COLLECTIVIZATION OF CZECHOSLOVAK AGRICULTURE

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R009600080001-1
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• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 15, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: December 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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Collootivization of Czechoslovak Agriculture
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10 Dec. 1951
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lm The "i iistry of A;7r'iculturc is vor~-- dissatisfied with the present devoloprrent.
of the ^,7i cultural. Cooporativaw (M)). In addition to the difficulties
corns cted 'v.1tI,i the foundation of thy: cooperatives, caused mainly by the
fact that the groat majority of faremers resists the rrerist:re of the Coverrrnnt
to join teem, there is a, decree of the ministry of Finance and Itinistry
of Agrculture..iich severely threatens the development of the Agricultural
Cooperatives. r`or?,erlya these cooperatives received high subsidies to
cover investment and. working expenses (sometimes almost 60 percent of the
purchase CGOS7,5 was t.:uvtruu uy bui 51t~1.C 5/ Lrom 'tn Ntiai.o 'treasury,, vincrea.S r'1oe1r
the farmers must a gjlire the money needed for investment and running expens ;a
by credit based on promissory note; and longterm loans rri th all mc:rtbers of
the Cooperative serving as guarantors. -hc fa.crs Boon realized the danger
of such a IaerBonal liability ar.c could well imagine that., becauuse of the in-
efficient operatiao of the .l&c'','ricuitural Cooporatives., trey would lose the
rest of their property" within a: couple of years. Prel: ?cinary inteSt:igations
carried out by the tate Bank showed that seventy percent of the :'-,gxicultura1
Cooperatives of the higher type will be operating at a loan; to the sane extent
as ti:ey did last year
2. Lccordinz.' to the plan of t3:zo "inistry of f:griculture the collectivization
of agriculture slyould be completed within three years by Earning cooperatives
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I'relir:linary sa rveys carried out by the ;state rank- also indicate t1int, tile
state-ownod estates villI close this year with a loss of t bill-ion Fes,
because :.iost of the people rcfusod to work for the wages set in accordance
wi.ti. the ; oviet system of Croup wrages,3 For that reason the state-ownod
estates have to pay the same wages as in 1950 which n hi h in com-
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