RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN USSR FOOD INDUSTRIES

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CLASSIFICATION Crn1Ft~PIAL
SECURITELL IGENY INFORMATION
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CENTRAL
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USW
SUBJECT Economic - Food industry
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PUBLISHED Daily newspapers; monthly, bimouchly
WHERE periodicals
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED SOP 1951 - 30 Mar 1952.
REPORT
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Expansion and Construction of Food Enterprises
Labor-consuming operations in the USSR food industry were 50 percent mech-
anized in 1951- The quantity of refrigerating unite increased five times
over prewar. (1) The Ministry of Food Industry Belorussian SSR installed and
put in operation 544 units of technological and steam equipment in 1951. Labor
productivity in the republic increased 11 percent as compared to 1950.(2)
Planned construction work of the beer-brewing industry of the Moldavian SSE
includes construction of a brewery and expansion and increase of production ca-
pacity of the Kishinev and Bendery breweries. (3) New wine and beer-making en-
terprises of the Armenian SSR will be put into service in Yerevan, Alverdi, and
at the Sovkhoz imeni Yikoyan in Echmiadzinskiy Rayon durir.l 1952.(4)
are Machines which completely mechanize the production of barankas ,cagelsj7
being introduced to enterprises of Glarkhleb (Main Administration of the
Bread-Baking Industry). (5) In the Moskovs:iy District of Riga, Latvian SSE, a
,V,nec'bread baking plant (khlebo;avod) has been put Sn operation. Planned pro-
duction capacity of the plant is 40 metric tons of bread a day.(6) Construction
plans or the bread-baking industry of the Moldavian SSR are as follows: to con-
struct, during 1954 - 1956, four mechanized bread-baking plants in Kishinev,
Tiraspol', Bendery, and Bel'tsy; to construct on mechanized bread bakery (khlel.
bopekarnya); to increase, in 1952, the production capacity of the Kishinev Bread-
Baking Plant No 1; and to reconstruct the Rybrits Bakery-0) In 1952, new mech-
anized bread baking plants will go into operation in Tbilisi, Chiatura, and
Takhaltubo of the Georgian SSR.(7) In 1950, the city of Yerevan, Armenian SSR,
put into operation mechanize Bread-Baking Plant No 2, reconstructed Bread-
Baking Plants No'l; and installed new so :pment in Bread-Baking Plant No 3 %nd 4.
In the same year, Bread-Baking Plants No 1 and 2 in Leninakan were completely
mechanized, and a new bread-baking plant was constructed in Kadzharan.(8)
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In 1951, the first unit of the Nisporeny Fruit and Vegetable Plant in the
Moldavian SSR was put in operation. The new enterprise hr- alree4y y educed more
than 1.5 million jars of jam and preserves. (9) Plans for future construction
work for the canning industry of the Moldavian SSR include the expansion and re-
construction of existing canneries and fruit and vegetable enterprises so that
their production capacities will be dsubled ruin the construction of three new
canneries during 1953 - 1956.(3)
Moldavian confectionery industry construction plans for the future are as
follows: to complete, in 1954, construction of the secor"? unit of the Kishinev
Confectionery Factory No 2; to reconstruct, in 1955, the Kishinev Confectionery
Factory No 1; and to construct one starch and syrup plant.(3) In 1952, the
Georgian food industry will construct one confectionery factory.(10) In 1952,
enterprises of the confectionery industry cf the Armenian SSR will be expanded
and reconstructed. The Leninakan Confectionery Factory will put in operation
in 1952?(4)
In 1951, the Salminskiy Butter Plant and the cheese-processing shops of
tL. Olonets and Sortaval' butter plants in the Karelo-Finnish SSR idere put in
