EXPANSION OF ORGANIZED AGRICULTURE IN CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180456-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 456
• Publication Date: June 4, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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ORICi?i'RRt 1. CO(lr 11T V?'; M;Y EXCEED 40,000 -- Peiping, Ten-min Jih-pao, 15 Jan 54
L: Decerr.b r 1953, pretimtnary plans for development of the activities of
;rieularrel ; ?nc?;;^r,;,;, ;,uoper?atives during 1954 were drain up. The number of
c:r natives .,11 be in^rea;ed to 35,800 and may exceed 40,000.
lccordi.r.:.; ro , r? _ ::t '_,cal plans, in old liberated areas each ch'u and. some
tacg rr.r :rt up p ovi-i?-,nll cooperatives. In newly, liberated areas, except
a vi;r fo??: hsrc;:e where an arl,:yuate foundation is lacking and provisional
,0operativcs ere u:mpcrr 1i,y canned, each hsien may establish one to three pro-
,it onal one, . t e ., ;rr.e of these areas, because of local experience,
at the ch'u level.
In 1i5~, or;;1:?!- c n, households will exceed 50 aercc:rt. of the total. In
the Northeast, all households wil' be orgauicc,:, 40 current of which
ha in al'_- ?=r. ::rc is :aid teams. In North China, 70 sercent of farm house-
W1 'I b e:hich 145 percent will be in all-year mutual ri?itews. In
. CU OIATiVi:;? Sc'i It T:; '.:'101"IA1v, -- Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao, 14 Jan 54
!lsi^n and three ch'us of +.u-ch'ang Hsien, Sungkiang
ov im e , l'. r:t,ri cal' anal p, .eduction cooperatives were initiated in 1953. In
h-::- li;:?a,:, . _a?, c. v :, c.?Faeved an average production of 1,200 chin
00 :hi:. "core than neighboring mutual aid teams. The six
?,opeatives in r!...? were -equally successful.
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p??rcent. of farm ^uusei;ol L; :;hii.a nave been
verc in agricultural production: cooperatives.
ac') and 273,J00 households, rest ctirel~. This
^t over 195='. In 1`963, the :.urber of co-
n 1!:, (not includin0 I+,Ou ::pontane-ousiy
arc, and more than 70 percent were mcrnbers of
ai:i tuftnas.
apt, ? ;.:caa.; north C:,ir:a, cx,.e than 50 per-
ll _ , .,?.:e_a , !?', -uer -cut; Ccutrul-South, 30 percent;
a:- 55 percent and 19 r.e.-cent, respectively; in
percent; and In the .,outhwest, 50 percent and 17
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KIRIN Jan To SET UP 1,500 PROVISIONAL COOPERATIVES -- Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao,
17
Leadershipagriculturalorgansproductionof KirincooperativesProvince haveby anothe deciderd 1,500. increaast the present
1,158,500. Las autumn, 85
percent of the farm households of Kirin were organized. There were 22,575
households participating in agricultural production cooperatives, 2.1 percent
of the total number of farm households in Kirin.
As of 25 December 1953, a total of 1
part in all-year mutual aidte
ams wished , to 370 beco me households agric in 17 hsiens taking
agricultural prod a uctionng
on
tives
more
In Hupeh Province,
to be started in
than 520.
the
1954
prospective number
will be increased
of agricultural production coopera-
from the 275 originally planned to
NORTHEAST TO ESTABLISH 7,700 COOPERATIVES -- Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao, 5 Jan 54
Preliminary plans for the Northeast call for the establishment of 7,700
agricultural production cooperatives in the spring of 1954. This is 1.5 times
the present number. In 1953, a total of 4,043 provisional cooperatives were
set up at ch'u level, an average of 2.5 per ch'u.
HAITIAN ISLAND TO ESTABLISH COOPERATIVES -- Hong Kong, Ta Kung Pao, 8 Jan 54
By the end of March 1954, Hainan Island will have set up 25 provisional
agricultural production cooperatives.
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