SOVIET AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION AS REVEALED IN SOVIET BROADCASTS

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000500730035-9
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• Document Creation Date: December 21, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 4, 2003
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: November 30, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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i94' h#1R? .t ti. tatiffit as culle'd from Soviet brondcastn,, the following are
also worth noting'f
Cultivated area has r ached 82 percent of the pro-war level.
"Tractor and ot;ser Ag ricultural machinery op~srations (were carried out)
over an area greater 30 million hectares than last yearn o."
IlThe ltharkov Region,. o_.deJ.iverod' to the State 12 million more 1,oods of
grain than it had derjv{ red i;n the nloCt proeperoat; pre-war year3?te
The plat, for sowing w tier erheatl bas been accompliobed by 108,:6
percent. "The Ukraine pan non 1,272,)000 acron of winter wheat than
it did last autumn?"(zt is also reported that "the sown area of
1947 to 8 million hectares greater than ever before,")
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mill,: and butter d,,livexieo by aubsat.tuting for theso products others. lens vmluable.,"
PRAVDA orders lec:al orfici.als to correct this condition by conducting, "a check i.i every
farm (e.s to) hon? milIr and butter r,nli'reriea are being made, to stop the squandering of
silk brought en from collectiv?. c.nrl state farms, to increPae the control ovsr thsli
etivitiee+ of State procurement ort;srsa, and to enforce the tax-?payyinp diQcipline'!among the
persona who delivor milk,"' (27 October 1947)
C. Livestock Breeding "hinter in ap-hroaohing. The rcont important period for the live-
stock brepcere is coming't PRAVDA reminds an 14 October, "The failure to f ulfil'~ the
livestock--breeding plane by one or another station may be ascribed mainly to the 'failure
to provide the necessary condition.. -'or wintering the stock,," In the editorial from
rhich it is quoted, PRAVDA indicates the emphasis given to livestock breeing in Communist
agricultural planning; "Recently, the Pranidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR
established h;gh av,erd3 for the workers, of the Leduntry, By this act, the Soviet'
Government proved that the livestock tnduotry is one of the decisive, vital branches of
the national econongr," That the industry as a whole is still behind pre-f;ar levels,
however, is explicitly recognizedi "The February Plenum o0" the Communist Party,,,, outiined
plans (which) contain a broad programs for tr..e re.Jtoration and the further development
of the socialist livestock indLintry," In lqTff- e th pre-war level,..., must be; reached
and. surpas:3ed," In addition, "it must be. stated frankly that In a number of regions the
livestock industry is still in the stage of a second-class industry. As e result.1 they
are definitely lagging behind the general level of development mchiev"d b;; the industry
as a whole," "Daily propaganda" among, livestock workers, is ordered as paart o2 the
overall campaign to "popularize" the government awards.,
d The Cotton Crow Cotton pickers of Uzbek and Knzakh are re=minded thet October Is a
"r?acirsive+t month in the program for "upswing" in cotton production, The cotton harvest
this year is "fine,," PRAVDA says? according to a 4 October Moscow broadcast; in Uzbek?
the"main cotton-?t,rowing Republic.,," it is "ass goad as the outstanding cotton crop of 1941"
As ueualo however, PRAVDA note, that Party of iairsg ere negligent in their or, anization
of the cotton-picking work, "The tempo of cotton-picking In the (Uzbek) is intolerably
olds," Leaders fa.-led to "mobilize reserves" end thereby ner;lectrd'prepa-ation for late-
ripening plants.. For there. same reasons, "Knztilchstan? too, is lagging behind.." In
order to overcome the la,(; and cntch up n{ th this cork that, watt done" PRAVDA orders 'a
five-day collection campaign for the picking and delivery o+' the raw cotton,,..,., To prevent
leas and spoilage of Pour cotton, w,..rk must be organized in such a manner that all the
picked cotton is immediately rushed to the State delivery centers?"
V, Potato and Vegetable Procuremontk Among the faults a2AVDA finds in the vegetable
procuremment progxrzm are& n~"u1^.erouts instances" of waste because of neglieenee. Collective
farmers are guilty of leaving, the vegetables too long in the fields,, where- they are
endangered by frost; rural administrators neglected. to provide s?torege space, and machine
tractor stations failed to provide transportation, Railway managers, finally,, are'
criticized for fai3Ing to provide enough cars? or ,for sending such poor care that they
cannot be used, (,'.h0 Ssp,:enfber 2947)
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Some of the soot graphic illustroti.ons ::f thi i.rrnrirtrinr~ accorded p'r?rsin collection
(as rell as food collection programs in [~ n rvi1)) In Soviet n lraining ore .to be found
in the variety of disciplinary nea;su;-?es that pre ward to ensure the delivery and
atorago of the Staters full quota of ;3?roduceo SisnulLanee,?-.s y with reported
'preud ?r%cultural succnssen, domestic :::-oar', cast natorial tnc?_c-tee that tha Party
is still aeeting pith a certain amount of recalcitrance and non-:cooperation from
eeK;ent8 of the rural populp.tion, and that, in addition, the buroaucrt:cy attached to
the collective fauns hap not operated with d.~rAred dxr,pptch and Pffii,iency in pro-
moting achievements of pdoCCOSrts object';iv-c~ Theac indications are espeeieil-
evident in broadcasts erinrir.'j.nr fro?s l.ocr_r Soviet tranamittera and addressed to
regional Soviet auc: iences'.1
To counteract this recalcitrance, apathy and bureaucracy, the Party has used and it)
szsing four main tactics (1) rigid anforcoment of existing regulations, and extension
of legislative regulation; L2) creation of ne; control bodier, both Party and non-
Party; (3) reorganinati.on of ruraX lender hip; and (4) constant use of props ancla and
the establishment of individual and &Toe.p inc2nLivee for high achievement,
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