ECONOMIC - CONSUMERS' GOODS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600250162-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 5, 2011
• Sequence Number: 162
• Publication Date: August 30, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASS], ATION
CENIR.AL INTELLIGENCE I EETCY REPO
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCAST CO ? O.
COUNTRY Yugoslavia,; Albani..
SUBJECT Economic - Consumers' goods
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
rJBLISHED Belgrade
DATE
PUBLISHED 9 - 14 .;a1 1949
LANGUAGE Seruo--0rcatian
DOCUfINi CONTAIN/ INFORMATION AIVICNNO TIIa NATIONAL 011113Ia
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SOURCE
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1949
DATE DIST. 3gAug
NO. OF PAGES
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
MORE PROJICA' ON BELGRADE MATRMT -- Barba; No 165, 13 Jul 49
The vegetable supply on the Belgrade market is better than ever. Whereas
385 carloads of vegetables were shipped into the city in Juts 1946, 391 in
June 1947, and 479 in June 1948, 742 carloads arrived in June 1948.
The main source of supply for Belgrade is state and cooperative farms.
Vegetables from private farmers do not affect either the total euppiy or
prices.
Variety has improved and prices are low. The price of potatuey Lac
fallen recently from 15 or 16 dinars per kilogram to 12 or 14 diners for
good young potatoes, while good beet greens can be bought for 8 dinars
per kilogram.
In June not a carload of vegetables had to be shipped to Belgrade from
any other republic. This above a great improvement over last year.
Over 60 carloads more of fruit were shipped into Belgrade this June
than last, in bpite of the heavy damage caused by pests.
the milk supply has also improved. Belgrade children up to 2 years of
age receive one liter of milk per day, the others half a liter. Children
from 2 to 7 also receive j lt ter of yogurt every day without coat. large
quantities of milk are distributed to workers employed in the heaviest
work.
As a result of efficient livestock purchasing, the full ration of meat
has been distributed during Ju:Le and July.
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dinars per kilogram for beet greens, compered with 20 30 dinsrn today
from state' and cooperative enterprises. These prices could be 36ksreds'Ftill
dinars per kilogram, compared with 20 dinars today, while stoteepd 4*0
future crop-purcLasing enterprises w*.11 buy hens" eggs from producers
at an average tied price of 150 dinars per hundred eggs.
Hereegnovi -- 7olunteere working an the regulation of the, Sutorina River
include a brigade of 64 Albanian emigrants who fled to Tugoslevia after the
Coninform resolution.
These refugees report that, consumers' goofs are prastioally nonexistent
in Albania, while textiles and bread are in extreuely short supply. For
one kilogram of salt, an Albanian suet surrender 4 kilograms of meat and
cheese. Forxerly, when Yugoslavia and Al1.ania were on norss.l tsrsa, one
kilogram of salt cost only 3 lek. One ordinary sandal costs an Albanian
peasant 3 kilograms of lard, 300 eggs, and 450 lek. One liter of kerosene,
which used to cost only 9 lek, now costs 3 kilograms of wool.
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