CENTRAL AND PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS SET PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURAL GOALS FOR 1951

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• Publication Date: April 12, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO,
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950 - 1951
DATE DIST. 1A Apr 1951
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
COUNTRY china
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
WHERL hanghai; Fetping; Cantony Hong Kong NO. OF PAGES 4
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PUBLISHED 17 Dec 1950 - 8 Max 1951 SUPPLEMENT TO
LANGUAGE Chinese REPORT NO.
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CENTRAL AND PROVINCIAL GOVERI26NTS
SEl rxOUicaSSIVE AGRIC'L'flf'JRAL GOALS FOR .951 The Government Administration Council of the Central People's
Pepublic has set agricultural and forestry goals for 1951 at 107.1
percent of 1950 production for food, 6.9 percent for cotton.
Afforestation goal is set at 2,200,0 mou LI mou is 1/6 acre7.
The longer an area has been liberated1the larger is its production
quota
Iraanzttung provincial authorities have set goals for agricultural
production ranging from 5.2 over 1950 for food crops to 47.1 percent
increase for cured tobacco. The food crop,ingrrease called for amounts
to the equivalent of 5,411,000 tan of rice. fl tan is 133.33 pounds?
Irrigation and flood prevention projects to benefit about 20 million
mou LL mou equals 1/6 acre7 are called for. Controlled cutting of
50,000 cubic meters of timber, is planned.
In Chahar and Suiyuan, 49,million mou of winter wheat have been
experimentally planted and 33 million mou were planted ln'the north-
west. Areas planted in wheat in North China have been reduced to
permit for greater cotton cultivation in 1951. Government seed loans
in East and Central China amount to approximately one-fourth the
entire amount seed required. Use of improved seeds and seeds treated
against disease is encouraged. Improved fertilizers are also being
adopted.
Thirteen types of Soviet horse-drawn farm machinery, used in soil
preparation, planting, cultivating, and harvesting, saved much human
labor and reportedly increased yields in the Northeast during 1950.
Tobacco culture in Shantung is being revived. In 1950, an acreage
of 191,700 shah mou pruAuced 26,317,700 phis chin of tobacco r ehih
mou equals 0.1647 acre and 1 ehih chin equals 1.1 pound.
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Tah grain for autumn 1950 is reported nearly all collected in most
parts of the country. Kwangsi reports only 20 percent collected. Much
damage to tax grain resulting from faulty handling and storage is re-
ported from South and Central China. Many millions of catties are in-
volved.
ICr1ANGTUNG AUTHORITIES SET SPRING PLANTING GOALS -- Canton Nan-fang Jih-pao, 8 Mar. 51
The Kwangtung Provincial Authorities have set agricultural and afforestation
goals for 1951 to implement the national goals set by the Government Administrative
Council. of the Central People's Republic. In view of the improved military
and political conditions in the province, as compared with 1950, a general in-
crease in agricultural production can be expected. Comparative goals for 1951
production are as follows:
Increase Over
1950 (in *)
5.2
Food crops
Sugar cane
18.5
Cured tobacco
47.1
14.8
Hemp
25.
Silk
41.2
Rape
Work animals
3.
The total goal for food production increase in 1951 over 1950, reduced to
term3 of paddy rice, is 5,411,000 tan.
In the Tung, Hsi, Pei, and Han river valleys, sufficient flood prevention
work should be carried out to protect 18,863,923 mou from flooding. In the
river valleys of Kwangtung, 623,000 mou should receive similar protection. Small-
scale irrigation and drainage projects are planned to benefit a total of 1,570,000
mou.
The forestry program calls for protection of the present forests and groves
on newly distributed land, new afforestation of 160,000 mou, and the controlled
cutting of timber for 50,000 cubic meters of lumber.
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WINTER WHEAT BEING TRIED IN NEW AREAS -- Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao, 18-Dec 50
In Chahar and Sulyuan provinces, 49 million mou of land have been experiment-
ally planted to winter wheat during the autumn of 1950. In the Northwest, 33
million mou have been planted to winter wheat. In some of the older winter-
wheat-produciug areas of North China, the wheat acreage is less than last year
because many farmers expect to plant increased acreages of cotton-in-1951. Wheat
seed loans by government agencies for autumn planting in East and Central China
have amounted to 180,100,000 catties, a sufficient amount of seed to provide for
one fourth of one third of the total need sown in the areas affected.