operation. In 1952, construction work was begun on the Petrozavodsk Milk
Plant.(il) As of March 1952, refrigeratioe storage capacity in the Belorussian
SSR was 13 times greater than that of 1940. In 1951, the republic put in oper-
ation 11 highly mechanized butter- and cheese-processing plants, one cit dairy,
nine butter-producing enterprises, and a nun:,er of other enterprises .(12) A
her dried-milk plant was put in operation in Vasilevichi, Belorussian 3SR, in
1952. The plant will produce dried and cannea milk and prize-quality butter.(L3)
The dairy industry wf the Moldavian SSR is a:-pending. In 1951, mechanized
butter plants in Kamenk, Ataky, Florishty, Duboscary, and Teleneshty went in
operation. In Kishinev, a city dairy with an estimated processing capacity of
20 metric tons of milk a day is being built. In Yedintsy, the sixth butter-
and cheese laocessftg ulant in the republic is being built.(14) The Teleneshty
Cheese-Processing Plant is the first mechanized enterprise in the Moldavian SSR
for the production of cheese. This plant produces Yaroslavl' cheese and ic pre-
paring to produc: Soviet and Holland cheese.(15) A new dried-milk plant has
been finished outside of Rybnits in the Moldavian SSR. Up to now, the republic
has not produced dried milk. The new plant will produce up to 5,000 metric
tons cf this valuable product annually. (16) The Eajmakliya butter-Cassein Plant
in the Moldavian SSR has been put in operation. Milk---)rocessing plants are
still being jbuilt in five cities of the republic.(17)
In the Deorgian SSR, two mechanized butter- and cheese-processing plants
have been put, in operation. (10)
There are 76 plan..s operating in the Armenian Cheese Trust of the Ministry
of Fopd Industry Armenian S3R. From 1949 to 1951, 22 mechanized plants with
butter-processing shfis were constructed and put in operation in the principal
regiohs of the Armenian cheese-processing industry. The new plant in Snitakskiy
Rayon has been equipped with high-capacity units and refrigeration chamaers.
The plant is processing 2,000 metric tons of milk a year and producing priaf!-
quality cheese, butter, and lactose. New enterprises of the cheese-processing
industry areAbeing constructed in GuKasyanskiy, Kalininekly, and Talinskiy
rayttts. They will bit in.operation in 1952. (18)
An ice cream factory and an ice plant of the Yerevan Refrigeration Combine
in the Armenian SSR have been put in operation.(19) At the beginning of 1952,
a new mechanized butter- and cheese-processing plant was put in operation in
Kirovabad, Azerbv" zhan SSR. This plant will process 1,000 metric tons o. milk
daily. Technological processes in the production of milk products have been
completely mechanized In the new enterprise. In March and April 1952, two other
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mechanized butter- and cheese-processing plants in Mardakert and Dzhafarabad
will go in operation. Each of these plants will process 500 metric tons of milk
daily. The entire'technological process in the Dashsallakhlinskiy Butter- and
Cheese-Processing Plant in Sazakhskiy Rayon is being mechanized. Construction
of large-scale refrigeration base in Yevlakh is being completed. (20)
In Novosibirsk Oblast, HSE'SR, there are more than 150 large-scale mecha-
nized plants prolndiag butter, cheese, and condensed milk. During the postwar
years, the Oblast put in operation more than 20 new enterprises. In 1951, four
mechanized butter plants and two refrigerators were constructed and put in oper-
ation. The new Serebryanskiy Plant in Chulymskiy Rayon is processing 2,pOO
metric tons of milk a year.(21) In this plant, all processes are electrified,
and modern equipment has been installed, including a vacudm device for lactose
production. In 1952, six new butter plants will be constructed in Novosibirsk
Oblast.(22)
In Malta, Latvian SSR, a new fats and oils plant has been put in operation.
