REPORT ON FALL SOWING CAMPAIGN IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700100445-5
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 24, 2011
• Sequence Number: 445
• Publication Date: February 6, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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SECURPl'Y INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FGREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
REPORT
CD NO.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
Romanis
Economic -Agriculture
Daily newspaper
DATE OF
DATE DIST6 Feb 1953
WHERE
PUBLISHED Bucharest
NO. OF PAGES
2
DATE
PUBLISHED 4 - 23 Oct 1952
LANGUAGE Rumanian
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
REPORT 02: FALL SOWING CAMPAIGN IN RUMANIA
Summary: Preliminary results of the fall sowing campaign,
which began in mid-September 1952, were highly inadequate. How-
ever, as a result oP agitation by party leaders and reg:une com-
mittees, the expected quotas were approached in some regiunes.
Numbers is parentheses refer to appended sources.
During the last weeks of September 1952, the regiunes leading in the
Rumanian .Pall sowing campaign were C1uJ, Aais-Mere, sad the Hungarian Auto-
nomous Regiune, all located in the northwestern part of the country. Ap-
proximately eight of the .-egiunes have had only mediocre results, while the
remsining seven, Arad, Timisoara, Bucharest, Ploesti, Barlad, Galati, and
Bacau, have ehovn extremely poor results despite an ample supply of tractors
end Favorable agricultural conditions. (1)
At the end of the first week in October, the Ministry oP Agriculture
reported that 29.6 percent of the country'e entire scving plan had been
completed. The Baia-Mare, CiuJ, and Hungarian autonomous regiunes were
ati.ll leading, Moreover, considerable progress had been achieved in Craiova
Regiune, There over 100,000 hectares of land were sowed during the first
days of October alone.
Othez? important results were registered in Suceava, Pltestl, Oradea,
and Hunedoara regiunes, where the percentage of Bowed land increased by 20
to 25 percent, .a comparison with t:>e preceding month. Unfortunately, Arad,
Timieoara, Bucharest, Constants, Galati, Ploesti, waft Barlad regiuaes still
showed great lags in the s~king program. (2)
Sowing campaign continued with increased activ'ty in the last 2 weeks
of October. The leadi~lg regiune was the Hungarian Autonomous P.egiune, which
has been the First to achieve 100 percent sowing. Almost the same successes
were achieved by Pitesti, Baie-Mare, Hunedosra and C1uJ regiunes, which com-
pleted $O percent oP their sowing quota. HoJever, the Canstanta, Galati,
Ploesti, Barlad, and Timisosra regiunes are still trailing badly, despite
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 drastic measures taken by party activists. Regions and rayon committees of
these reg!--.~es were strongly rebuked for the slow progress shown, and all
available labor forces were mobilized, in an attempt to complete the quotas
successfully. (3)
U Leading regiunes with over 90 yeraent of fall
scaring completed
Regiunes showing meiaiocre results in sowing
Regiunes trailing in sowing campaign
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