SOME DATA ON USSR CROPS AND HARVESTS AS OF FEBRUARY - MARCH 1951

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SOME DATA ON USSR CROPS AND HARVESTS.,
AS OF FEBRUARY - MARCH 1951
/Limbers n par=ntheaes refer tc appended sources.?
Armenian SSF
The cropped area in the Armenian SSR did not increase during 1949 - 1950,
but. the area sown with fodder grasses increased h9..1 percent, and the area
eevn with technical crops increased 3.6 percent over previous years., These
increcaeee were male tossible by curtailing the area sown with grains.
lr_:9`O Armenia produced only ?0 percent of the grain necessary for re-
public need.a. The ether 70 percent was imported from other republics. In
:951 it is planned tc increase the area sown with grains by 40,000 hectares.
In 1950, 5,2?L hectares of rye were sowed in Sisianskiy Rayon, while the
plan called for 1,500 hectares. The other land was to have been planted in
wheat, but the change was made without authorization by Ayrapetyan, secretary
of the Rayon Committee, and Meloyan, chairman of the Rayon Executive Committee.
In Martuninskiy Rayon. 1,682 hectares. were sowed in rye which were to have been
sown with wheat. This was done without authorization on the initiative of
Gevorkyan, secretary of the Rayon Committee, and Oganesyan, chairman of the
Rayon Executive Committee. The 1950 wheat sowing plan was not fulfilled by
Bayazetekt y, Idzhevanekiy, Noyemberyanskiy, and Shamahadinskiy rayons. In
these rayons the 'wheat area was curtailed in favor of barley. The 1950 wheat
sowing plan was also not fulfilled by Azizbekovskiy, Gukasyanakiy, and Ka-
fa.nskiy rayons.(1)
Azerbaydzhan SSR
In 199;0' the area sown with winter wheat in Azerbaydzhan SSR was 66,700
hectares above plan, and 153,300 hectares more than the area sown with this
crop in 1949.(2) Astrakhan-Bazarskly Rayon is the largest grain-producing
rayon :.n the republic, The 1950 wheat harvest in this rayon was double the
1940 harvest, and the 1950 grain-procurement plan was fulfilled 137 percent
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Tc. to el ,gible tc pert;cip;ate in the 1951 Ali.-Union Agricultural Exhibi-
ticn, kolkhoies in Azerbaydzhan must have attained the following minimum yields
ir, 1.950 (in centners per hectare). all grains 18, winter wheat 19, sprgton
wheat 17, barley 19, oats i8, millet 25, rice 45, corn (irrigated) 55, cotton
26, sunflowers 18, and potatoes 290-(4)
Belorussian SSR
A. regcrt fr_m Minsk states that a new fertilizer called AMB has been de-
veloped by the Al-, Union scientific-Research Institute of Agricultural M1-
crobioL_gy The new preparation was tested in 1950 on kolkhozes of the Belo-
ru=afar. SSF., and excellent results were obtained- potato yields were in-
creased by 50 centners per hectare, and grain yields by 2-4 centners per
nectare The new fertilizer is made from peat mass into which a heavy con-
centratioon cf useful bacteria is introduced. Preparation of AMB is very
inrie, ar_d. msy be done by the kclkhoz workers themselves. (5)
In 19;0 the Belorussian SSR cropped area was 94 4 percent of the pre-
"Jwar area (6), and the area sown w th buckwheat was up 61 percent over the
~ws.r figu-e (7)
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Fledged. 1951 crop yi-elds for the Belorussian SSR in centners per hec-
t, . a: e as ; 8
Flax Flax Kok-Sagyz
Grains Potatoes Fiber seed Root
as a:novtchi
15
175
4.5
4.5
--
0
B:truys'r:
15
180
4.5
4.5
4
3
Brest
170
4.5
.5
180
5
4.5
40
Gomel
_dnc
G:
17
u
180
1
5
4.5
5
4
4.5
4.5
--
0
s V,
M
1
5
7
..
8
2
gllev
Moogi
175
4.5
4.5
4
5
30
Mclodechct,:
145
180
5
,
180
h '7 c;
4.75
30
P le=a
1 5
i 5
180
4.5
3 5
4
30
Po1,ctsk.
1k
165
4,5
4
.5
4
75
--
Vitebsk
15
170
.75
.
Estonian SSF.
To be eligible to participate in the 1951 All-Union Agricultural Exhibi-
tion, kolkhczes in the Estonian SSR must have attained the following minimum
yields in. 1950 (in centners per, hectare);; all grains 18, winter wheat 16,
spring wheat rye 17, barley 18, oats 18, flax fiber 4.5, flaxseed 3.5,
sugar beets 250, potatoes 290, and fodder root crops 400.(g)
Georgian SSR
in aucwuu 17iv
w,atei wheat than in autumn 1949.(10) By 1 March 1951, 49,517 hectares had
been plowed for sowing with spring crops.. This is 19.5 percent of the 1951
plan for the republic.(ll)
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rlY,eat production in the Georgian SSR is to be increased so that by
1957 the *eutlic ~.ll be self-sufficient in grains. However, present grain
yields are low,. Part of this problem can be solved by in-roving scientific
agricultural techniques, but It is also neceesary to find a variety of grain
suited to local conditions in the republic. The UKrainka variety, which kol-
khozes sowed until the war, has a low yield. The spring wheat Dika Dzhava-
khetslcaya likewise has a low average yield In recent years, kolkhozes of the
republic have begun sowing the Dolls-Puri variety, which under equivalent
conditions has given up to twice the yield of the above-mentioned varieties.