This plant is one of the largest ii, the republic and has been equipped with the
latest technical devices.(23) Future construction plans of the Moldavian fats
and oils industry areas follows: to complete, during 1953 - 1956, construction
of seven volatile-oils plants; to begin, in 1953, construction of an oil-
extraction plant; to reconstruct the Bel'tskiy Fats and Oils Plant No 2 and to
increase its production capacity; and to equip three fats and oils plants and
re-equip one fats and oils plant during 1952 -?1954.(3) In 1952, existing en-
terprises of the Armenian' fat's. and oils industry will be expanded and reccn-
structed. A new margarine plant will be put in operation in Yerevan.(4)
Fish pond and reservoir construction on kolkhozes and sovkhozes of the USSR
is progressing. These operations have been concentrated in the steppe and
forest-and-steppe regions of the European USSR. The plan calls for construction
of 44,2!8 ponds and reservoirs on kolkhozes and sovkhozes during 1949 - 1955.(24)
In 1951, mechanization of fish-catching and processing operations in the Eston-
ian SSR increased 24.6 percent as compared to 1950.(25) In 1951, new fish can-
neries in Pyarnu and Rakvere, Estonian SSR, went in operation,, and the Pyarnu-
Liyva Fish Plant was reconstructed and enlarged. The Pyarnu Fish Cannery, which
is the largest in the republic, is being equipped so that its annual production
capacity will be 9 million jars of canned fish. The Sandia Fish Cannery on the
island of Saaremaa is also being equipped to produce 6 million jars of canned
fish annually, and a large refrigerator is being added to the plant.(26)
At present, 110 kolkhozes in the Latvian SSR are engaged in the developmear
of pond fishing. In 1951, nearly 1,300 quintals of carp, tench, and Prussian
carp were caught in kolkhoz ponds. During 1952 - 1955, considerable development
in the fishing economy has been rlanned. In 3 years, there will be put in oper-
ation 2,500 hectares of old and 1,500 hectares of new ponds and *.ervoirs in
the republic. This will ms--e possible a 400-percent increase in the yield from
pond fishing. A number of small lakes have been placed at the disposal of kol-
khozes, the totel area of which is 35,000 hectares. In these lakes, fish can be
bred. By 1955, kolkhoz ponds and lakes of the Latvian SSR must yield not less
than 10,500 quintals of commercial fish.(27)
In 1951, kolkhozes of the Ukrainian SSR filled nearly 50,000 hectares of
ponds with various types of fish. At present, the Ukrainian SSR has 200 fish
hatcheries. From 1949 to 1955, there must be built on kolkhoz lands 41,000
ponds, and on sovkhozes, 2,928. The total area cf ponds in the USSR will soon
reach a million hectares. If an average productivity of 3 to 5 quintals of fish
per hectare is obtained, then the average yearly production will reach from 3 to
5 million quintals of fish.(2$)
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The completely reconstructed Ust'luzhskiy and Primorakiy Fisn combines in
the RSFSR are increasing prodhction of canned sprat and sardines. On completion
of construction work, production capacity of the Ruch'yevskiy Cannery in Lomono-
sovskiy Rayon increased 100 percent. By 15 May 1952, the first unit of the Vent-
spilskiy Fish Combine will be started. This combine will produce thousands of
tons of frozen fish, hundreds of jars of smoked cod and flounder in oil and to-
mato sauce, and large quantities of sprat. The Leningrad Fish Trust is receiv-
ing 20 automatic refrigerating machines.(29)
The Okhotsk Crab Flotilla supplies the country with unusual canned crab
goods. Okhotsk Sea yields 80 percent of the wo~.-ld's catch of Kamchatka Crab.
