AGRICULTURAL AND LIVESTOCK ECONOMY OF THE CENTRAL SHENSI PLAIN

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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 27, 2013
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: March 29, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION ~EPQ~
Agridultural and I.ivestook Economy of the
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2\ Yihoat. ThM'BOu oi' Kvranohlsng ie very i'ortilo, t2io rainfall modorato, and tha
maj~r,~l~ood arop''fo wh?ate The uverago wheat yiold per }.c'ri,~.,^c~:i::t~rrihoi?:.~ ~.~. c~?Li..iu~~
Tharp ia~normally a whoat surplun in Hwsnchung, part of which ie ohippod to Shen-pui
(Northorn Sheaei',Provinoo) and part to Ronan rovinco. During lYorld 17ar II whoa
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In 199 whoa a )enact pesti:.e o? combined with drouth to destroy more
half the Kwanohung wheat crep~ A aer~oua fi~mine resulted. There have bean
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there wore a half million sold etc in the area, Kwanchung meat production
urea suffioieat to feed them aI ,plus the civilian population, but thwira
waa no surplus for shipmo~t ei,erhorsd Locusts urn a oontinuing miser threat
to the wheat orop but the onl heav-~ loss from locusts in tenant years~~o~ red
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orop and the losses rrom rust averugda~~~~ you r~?~~--- --_- ~---
late 1840s rosoaroh was being conduotQd at the Collage of 6griculturellin Wukung,
ensi on inoreas the rus -resiatanoe of'Bwanohung wheat 50X1-HUM
Corn. Corn is grown in Koran= f~~~ mainly for liveatook fend but some ioi? the
orop is seat to Shen~pei for human fold. Kiranohung people eat corn oinly
during the oooaeional poor wheat yearn and sometimes dust before the wheat
harvest whoa'+ouaehold food s~ooks are running lax. There is not o~aotly a
oorn bolt in gwanohung, but aro is pomething rather like it in the upland
region north of the tAoi Rimier. The corn old per hectare averaged a 1lttle more
than tyro thousand nettles. the Kwanohun oorn orop suffers FnX'I _I-II Inn
neglibiblyfrom disease and p stLenoe atxl wue not the sub~eat 50X1-HUM
oY any rosoaroh at the Agricu tare) C~lloge in 1Kukung.
81oe. The only tine grown in Kvraachu~g is groin in the outskirts of Sinn
for purely )noel cone ion Tha average yield is ?.500 nettles par hectare.
There was no evidenoe that the agrioultual rdsearohars in lti.~.icung 50X1-HUM
wore iatarastod in tine.
do.rden ore e. The favorite g rdon orlops is K~ranohung are soybeans, potatoes,
and ot. A farmer with to h~ct?r~e wi1l~aCuelly, plant on_e or one ~ end a half
hectare to garden crops. ricw ere in Kirahchung is there' any coffiaeiyoe ~n t?ieae
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ospeoially Yleinan Eeien and H~uayin Haien, produaos moat o u? _T
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Bwanohung ootton,'the only firs orop of the area, is regarded by imry- people
ae the beat in China. Tho area ai.rng the Wei River between Sian and T'unglcuan,
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ones having a oombined totar of abcu~ Fifty thousand operating spindles.
Tyro of the largo mills wore 31an and~eo~in Paoohi. Tha smaller m111s
worn divided bet-weon Sian an~Ku~ayoz; n~ Paoohi. Tho ootton fields
aro irrigntod from the Wni vor ar.d the only sor~ioua 50X1-HUM
lessee to the orop Yrom ar~,y~auae in resent years ooourrod during ~ovor.-1
dry yearn in the 1930e befcr ~ the irrigation system had boon dovolopa,i to
its prosoat aaoelienoe. tan Cello 0 of A rioulturo la Nukuns was 50X1-HUM
doing some rosoaroh on soften
the Swanohung ootton waa ar. o tad to Haukow cnd Shen ai and, during) Ithe war
yenta, to the larger oitiea sixty
poroent of the ootton wr+r; bei cons d looally and the romai or waa boir~
scut to Seoohuan Provinoe b~? ruck acid wagon, and to Shanghai by airplono.
Thorn woro0i'our largo mills ~.n Kwwnvhung and four or five omoller 50X1-HUM
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The hogs mere raised only for pork. The only iafeotious disease math mhi~h
the hogs mere troubled was sonte?;;hiag known loaslly as "swine ever", a
I~minor ailment which caused lass of appetite for two or throe days. The
spread of inPeatious disease among the livaetook of Kiranohung~ inns diffioult
baoauae of the distribut;on of animals in groups of two or three among
individual farmers..
8. ~Cattls. there were less cattle than hogs in Bmanahung but more
loo a then sheep. Thv cattle were raised mainly for draft a~aimals but
(were ooaseioaally alaughtorod for looally ooueumed beef. There was no
,milk or dairy produotiono Kwanahung oattle more valuable ro artier of
. 'their ormare and reoeivad axcolle~at oars.
9. ~ISheep. Sheep mere raised only in the northern part of Kwanohu~g, partly for
imutton and partly for tho skins. Prier to World 1Tar II thorall had been some
~mool production for expert, bs vrere stopped during t~a war and
(never resumed after the w ~r~ there was very little wool production
in Kwanohuag. ',
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e ma or crops mere et anal ,
ipo a oea and et porridge vras tho basin food of most of the people.
~~No cotton was being groin cad the olothing shortage was 9arir!?s. .The
Communists had forced the farmers to plant opium, eapooially ~.n tho erne
around Yonaa. Thera was Cary little liveatook cad tho only ahPer sere in
,the north noar Yulin. Corn was bainb brought is from Kwanahung, Sulyua,n
Province, and Shansi Province to supplemont the local food produotion. Tho
(land redistribution had decreased the sa.za of farms to tho polls inhere they
~oould not support a faaily, and there was no fortiliaor.
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