FACTORS HELPING TO INCREASE COTTON PRODUCTION IN CHINA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180459-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 459
• Publication Date: June 8, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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FACTORS HELPING TO INCREASE COTTON PRODUCTION IN CHINA
Jen-min Jih- no
Peiping, Jan 1954
(Stumnary: Many :;actors hav, holied to incres?_ cotton produc-
tion in China. The use of improv_d.,;eed, larger quantities of ferti-
lizer, insecticides, better implements, and c more genesa re:
__ on irrigation, have all contributed toward this increase in :;n
;roduc-
tion. More scientific methods of cultivation have also i.e!r:ed. A
good market for this cotton is assured by the greater production of
cotton yarn and cotton cloth in the mills whose number has been in-
creased by recent ccnstruction,)
In Chin,,, cotton :rodretion has :::err.esed vear by year. In 1949, the aver-
cotton production for it Chin,, was 21.4 c?itties of ginned cotton per mou
one mou equals 1/6 acre]. Within 3 ye^rs, in 1952, this average had risen to
.4 catties, an incr,.... _ of 46.7 core, ..
Increanod '!e l u1 by "b u:` _
th? Cer.tr:i Poop! 's 0ov:,rnr:eat has n-omoted the use of~betteri'cottonsecd,Osup-
plying a total of 310 mi.ilion cattier. By 1953, the acreage planted with better,
rr de fine-fibre cotton was 24 times that before liberation- This better grade
seed will produce from 10 to 20 percent mor' than the local variety. A survey
In 1951 of 12 important cotton-producin, hsien of Hopei Province showed that the
better-grade cottonseed produced averages of 96-118 settles of unginned cotton
while local varieties r;:,odued only 'l cstt.ics.
In th.r last fear year.. there has been a -grit :ncrea::e in the urn of oS.l-
seed-cake fertilizers :.nd chemical fertilizer.:. It i
half the cotton rcrengc in all China usee oil-se,.d_ estimated that more then
In the Northeast one-third of t.h., cotton
fields. f ~ ::m}`si';onindum ehOul ful fertilizer:.
r-; r:? iut rittfuL: on their
rpr'ryng and dust'nr; tine h-_110 in-;-,, ?, a?"r?t on. Within i11
government has u lied mor, r ryears t.1
rP 600,000 :tens of snri^in;
the government supplied 79 million c:~ttle:, of insecticide:. and 3R0,000 In ers.
It is cstimatb d that by _;uch meraur,,s sproners.
the ,, in 1,)51 L end 1 bout one million
picula of ginned cotton from loss by inc~?,?ta in 195 :.nd 1952.
In cotton cultivation the use of better plows f,+