INDUSTRIALIZATION OF MACEDONIA PROGRESSES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000600280743-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 28, 2011
• Sequence Number: 743
• Publication Date: February 3, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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?n ].948 the rollowing new factories were built is Montenegro: the "Karpus"
Concr-ta Factory, the "Gore Delcev" Leather Factory, a nicotine plant, and ma-
chine shops is lsitel~, Stip, and Titov Ve1es. The fallowing old factories have
been anl;9rged: the ''Kuzma.n rosifovski-Pitu" Textile Mill, the "Micugin" Can-
nirg NRCtory, the "Treaka" Lumber 'r',aterprise, and oil plant. At presen? the
fo:.iowing enterprises ale being completed: the textile combine at Tetovo, the
~i7k combine at Titov Vales, the porcelain factory st Titov Vales, and others,
i'~e p*odlctiorl o~ cast metcl alone incrf'asad 13.pC' ~er~eat in 1949 na crm-
prraed tc 1945. In i9~+9 the chemical industry is pro4ucing ten timee, the cons+un-
c~r gooc?s inauati~g fi.8 tim?s, az' the textile industry ton times more than is
194!i: i:n 1949 the manufRCture of concrete sad semiconcretP products :screased
640 percQnt as compared to 19~s5?
Cooperatives have increased Prom 5 in 1y45, 26 in 194b, 95 in 1947, and
?36 ~ n '9tF8, to 800 is 1949 ? If tie namber of farms in 191-5 is tak.~n se X00,
it S.nc?~eased to 215 in 1947, sad tc 483 i.n 1949?
The Five??Year Plan for Macedonia provides for (1) as increase of electric
go~e.r from 7.7 million kilowatt-hours in 193 to 3G.7 million -kilowatt hours
in 1951, (2) the construction of power pleats with a total capacity of 10,800
kilowatts, sad (3) the electrification of all srez seats and at least 200 vil-
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Thy po?~.- plants built to date are: "Dusnica," "Capuncica," "Peaocaai,"
the Bitola power plant, and the large steam-electric power plant at Mad3ari near
Skopl~e, Shortly the hydroelectric paver plant at Zrnovka will be cau~le:Aed.
The Msvrovo?kydroe_ectric power combine, located at an e.ltitude of 1,300 meters,
will be the largest hydroelectric power pLunt in Yugoc]svia. Its capwc.'+y will
be one-third of the total capacity of all prewar Yugoslav hydroelectric power
pL4ats, In 1949 the production of power is 4.6 times greater than in 1939-
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ircrex:e cP 571,000 hectares eP pl~a!teci cress by 1951.. Of this 95,000.hactaras
a:e to be planted with industrial crops.
r~,o ?n nnnln- ~ni_inn t}fo T171Tf1~'P!r oP malal?ia caste decreased Prins. lD3,o00 in
1939, (32,000 in 196, 4?,000 in 197, and 9,~0 in 19u8 to b16 cases in i91o-9.
Due to reclemetion projects ?O,000 hectares oP aa~;ble lead havo becamme avwiLabla
in !~Iar_edcnia~. In manv areas the Pirst harvest has alreedq i~.airen place.
Education in I~ecedonie has also iffiproved. In 19b9 there arse 4`3~j aqP? ?,].?-
mentar;y schools tha.ta in 199, and the number aP students hea iacreased by l~3
pFrce*st. Fros the lireration to the present, over 140,OD0 ldacedoniana ~?e
levs~n?d to read and *~+rite.
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