A floating crab cannery, the Vsevolod Sibirtsev, handles the crab business in
the USSR. This large ocearic vessel has a crew of more than 500 sailors, fish-
ermen, laborers, and canning specialists .(30) All basic processes of crab catch-
ing and processing have been mechanized in the cannery. Four semiautomatic ma-
chines which mechanize the most labor-consuming operations in crab-shelling
(razdelka) have been installed in the cannery. Each such machine releases up to
50 workers. In the near future all remaining floating plants of the flotilla
will be equipped with semiautomatic machines.(31)
In Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, the first unit of the meat combine, a refriger-
ator and sausage factory, is being completed. At the Bel'tsy Poultry Combine,
construction of a refrigerator and powdered-egg plant is progressing. (14) In
the Georgian SSR, three sausage enterprises have been put in operation.(10) In
Kutaisi, Georgian USE, a refrigerator with an esta.mated capacity of 400 metric
tons of meat has been cempleted.(32) The construction End equipping of a new
slaughtering point has been completed in Kurgan-'ryube, Tadzhik SSR. Sausages
will also be produced here. Similar slaughtering points in Kulyab and Shul'mak
were constructed in 1951.(33)
In January 1952, Tbilisi, Georgian USE, put in operation a new nonalcoholic-
beverage plant. The plant has been equipped with the most modern devices and ma-
chinery. During the first 10 days of January 1952. the plant produced 27,000
bottles of lemonade.(34) Powerful mechanized bottling plants are being con-
structed in the health resorts of Borzhom and Sairme, Georgian SSR.(7) In 1952,
existing enterprises of the mineral water industry of the Armenian SSR will be
expanded and reconstructed.(4)
The Bel'tskiy and Rybnitskiy plants, which are thu two sugar plants in the
Moldavian SSR, are inadequate for the processing of sugar beets grown in the re-
public. Therefore, by a government resolution, the construction of four new
large-scale sugar plants, during 1953 - 1957, has been planned. Furthermore,
the Bel'tskiy Sugar Plant will be reconstructed during 1952 and 1953, and its
production capacity will be increased. Sugar-beet processing bases are to be
organized in three rayons. These measures will enable the republic to process
the entire harvest of sugar beets grown on kolkhozes and solkhozes of the Mold-
avian SSR.(3) In Kursk Oblast, RSFSR, the new Bolshevik Sugar Plant, which has
:beep equipped with advanced techniques, has begun operation. It will process
10,200 quintals of sugar beets a day.(35)
'la 1952, the Georgian food industry is constructing 26 new tea facto ,^s
and one tea-pressing factory in Kutaisi Oblast, Adzbar and Abkhaz ASSR 4y, 10)
M ed in Ery of the lbldearien so has bean
given-the fo1.10ing eon-
btruE on -task to begin,eswtruition, in 1954, of a toblAoia ion plant
and to put, in operation in 1.9%. to restore the Shol.dansshtskiy Tobaoco~ Fermata-- ...::'.7
tion plant. to eX and and rsdeelrtract the Floreahtskiy and Orgeyev Sbb b6o >iermen-
tatios.; $s; to begin reetaevtios- of the fermentation building df tVkLs i:nev
lblwl'tambine in the first, q t+ar of 1952 and to put the first unit in operation
in Ills 3Niit'th quarter of 19521 auto construct five tobacco varshouaaaat procure-
ment pot bs of Moldavtabakspr'jr'' ]idaviah Office of Tobacco Raw Materials in
1952.3)
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During the period from 1949 through 1951, the wine industry of the Ukrain-
ian SSR constructed and put in operation a cognac distillery in the Peremoga
Naymitiv Sovkhoz of Kherson Oblast and the Bolgradskiy Plant in Izma1J'-Oblast. (36)
The f$rri monstraetlole 90048 he been decreed or the wine-making in-
austry of Moldavian SSRr to complete construction or the Tiraspol' and Bel'tsy
Wine and Cognac plants; to expand and reconstruct the Kishinev Cognac Plant; to
reconstruct the Komrat and Bul'bok Wine plants and increase their production ca-
pacities; to eoustructs champagne wine plant, a cognac vine plant, and several
dozen primary wine-making plants; and also to build a number of wine store-
hoases.(3)
The Georgian Itne-making industry is constructing two large wine-making
