COMMENTS ON THE 1946 AND 1947 HARVEETS

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Publication Date: September 23, 1947
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U. S. 0IFICIALS ONLY
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE GROUP
INTELLIGENCE REPORT
COUNTRY ,uumv (Russian zone)
SUBJECT .,:dints on the 1946 and 194?7 Hanrves
DIST. A& September 1947
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SUPPLEMENT
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~~eti~re rem for the food vear 1 Sul, ?1 4 2g June?
the following were the estimated deliveries for 1946/47:
Grain
Potatoes
2s650,00O tons (of ,which 20% were oats and barley)
59600,000 "
Sugar
450,000 "
meat
110,000 "
Vegetable oil
12;070 "
Animal fate
9,000 "
ISilk
(Satter
1,300,000,000 late . s, incl. milk for butter production.
10,000 tones.
2. kl.though the 1946 harvest attained only about 65% of the average pre-war level,,
-;' quotas for the above deliveries were so strictly enforced that they were
et to the following extent:
Grain 95%, potatoes 96%, sugar beets 90%, milk 9 , meat 100%.
The result, however., of the rigorous collections was that there was a shortage of
cattle fodder and seeds and insufficient bread grain for the farmers thease . +es.
It should be noted that all families engaged in agriculture in the Russian
go without food cards and must subsist on the free margins: i.e. hat is le t
t 'ter the obligatory deliveries. This has led to the touching of -forth rose.-?4res
,.d the necessity of issuing food cards to scarce peasants. Seed reserves an.
,rider reserves have also been drawn upon,
The allocation of seed for grain and potatoes was inadequate in the spring
Altogether,, about 50,000 tons of grain and 300,000 tons of potatoes had to be
loaned against undertakings to return these to the seed stocks obtained for the
1947 crops, Nevertheless, allocations were frequently belated, especially in
the case of potatoes, so that a normal yield cannot be expected - -the more to
since no attention was paid to sorting. If these disadvantageous consequence e
are for the moment disregarded, it `will be seen that the forecasts made one rear
ago were on the mole correct( i.e., with a net yield of about 2,400,000 tonne of
,read grams, and requirements of the population being from 1,600,000 to 1,'700,000
towns on the basis of current ration allc nces,, there remained 7W,000 .. -SOOtq()d
tons for Russian use.
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bein; : taken by the occupation forcesj by the manufacttu a ~r oln starch
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the s Sr i.1. po*)ulation had had quite inadequate quant7 ?~ jcs or ,1nfa'~oes urirl ?
, months, partly because the 100 kg per head stock for the :inter Z.as
used up too soon, causing only a nartial.
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