.6
5
51. 7
50.7
76.7
60.3
36.1
92.0
56.4
51.5
57.6
68.5
90.6
82.1
45.1
64.8
88.9
35.5
39.2
47.5
43.3
43.0
69.4
48.8
39.1
55.7
73.
46.6
9
73.9
33.8
50.5
37.0
57.7
55.6
70.3
40.0
71.
53.3
51.5
5
Zakarpatskaya, L'vovskaya, and Volynskaya oblasts had fulfilled the 1953
plan for delivery of hay to the state by 21 July, which was ahead of schedule.
They fulfilled the plan 106.5 percent, 134.7 percent, and 101.2 percent, re-
spectively.(25)
Kolkhozes of Stanislavskaya Oblast had fulfilled the 1953 plan for de-
livery of hay to the state 102.7 percent by 20 July. Delivery of hay in pay-
ment for MTS work was continuing.
Chernovitskaya Oblast had fulfilled the 1953 plan for delivery of hay to
the state 103.2 percent by 29 July; 15.4 percent more hay had been delivered
to procurement points of the oblast than by the same date in 1952. Delivery
of hav in navment P.,,. rape ....._i.._.__ 1_11
reached the waxy maturity stage, other portions had not yet reached the flow-
Harvesting of grain crops had begun on kolkhn,. o.,a
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Georgian SSR
In 1953, more than 60 percent of the grain crops in the republic are to
be harvested by combine.
Kolkhozes of the republic had harvested about 200,000 hectares of grain
crops by 25 July. However, progress of the harvest in the republic as a whole
could not be considered satisfactory. One of the reasons for the slow prog-
ress made was the inadequate amount of aid given the kolkhozes by the MTS,(28)
Azerbaydzhan SSR
In 1952, as compared with 1940, the area sown to winter grain crops in
Hagorno-Karabakhskaya Autonomous Oblast increased by 11,000 hectares and the
yield of grain crops more than doubled.
In 1953, the area sown to cotton in the oblast increased 42.9 percent
over 1952.(29)
Kolkhozes of Chalyabinskaya Oblast had begun harvesting of grain crops
by 27 July. MI5 of the oblast had received 200 new combines by the time har-
vesting began. It has been generally noted that the grain crop is better
than it was in 1952.(30) Almost the entire harvest in kolkhozes and sovkhozes
of the oblast is to be carried out by combine.(31)
'Ifter several successive days of heavy rain, hot, dry weather with cloud-
less skies prevailed in the Kuban' on 6 July. The heavy rains caused much
anxiety among the grain growers of the region. At many places, the rains
brought the tall grain to the ground and reduced it to a tangled condition.
To cope with these added difficulties, special devices were attached to com-
bines for harvesting the lodged grain. By 6 July, mass harvesting of the new
crop was in progress in Krasnodarskiy Kray with thousands of combines in the
fields.(15)
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Kolkhozes of Mariyskaya ASSR exceeded the 1953 plan for sowing of spring
crops. Areas sown to wheat and legumes were greater than in 1952,(34)
In 1953, about 70 percent of the grain
be harvested by combine. (35) crops in Mariyskaya ASSR are to
The newest MTS in NOvosibirskaya Oblast is the Kaminskaya M15, located
on the bank of a river in Kuybyshevskiy Rayon; it was the 135th MTS be es-
tablished in the Oblast-(36)
to
Harvesting of winter grain crops had begun by 23 July in Pskovskaya
Oblast; 70 percent of all winter grain crops in the Oblast are to be har-
vested by combine.(22)
Kolkhozes and sovkhones of Saratovskaya Oblast increased the areas sown
to grain and industrial crops in 1953; 98 percent of the area sown to grain
crops is to be harvested by combine.(2)
The 1953 plan for sowing of spring crops was fulfilled 101.1 percent
and that for sowing of spring wheat 102.8 percent by kolkhozes and sovkhozes
of Stalingradskaya Oblast. More than 80 percent of all spring crops were
sown on winter fallow; almost all spring wheat, sunflowers, sugar beets, and
mustard were sown on either winter or summer fallow.(37)
BY 30 July, 85 percent of all grain crops had been harvested in kolkhozes
of Stavropol'skiy Kray; this was more than 2.5 times as large an area as had
been harvested by the same date in 1952. More than 1.5 million pud of grain
were being hauled to procurement points and elevators daily.(38)
In 1953, kolkhozes of Sverdlovskaya Oblast planted
to potatoes than in 1952; they completed Planting b 5,500 more hectares
20 June in 1952. Since no frosts occurred after the 5 .rune, as compared with
their condition in mid-J 7y was satisfactory and, in some areas, gOOd,(39)
At present, 80.4 percent of the sown area in kolkhozes of the Udmurtskaya
ASSR is devoted to grain crops; the remaining 19.6 percent is devoted to in-
dustrial crops, fodder root crops, perennial grasses, vegetables, and pota-
toes.(4o)
In 1953, the area sown to flax in the Udmurtskaya ASSR was 1- times as
great as in 1952, Mass harvesting of the crop had begun by 23 July; 600 flux
pullers and 100 flax combines were to be used; 80 percent of the crop was to
be harvested by mechanical means.(4i)
By 30 July, 7,000 more hectares of grain had been cut in kolkhozes and
sovkhozes of Ul'yanovskaya Oblast than by the same date in 1952.(38)
In 1953, there is a bountiful supply of grasses in Volonoaska
there is an adequate s,,,,
a
l
y
p
y
the Oblast pion for ensilage storage had been fulfilled Only 2f machines.