plants in Gurdzbaana9Csad Mayakovsk. Republic construction of eight wine
presses is proceeding. the estimated production capacity of these presses is
nearly 15,000 metric tie of grapes annually. Construction of the largest co-
gnac plant in the countwy has been finished.(7) A wine cellar with a capacity
of 500,000 deciliters lap also been finished, and a cellar with a capacity of
600,000 deciliters is brlat monstructed.(37)
A wine plant in Ashtsmtft, Armenian SHE, with a production capacity of 16
million deciliters will go ir! operation in the third quarter of 1952.(4)
Production Statistics
Enterprises of the USSR food industry fulfilled the 1951 plan for gross pro-
duction 107 percent. (1) In 1951, the Estonian food industry produced 14.4 per-
cent more foodstuffs than in 1950.38) Food enterprises of Belorussian SSR ful-
filled the 1951 plan for gross production 103 percent (39) and produced 11 per-
cent more n in 1950 gown., more than 100 enterprises of the Ministry of
Food Indu,t;ry Beloruwsb,an anu did not fulfill the 1951 production plan, and the
majority of food industry branches did not fulfill the plan for assortment of
goods. The 1951 plan for production of starch, cocoa, biscuit, syrup, raw al-
cohol, beer, and other food products was considerably underfulfilled.(39)
All branches of the Moldavian food Odbutry fulfilled the 1951 plan except
the fish industryall0) In 19, 51, enterprises of the Ministry of Food Industry mold-
avian SSR increased production 46.5 percent over 1950. However, more than 40
percent of the enterprises of the ministry did not fulfill the 1951 plan for
gross production.(41) In 1952, Moldavian food enterprises must produce 35 per-
cent more than in 1951.(40) During the first 2 months of 1952, enterprises of
the Ministry of Food ?ndustry Moldavian SSR fulfilled the production plan only
95.6 'ercent.(42)
In 1951, the Azerbaydzhan food industry fulfilled the yearly gross prod__-
tion plan 106.5 percent. The volume of gross production in 1951 increased 10.2
percent over 1950.(43) The 1951 gross turnover plan was fulfilled 104.9 percent
in wholesale shops of the RSFCR.(44) Enterprises of the Ministry of Food Indus-
try Kazakh SSR increased 1951 gross production 10.6 percent over 1950.(45) In
1951, the production volume of the Ministry of Food Industry Uzbek SSR as a
whole increased 20.2 percent over 1950. In 1952, the ministry must increase
gross production 7.4 percent over 1951.(46) The Ministry of Food Industry Tad-
zhik SSR fulfilled the 1951 gross production plan ]08 percent.(47) In 1951,
enterprises of the Kirgiz food industry increabed production over 1950 by al-
most a third and exceeded the prewar level several times.(48) The postwar Five-
Year Plan for the production of alcohol was fulfilled only 56.4 percent.(49)
During the first 11 months of 1951, the Moldavian food industry produced
27 percent more beer than during the corresponding period of 1950. The industry
fulfilled the 1951 beer production plan 103.5 percent.(40) Another source
states that the Moldavian beer industry underfulfilled the 1951 plan by more
then 260,000 bottles of beer.(41) In 1951, RSFJR production of bottled beer in-
creased almost 100 percent over 1950.(44)
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In 1951, the country's bread industry produced 1.5 times more bread prod-
ucts than in 1940 and 50 percent more than in 1950.(1) During bRe first 11
months of 1951, production of bread-p:oducts in the Moldavia. SSR increased 14
percent over the corresponding period of 1950.(40) In 1952, the Turkmen bread-
baking industry will increase the production of bread products more than 7 per-
cent. (50) In 195],t1ie.Ministry of Food Industry Tadzhik SSR produced 21 per-
cent more bakery goods than in 1950.(47)
In 1952, the Ministry of Food Industry Belorussian SSR is to increase
canned goods production three times over 1951.(72) In January and the first 10
days of February 1952, the IGioynikakiy Cannery, Belorussian SSR, vroduced 95,000
jars of canned goods above plan.(51) Enterprises of Belkonserwttleet(Belorussian
Canning Trust) fulfilled the 1951 plan for canned goods production 92 percent
