THE LIVESTOCK SITUATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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• Publication Date: December 10, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT
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In March 1`950 the Czechoslovak Government ordered that all
State ~.str.,.tes (Statni sta,tky) (SS) must keep a stout of cat-
tle amounting to a total of 20,000 head. In the autumn. of
1950, this number .r s increased to 40;9.000 by order of the
Uovernment0 The 'State "stz-tes are to keep this stock at
the same level, reg;~aardless of the lose of cattle made avail-
ab e for ?~1r,ial;htering. The stock of pi ;s formerly wws fixed
at 200,000 and w.-.9 l.nter~ in the autumn of 1950, increased to
33(),,OOQ in connection with the establislunent of large pig
feeding stations called "Gigant"? However, the State 'states
did not succeed in -},.t tai.n1ng the prescribed number. The ac-
teal stock of mfrs numbers 230,000 with an average weight of
100 kg.
2 ~ Inde )endent farmers and Agricultural Cooperatives (Jedno'tne
zemedeiske druzetvo)(JZD) are not under. the obli ..tion to
mF_aintF-..n a certain number of cattle. The State Estates own
about half of the tot,-..I number of cattle in Czechoslovakia.
The rep: ion for the existing pork shortage lies in the fact
that the total stock of so-!as is 47,000 below the number called
for in the Government plans When Agricultural Cooperatives
were est,.blIshed, Loci l National Committees ailo.ied farriers
,.rho promised to join the Cooperatives to slaughter sows.,uhich
resulted in the great shortage of -sho6 s. In the sprint; of
1951, the i-iinistry of Food. Industry Issued decree prohibit-
ing the s]. ughter of sows but by then It enn.sr 'Goo late.
It will take a long time before the number of pigs again reach-
es the normal level, since independent farmers do not let the
so:~Ts become fully grown and the Agricultural Cooper,-Alves, be-.
cause of their small number, cannot handle the breeding of a
sufl'ici ent number of sb-us.
The shortage of causes difficulties 9w tile "Gigant"
pit;-feeding et,,'tionE, which cannot fulfill their plan. P'or
exanDle the "Gib; ?.nt" in S trice (0511 G 72) has only 20, percent of
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the number of 'sfoats celled. for in the plan. Aside from the
great short-age of eowc- and shoats , a further factor explain-
ing the insufficient number of pigs is the poor construction
of the pig-feeding stations, which ? ere built by the State
Estates with great publicity and in 3 great hurry. They were
o cold in winter thpt it was not possible to utilize than to
full capacity=, In t.xae coming winter, feeding is to be under-
takes on a larger scale, but only after reconstruction estima-
ted to cost 60 million Kes has taken place.
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