the Oblast as of 30 June. The principal real S percent in
1-1 now nsil
k_.ge storage was being car--
ried out in kolkhozes of the O
blastga,,,had t
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On 1 July, a second b;IS began operation in Ordzhonikidzevskiy Rayon of
the Yakutskaya ASSR. Recently, a new MTS was organized in Suntarskiy Rayon
of the republic. Six rayons of the republic now have two MTS each.
Hundreds of combines and tractors, including diesel tractors, are at work
on the fields of the republic. 14TS serve 145 kolkhozes, which sow twn thirds
of the total sown area of the republic. With the aid of ICS, the kolkhwes
are successfully coping with the harsh climate of the far north and growing
good crops. In 1953, the gross grain harvest in the republic is expected to
be 67 percent greater than it was in 1945. Many kolkhozes obtain an average
of 15-20 quintals of grain per hectare.(43)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1953 plan for
dodder procurement in kolkhozes and sovkhozes of the Kazakh SSR:
,-." I1
Kolkhozes
Sovkhozes
Oblast
Area
owed
Hay
Procured
Ensilage
Stored '
Area
Mowed
Hay Ensilage
Procured Stored
:.kmolinskaya
'
kt
b
38.7
11.8
4.9
30.5
9.5
.
yu
inskaya
Al
a
;
31,7
15.9
16.5
20.4
5.9
3.E
m
-
tinskaya
Dzh
b
38.4
10.8
20.1
14.1
12.2
67.7
am
ulzkaya
G
'
56.8
1 .0
35.8
37.2
32.4
24.8
ur
ycvckaya
t
24.1
12.4
--
--
--
--
.ragandinskaya
I
k
h
t
25.1+
6.0
--
29.4
9.7
o
c
e
avskaya
t
39.5
13.2
4.2
34.6
11.1
--
. ur
enaychaya
Kr
l
30.1
12.3
11.7
27.4
10.5
0.6
.-Ordinslal ra
.;
P
27.8
9.4
1.0
21.1
9.9
=vlodarskaya
36,8
5.5
--
37
0
6
7
Sec:ipalntinskayaa
-
30.2
6.6
4.1
.
33.6
.
18.7
1.7
2.0
evero
Kazakhstanskaya
T
35.3
9.1
10.4
44.4
13.0
aldy-Kurganskaya
36.2
12.1
19
2
26
1
16
1
8
1
Voctochno-Kazakhstanskaya 26.5 6.3
.
15.4
.
--
.
!
.
1
Yuzhno-Kazakhctanskaya; 53.4 21.5
39.0
47.3
46.8
82.2
.lma-?tinskayal 145 9 14.1 1 26 -0o.6
133. .7 0
.6 70.4
10 Jul (45)
i,kmolinska
.,.-v ., 47.5 15.9 9.3 38.8 14.7 0.3
Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskava 59.1 24.0 42.5 50.1 48.9 35.1
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Aktyubinskaya
Alma-tinsl.aya
Dzhumbulskayu
Our'yevskaya
Karagandinskaya
Kokchetavskaya
Kustanayskaya
I:zyl-0rdinakaya
Pavlodarskaya
Semipalatlnskaya
Severn-K:zakhstans'raya
Ta1dy-Kurganskaya
Vostochno-ICazakhstanskaya
Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskava
Zapadno-Kazukhstanskaya
Area
Moved
54.7
45.h
51.2
70.3
34.6
36.9
55.7
45.5
42.6
52.4
41.0
48.8
51.1
38.9
64.0
46,4
Akmolinskaya 62.6
Aktyubinakaya 51.4
Alma-ntinskaya 56.4
Dzhambulskaya 74.4
Gur'yevskaya 40.1
Karanandinskaya 40.0
Kokchetavskaya 64.5
Kustannysl:aya 52.4
Kzyl-Ordirskaya 47.9
Pavlodarskaya 62.4
Semipalatinskayu 46.8
Severo-Kazakhstanskaya 56.0
Taldy-Kurganskaya 58.4
Vostochno-Kazakhstar.skaya 46.3
Yu:hro-ICazakhstanskaya 67.4
Zapadno-Kazakhstanskaya 51.0
Kzyl-Ordiaskaya 54.9
Pavlodarukaya 69.7
Taldy-Kurganskaya 63.8
Vostochno-Kuzakhstanskaya 53.1
Kolkhozes Sovkhozes
Hay Ensilage Area Hay Ensilage
Procured Stored Mowed Procured Stored
15 Jul (46)
19.7 15.1
27.5 25.0
18.1 32 4
24.5 44.1
18.5 --
13.2 2.8
21.9 12.2
25.3 22.8
18.0 10.5
9.9 1.7
9.5 14.0
20.0 11.8
20.3 35.9
11.7 21.2
25.7 45.?
