Feasiblility of Determining Current Crop Conditions in the USSR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP79T01149A000300060001-7
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 24, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: May 2, 1952
• Content Type: MEMO

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bom a mm. lfvv , the curr,
fty 1,952
the preas
a relatively narrow r
VMS in the MM.
tinol. .i fiend data are ava'
- ble d.atteess by whis
shims various .aR ' tagees
a i by region* the
oa .blee to determine uh er the
the t
dates for
months (for
vbereas the corm
to 10 I ust for Lower
will also be harvested
prepared show-
Ln the 1R tave
sow in the or gigs p e.
e, it via. bey po ble by following wea
date to predict at any pecified tive the staz
d*velo n t becomes incre in y
believed that near the being o
predict the & tag* of development within an
10 days. is the growing se progresses,
successively narrowed for as specified locality,
days. It should be stressed, hos,s3eaver, that
liana in the est#aate, it will be ne eesae ry to bav*
be possible to
plus or minus
rwigo may be
to plus or
obtain tine-
ant Weather
information -- T bab not more than a week l at the very t. It is felt
that mich an estimate, based on current t~her iixd"ora-tion, will be c aid-
earrably more reliable then e t to teed oa eves ies only.
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This range of estimation will dew on
In any specified rotion the, approximate
seeding o f t e n cover a period of 1
for spring t ee t in the ter V* 34,a) ,
in clover only about 3 weeks (20 July
crops , ovn later then effft-age
sh a uccessive stage of
It is
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