Sowing cf Dolls-Puri began in 1945. In 1950 the acreage under this variety
was 8,236 hectares, and the average yield was 10 centners per hectare. By
contrast, the average yield of Dika Dzhavakhetskaya in the last 6 years has
never been above 6 centners per, hectare. If Dolls-Puri is sown at the proper
time (25 August to 10 September), given plenty of mineral or organic ferti-
lizer, and. the best of care, yields of up to 25 to 30 centners per hectare
may be obtained. This fall (1951) 12,000 hectares of Dolls-Puri will be sown
in Georgia. I:2)
In 1950 Georgian SSR tea-growing kolkhozes and sovkhozes delivered 8,'724
t-ns of prime-quality green tea leaves to the state. This was 48,334 tons
more than in 19h0, and 64,970 tons more than in 1945-(i3)
Kare'c-Finnish SSR
The Karelo-Finnish SSR did not fulfill the 1950 plan for the development
of agriculture, or the 1950 plan for procurement of agricultural products.(14)
are pledge for
The foiloving 1951 crop yields in centners per e 1he, hectare
the Karelo-Finnish SSR: all grains 5, potatoes
fodder root crops 135:(15)
'_Kazakh SSR
AKmoliiisk Oblast is the largest grain-growing Oblast in the Kazakh SSR;
three fourths of its cropped area is sown in spring wheat. However, in 1950
only 5 percent of the area sewn with wheat on kolkhozes, and 12 percent of
the area sown with wheat on sovkhozes was sown in Durum wheat.(16)
During the postwar Five-year Plan, the area sown with grain in Kokchetav
Oblast increased 22.4 percent and 50.2 percent of the increased area was sown
with spring wheat. In 1950 the Oblast gave the state 10 million more pud
of grain than in 1949.(17)
Kustanay Oblast exceeded the 1950 grain-procurement plan and gave the
state 1R million pud of grain more than in 1949.(17)
ha.tvisn SSR
In 1955 the area sown with flax in the Latvian SSR will be 46 percent
greater than the area sown with that crop in 1950. By that year planned
fiber yields will average 4.8 to 5.2 centners per hectare. In 1951 pledged
yields run from. 4.4 to 4,8 centners per hectare.(18)
Workers on kolkhozes and sovkhozes of the Latvian SSR have pledged to
raise grain yields to 22 centners per hectare, and to triple the number of
cattle and double the number of swine in the republic during the next 5
year-1.19)
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~~-Owing 1950 airplanes of the Civil Air Fleet were used to spread ferti-
lizer over a 2,450-hectare area. The fertilizer can be spread much more
evenly this vay than by hand and yields will be appreciably increased- In
1951 .it is planned to fertilize an area 13 times greater than the above-
mentioned figure by air..(c0)
Modavian SSR
To be eligible to participate in the 1951 All-Union Agricultural Exhibi-
ticii, .c1khcze in Moid.avta must have attained the following minimum yields
in 1950 ;in centr,ers per hectare):; grains :except corn and rice) 19, winter
wheat 20; rye 20, spring =heat 18, barley 19, cats 19, millet 25, buckwheat
15, rice 45; c.urn i.grain) 55 ;irrigated and 38 (unirrigated), cotton (irri-
gated) ?-6, '?ton {uri_rrigated; 7, sugar beets (irrigated) 450, sugar beets
UU, surf.lo.mrs 18, hemp f.ber 6, hemp send 4.5, and potatoes
_90...1)
In Vengercvakiy Rayon, Nevosib_rek Oblast, the cropped area has increased
by 16,90_: hectares, and the grcas grain harvest has doubled. since 1947 The
1950 grain harvest was ur 76 percent over 1940.1%22)
Tadzhia: SSR
The "Itti`-ok" Kclkho4; Dangarinakiy Rayon, Ku-yab Oblast, Tadzhik SSR,
has 2,100 hectares of land, of which 1,064 hectares are cropped. in 1949,
564 hectares were sr'n with g air,, and in 1950, 700 hectares.. The 1951
pledge calls for 750 hectares to be soya uith grain. The grain yield. was
11.5 centnera 'Eer hectare in 1949, 14 .5 in 1950, and the 1951 pledge is
1,
y'erevan, Kc, mDuniat, 21 Mar 51
21
Baku, Bak?nakly Rebechiy, 23 Mar 5i
3.
Scid 4 Mar 51
4.
Ibid., 7 Mar 51
5
Vii nyus, Sovetskaya I,itva, 30 Mar 51
6,
Minsk, Kolhhoznaya Pravda, 15 Feb 51
7.
Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 6 Mar 51
8.
Ibid., 7 Mar 51 24 Mar, 51
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Tallin, Sovetskaya Es
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Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 22 Max 51
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Ibid., 7 Mar 51
,12,
Ibid,, 30 Mar 51
13.
Ibid., 28 Mar 51
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Petrozavodsk, Leninskoye Znamya, 6 mar 5
15.. Ibid., 4 Mar 51
16. Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 22 Mar 51
17. Ibid , 31 Mar 51
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18. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 23 Mar 51
19. Ibid., 17 Mar 51
20. Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 30 Mar 51
21. Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 24 Mar 51
22. Moscov, Izvestiya, 6 Mar 51
23. Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistan, 6 Mar 51
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