In Pingyuan and Shansi provinces, promotion of improved seeds, such as
"No 438" and Pi-yu, has resulted in the sowing of 57 million catties of these
seeds. In East China and the Southwest, 9,100,000 cattles of improved seeds
have been planted. In all areas, much of the planted seed was treated against
disease. Rust-free fertilizers and greater use of fertilizers should considerably
iIICrCabr. the tJt.. of ,..inter wheat harvested in 1951.
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SOVIET FARM MACHINERY SUCCESSFUL IN NORTHEAST -- Shanghai, Hsin-wen Jih-pao,
18 Dec 50
Mukden, 16 December (Hsin-hua) -- Over 3,300 items, including 13 different
types of late-model Soviet horse-drawn farm machinery -- seeding, cultivating,
and harvesting implements -- have been successfully employed during 1951 on
state-operated farms, agricultural training farms, and by selected mutual-aid
groups in Manchuria. The mutual-aid groups using this machinery had the benefit
of advice from government technicians.
The superior efficiency of Soviet machinery over the old native types was
well demonstrated, especially in the matter of deeper and finer cultivation and
the saving of manpower In some areas, production per mou was definitely in-
creased by the use of the new machinery.
TOBACCO CULTURE EXPANDS IN SHANTUNG -- Shanghai, Hsin-wen Jih-pao, 25 Dec 50
Modern tobacco culture in Shantung began in 1912 when British and American
tobacco interests found good conditions for it in certain hsiens there. Later,
the Japanese entered the field. The record of acreage and production for selected
years is as follows:
Acreage
(shih mou)
Production
shih chin
Year
356
28,000
19 8
123,180
21,400,000
1935
301,614
80,322,800
1941
129,649
15,178,933
1949
144,732
16,524,210
1950
191,700
26,317,700
At present, production is chiefly in 11 hsiens along the Tsinan-Tsingtao
railway line. The projected acreage for 1951 is 400,000 shih mou, which, at an
estimated 160 shih chin per mou, should yield 64 million shih chin.
REVEALS SPOILAGE OF TAX GRAIN -- Peiping, Jen-min Jih-pao, 17 Dec 50
Serious inroads on the tax grain supplies through faulty handling have
occurred in a number of places this autumn. The following statistics are
illustrative:
t'nNra ,0Fi?il9AI
VVt~^ 1WIn o~ Y 4678.
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Kwangsi
(yang-shuo Hsien)
Eastern Szechwan
(Chiang-?ching Hsien)
C0HFiD--LjTL
Quantity
42 million catties
2 million catties
(nearly one fourth
of the amount stored)
Weevils, sprouting,
mildew
Large quantities in Mildew
various areas remount
unspecified]
MUCH TAX GRAIN DAMAGED IN CENTRAL AND SOUTH CHINA -?? Hong Kong, Wen-hui Pao,
25 Jan 51
Hankow, 24 January -- Because of rainy weather during the harvest season
and the haste urged by the grain tax collection cadres in Central and Southeast
China, a great deal of damp grain was put into the grain depots. This grain is
now heating and becoming weevil infested. The Military and Administrative
Committee of Central and South China has had to issue a directive to all those
charged with the care of tax grain warehouses to do their best to get this
damaged gain dried out as quickly as possible and give carefur attention to
granary ventilation.
FARMERS THROUGHOUT NATION TURN IN TAX GRAIN -- Shanghai, Chteh-fang Jih-pao,
17 Dec 50
Peiping, 17 December -- Farmers in Inner Mongolia, the Northwest, and the
Southwest have been bringing in their tax grain from autumn crops with alacrity
and collection has been practically completed in all these are. .
In Central and South China, approximately 70 percent of the autumn tax
grain had been turned in by the end of November. In Hunan and Kiangsi, the
delivery was entirely finished. In Kwangsi, only 20 percent had been turned
in.
In Chahar, tax grain deliveries were entirely finished during November.
In Hopeh, the people have organized grain protection squads to make sure
that there will be no loss of grain to KMC special agents.
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