MARCH 1952 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS REPORT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00415R011300050008-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 11, 2001
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: May 21, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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German Democratic Republic FDD Abstract
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MARCH 1952 AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS REPORT (German; 2 pp; 2 5X1A
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During March the price of eggs in HO stores was reduced from 60-70 pgennigs to 45
pfennigs each. This measure was necessary because of the shortage of packing materials for
eggs. The farmers have to store eggs in tubs, pans and even on the bare ground. This has
caused great losses, and in order to move the eggs as fast as possible, the price was reduced.
The potato situation is in an even worse state. There are hardly any supplies left to
feed the population of the GDR until the new crop is harvested. In some instances, potatoes
stored by private individuals have been confiscated and shipped to the cities. Seed potatoes
are even shorter in supply. It had been expected that seed potatoes would be exchanged for
potatoes for consumption, but since the farmers have neither kind left, this will be impossible.
The potato shortage is blamed on the fact that 100,000 tons of potatoes had to be shipped
to Poland and 50,000 tons to Czechoslovakia.
The meat supply situation id disastrous, for the simple reason that the farmers were
given delivery quotas which they simply cannot fulfill,
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21 May 1952
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