32.2 12.0
2.4.2
32.1
21.3
26.5
21.9
20 Jul (47)
21.9
51.7
23.4
2.8
28.0
33.7
13.4
12.1
36.2
28.3
22.2
85.1
49.2
49.3
45.2
88.0
--
--
--
--
16.8 5.7 43.7 22.5 1.4
27.3 18.5 56.5 28.7 --
31.0 27.4 44.6 23.5 3.8
21.8 18.0 28.6 16.2 18.0
12.7 7.3 55.1 14.5 14.6
13.2 23.8 46.3 26.4 14.6
23.3 15.6 70.1 29.7 5.5
23.6 42.6 36.9 26.1 29.2
15.3 29.8 -- -- --
27.6 46.7 58.9 53.8 89.0
39.2 13.2 -- -- --
25 Jul (48)
27.2 25.0 28.6 16.2
15.5 19.5 62.1 19.8
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By 20 July, there was reason for serious alarm with regard to the fodder
procurement situation in the republic. Despite failure to fulfill the plan,
many kolkhozes, 1?iTS, and MZbS (mechanized animal husbandry stations) in the
southwestern part of the republic were ceasing to mow hay and taking their
tractor-drown and horse-drawn mowers out of operation. Between 16 and 20 July,
the hay procurement rate fell sharply in kolkhozes of Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya,
Kzyl-Ordinskiya, Dzhambulskaya, t,ktyubinskaya, and Zapadno-KazakhstaiiLkava
oblasts.
In acme oblasts, measures were not being taken to speed up stacking of
hay. In Kzyl-Ordinshaya Oblast, for example, one half of the hay was lying
on the ground; in this respect, the situation was no better in Karagandinskaya,
,,ktyubinsluya, and Pavlodarskaya oblasts
Defoliation of cotton and drvine ?f ++,.,, -__ .
Kolkhozes of the republic fulfilled the 5-day plan for storage of ensi-
only 25.6 percent. ',s shown by the table, this work had not yet begun in
Gur'yevskaya Oblast. 2noilage storage was also going badly in Pavlodarskaya,
Y,arar,--. ; vwt., ;?.n^,dro-Kt, a'rhstansl:aya,
1art:; . (1:7) and Severo-Kazakhstans%aye ob-
D::' 25 July, work on the mecdovs was declining in some oblasts of the re-
public. Kolkhozes, Sovkhozes, and 1,2I of Sever o-Y,azakhstanskaya Oblast, for
esnnple. can now 125,000 hectares of grasses ever; 5-day period; but from 21
to 25 July, they actually mowed only 39,400 hectares. Kolkhozes of Kokchetav-
-I:aya Oblast mowed a total of 47,500 hectares, only about one third the number
scheduled. (1;8 )
On 21 July ]953, 1TS of the cotton-growing regions of the republic re-
ceived over 50 of he latest models of eetton-harvesting machines from Tash-
kent and Taganrog. ;,mong them were self-propelled SKhM-48 machines. More
than 3n0 self-propelled machines made in Taganrog will be in operation on the
cotton fields of Yuzhno-Kazakhstanskaya, Dzhanbuls'raya, and Kzyl-0rdinskaya
oblactc .
Mechanized harvesting of cotton will be considerably greater in 1953 than
in 1952. ,bout 1,500 machines, 1.5 times as many as in 1952, will take part
in harvesting the cotton crop of the republic. This number of machines frees
about 40,000 kolkhoz workers from manual cotton picking.
