ECONOMIC - AGRICULTURE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600240913-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 7, 2011
• Sequence Number: 913
• Publication Date: August 10, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY
SUBJECT
Economic Agriculture
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
Ninui
C TVTT
PUBLISHED
Daily newspapers
DATE. D1ST./a Aug 1949
WHERE
PUBLISHED
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Hong Kong; K'un~xdng
26 Jan-7Jul l94I9
Chinese
NO. OF PAGES
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
3
TN's AOCVNINT CONYAIN( 111TMNIATON AFFECTING TNI NATIONAL 0911191
OF TOE VNITIO (TAMS W:7.1. TIE N11.1.0 01 NSFI*.A42 ACT 30
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Of T( CONYINTA IN ANY OANNIA TI AN VNAVTNONITON IINNCN IN FAO.
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SOURCE
ewspapers as indicated.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CCP, MU INTRODUCE BK1 T RL'7'iJCTION
The f ll.owing regulations governing rent and interest rate reductions
have been pronlg..ted by the Mel Bolen People's Ltv,mmvnt:
1. Rents paid by tenants to landowners in Nei Helen will be uniformly
reduced by 25 percent.
3. All share rents will be uniformly based on the actual amount of
annual harvest. Under the new 25-pertlent rent reduction, the landowner's
share will be one half the harvest minus 25 percent. For enamule, if the yield
anaunted to one ship Lone shih equalo'2.94 bushels], the landwner's share will be
5 ton Lane tow equals 9.4 dry quarts sinus 25 percent, or 3.75 tcu. All
original rents higher than this new rate it be readjusted, but those which are
lower may not be increased.
4. Based on the actual amount of thir. season's harvest, all contractual
rents will be reduced by 25 percent. The actual amount of the rent shall be
decided at a conference of repreeeatatives .f the landowners, tenants, and the
local government. Once decided, the rental rate adopted will be publicly
announced and everyone will be required to conform to it.
5. Additional reduction in rent may be granted to widows and dependents
of military personnel, poverty-stricken intelligentsia, dependents of overseas
Chinese, eta.. who are facing extreme hardship due to lack of works g personnel.
Rant reduct:t.r uay be effected by ritual agrewac:t run tha landowner and
tenant, or by government action.
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because the land had deteriorated or rents were excessive, the 25-percent rent
reduction mist be effected and. in no case may the landowner increase the rent
7. The rent of all lands, whether private-,public-,school-, or church
owned, used for productive purposes, shall be reduced by 25 percent and nc
tenants will remain in effect. Hwevero' the share to be turned over to the
landowners will be reduced by 25 percent.
9. Old contracts under which tenants were required to turn over liquors,
chickens, etc., to the landowners as token of appreciation are hereby voided.
10. After the enforcement of these regulations, the land rights of the
landowners vill be guaranteed and protected by the government. Landowners
may dispose of their land but the priority of purchase shall be reserved to
the tenants on the land. When faced with extreme hardship, the landowners may
11. landowners are forbidden extort additional rent from the tenants after
the enforcement of this regulation? or can the tanante reeitit payment -)f the
rent.
fret governed by the hmedship it will impose on the tenants.
demand the returns of a' portion of the land from the tenants for their own
cultivation. However, their right to regain possession of the land will be
12.. Violators of these regulations will be punished by the government.
B. Interest Rate
1. The annual interest rate on bane must not exceed 30 percent.
2. The interest rate for commercial loans is axe0t, from this regulation,
3. Any interest rate on loans exceeding this limitation must be readjusted,
but interest rates laver than this limitation may not he increased.
4. A borrower who has already made interest payment whose total equals
the original loan will be exempted from paying further interest. If the
amount of interest paid totals twice the original loan, the loan will be
autometioally cancelled.
5. In liquidating old debts, debtors are required to pay only the original
value of the loan, calculated in terms of commodities.
6. Loans not specifically covered in these regulations may be adjusted
by the local government in accordance with the general tenets expressed by these
regal .tionns .
TAIWAN TO EMPLOY REDUCED RENT SYSTEM -- Chang-i Pao, 26 Jun 49
Kuang-ohou, (CBA), 25 June 1949 -- The China Joint Rural Rehabilitation
Commission has announced that the Taiwan Provincial Government will employ
the so-called "37.5 percent" reduced rent system beginning with the first harvest.
Reduced rent is considered the first step in aiding Taiwan's agricultural
rehabilitst?.on.
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The reduced rents eyetem recogn zen that the nuprly ci eeede. nnime1B,toole
and fertilizers' needed in farming the land should be.furniahed by the joint
e farts oflandovner and tenant. The tenant will thus subtract 25 percent
of the harvest to be used for the purchase of these materials. The remainder of
the harvest will be divided equally, each side receiving 37.5 percent of the
total yield.
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