The number of machines for processing unopened cotton bolls ;s increasing
considerably. 1?TS have already received the first scores of UPKh-1.5 machines;
each machine has a productivity of 1.5 metric tons per hour, and each frees
three to four
---'. '. ::ccu?a
reason was that, while 35,400 kolkhoz workers ahould have been occupied with
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30 July. In the Stalingrad Kolkhoz in Namanganskiy Rayon, where alfalfa was
being combined+ 3 quintals of seed were being obtained per hectare.,(38)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1953 plan for
procurement of bay in kolkhozes of the republic:
alfalfa
l0 Jul (50)
Nat
20 Jul 49)
Andizhanskaya
21.7
ura
,tilfalfa Iiatura_ l0
Bu harskaya
18
8
39.6 1.5
ganskaya
Kara
-y
l
.
21.3
1.8
3.5
34.0 7.5
a
pakskaya ASSR
6.o
27.4 10.0
Kashka_Dar'insl?
a
a
!
0.8
10
0
,
y
Khorezmsl:aya
?
3.9
32.2
.
3.1
48
Ilamangansk
1
--
3
38.8
2
aya
19.9 .9
1
3
.9
3.1
Sumarkandskaya
Su
kh
333.2
.5
p74
25 0 2.
r
an_Dar'inskaya
33
6
4
40.3
33
Tashkentskaya
.8
6
.8
2
.
43.6
20
6
.
3
6
6.1
.
43.1 31.1
chikskiyUzNizh rproduction of best ^rops is concentratm i v _?t__ ..
the result that the area 1F1e plan for sowing of lut awL
sown to bast crony i e was not fulfiUe lled,'with
es
Kirgiz SSR
Grasses Sown Grasses Mowed
Plowed Ensilage All Grain Reaped by
1st Time 2d Tuna ~r a
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Frunzenslcaya
Issyk-Kul 'skayn
Oshskaya
Talasskayu
Tyan' -Shan'skaya
Natural
Grasses
Mowed
Dzhalal-Abadskaya 100.9
Frunzenskaya 60.0
Issyk_Kul'skaya 23.3
Ochskaya 110.9
Talasskaya
T an' 77.3
-Shan 'skaya 30.0
47.9
3.7
6.7
19.5
11.0
12
2
24.0
.
59.0
1.7
1.4
18.7
2.6
2:9
16.7
15 Jul (55)
5.95 59.3
12.92 24.4
56.8
6.71 90.3
2.11 37.7
73.1
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1. Moscow, Trud, 25 Jul 53
2. Moscow, Se1'sl:oye Khozyaystvo, 5 Jul 53
3. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 23 Jul 53
4. Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamya, 29 Jul 53
5. Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, 21 Jul 53
6. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 14 Jul 53
7. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 23 Jul 53
8. Ibid., 28 Jul 53
9. Ibid., 8 Jul 53
10. Ibid., 14 Jul 53
11. Ibid., 18 Jul 53
12. Ibid., 15 Jul 53
13. Ibid., 30 Jul 53
14. Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, 8 Jul 53
15. Moscow, Komsomol'skaya Pravda, 7 Jul 53
16. Moscow, Pravda, 18 Jul 53
17. Kiev, Pravda IDaainy, 14 Jul 53
18. Ibid., 18 Jul 53
37.6
45.4
22.3
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42-_ Ibid.., 1 Jul 53
43 Leningradskaya Pravda, 2 Jul 53
19. Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 23 Jul 53
20. Ibid., 28 Jul 53
21. Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 15 Jul 53
22. Pravda, 29 Jul 53
23. Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, 7 Jul 53
24. Pravda Ukrainy, 8 Jul 53
25. Ibid., 22 Jul 53
26. Ibid., 30 Jul 53
27. Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 2 Jul 53
28. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 26 Jul 53
29. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 7 Jul 53
30. Pravda, 28 Jul 53
31. Moscow, Izvestiya, 29 Jul 53
32. Pravda, 15 Jul 53
33. Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, 28 Jul 53
34. Ibid., 9 Jul 53
35. Leninskoye Znamya, 28 Jul 53
36. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 5 Jul 53
37. Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, 19 Jul 53
38. Leninskoye Znamya, 31 Jul 53
:.). Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, 1.6 Jul 53
40. Moscow, Zem'_edeliyc, No 2, Jul 53
41. Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, 24 Jul 53
45. Ibid., 14 Jul 53
46. Ibid., 17 Jul 53
47.. Ibid., 23 Jul 53
48. Ibid., 29 Jul 53
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50. Ibid., 15 Jul 53
51. Ibid., 27 Jul 53
52. Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistana, 23 Jul 53
53. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 8 Jul 53
54. Ibid., 15 Jul 53
55. Ibid., 29 Jul 53
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