but for the production of stewed fruit only 7.8 percent.(39)
Enterprises of the Moldavian food industry fulfilled the 1951 plan for the
production of canned goods 122.6 percent. During the first 11 months of 1951,
canned goods production of the Moldavian SSR increased 55.3 percent over the cor-
responding period of 1950.(40) In .951, canneries of the Moldavian SSR produced
1.5 times more than all the canneries of Tsarist Russia on the eve of the World
War I.(42) The Tiraspol' Cannery imeni Tkachenko, Moldavian SSR, produced more
than 18 million jars of canned goods in 1;,51.(52) In 1952, the Tiraspol' Can-
nary imeni 1 May has pledged to produce 400,000 jars of canned goods above plan
by 1 May 1952?(53) In 1952, the Moldavian canning industry will produce 25 mil-
lion jars more canned fruits and vegetables than in 1951.(17) In 1952, the Mold-
avian canning industry is producing more than 80 items of canned vegetable,
fruit, and meat goods , end canned goods production will double as compared to
1940.(41)
The Zugdidi Cannery, Georgian SSR, produced tens of thousands of jars of
fruit above the 1951 plan. A considerable part of the plant production has been
sent to Leningrad and the Far East.(30) In 1951, the Gori Cannery, Georgian SSR,
fulfilled the yearly plan for production of prime-quality canned goods 128 per-
cent (37) and produced 2,200,000 jars of prime-quality canned goods above
plan.(54)
The Ayrumskiy Cannery, Armenian SSR, fulfilled the i;5] plan ahead of time
and produced 353,000 jars of preserver and jam above plan.(%) T&fan Cannery
is a new enterprise in the organization of the Irmkonservi.:est~Armanian Canning
Trust). It was put in operation in October 1950 with a planned capacity of
500,000 jars of canned goods yearly. During the 1951 production season, the
plant produced nearly 600,000 jars of fruit.(56) In 1951, the 0ktemberyanskiy
Cannery produced 900,000 jars of various canned goods above plan.(57)
In 1951, the A3=-Ata Fruit-Canning Combine, Kazakh SSR, produced only one
third of the planned production of preserves and jam and only 7 percent of the
planned production of stewed fruit.(45) In 1.952, Uzbek food workers will pro-
duce 7 million jars more canned zoods than in 1951.(46) In 1951, the Tadzhik
food industry produced 19 percent more dried fruit than in 1950.(47) The Len-
inabad Canning Combine, Tadzhik SSR, fulfi11eO. the 1951 plan by 3.25 percent, and
exceeded 1950 production by 5 percent.(58)
In 1951, USSR production of soft candies increased 60 percent over 1940,
and production of wrapped packaged confectionery goods doubled as compared to
prewar.(1)
r' During the fourth quarter of 1951, the Kocmunarka Confectionery Factory in
Minsk, Belorussian SSR, fulfilled the plan fo- gross production 142.4 percent,
including 166.9 percent in December alone. The factory produced 700.6 metric
tons of confectionery goods above Plan. (59) In January 1952, the Krasnyy
Mozyryanin Confectionery Factory in Narovlyans'riy, Belorussian OCR, produced 50
percent more confectionery goods than in December 1951.(51)
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In 1951, enterprises of the Moldavian food industry under.`lili'illed the plan
by nearly 100 metric tons of confectionery goods.(41) The Baku Carmel Factory
in the Azerbaydzban SSR is one of the largest in the Caucasus. In 1952, the
factory is producing 6-8 metric tons more candy than the daily average for De-
cesdfer 1951: The shops of the factory are producing 40 kinds of confectionery
products.(60)
In 1951, RSFSR production of halve increased 50 percent over 1950.(44) The
Kraanyy Oktyabr' Confectionery Factory, RSFSR, produced nearly 5,000 metric tons
of confectionery goods above the 1951 plan.(61)
in the Kazakh SSR, 1951 production of confectionery goods increased by 25per-
cent over 1950.(45) In 1952, Uzbek food workers will produce L,.vu metric tons
more confectionery goods than in 1951.(46) The :hardzhou Licorice Plant, Turk-
men SSR, will produce 35 percent more licorice in 1952 than in 1951.(62) In
1951, production of confectionery goods in the Tadzhik SSR increneed 23 percent
over 1950.(47)
In 1950, USSR butter production increased 57 percent over prewar.(63) In
1951, enterprises of the Ministry of Meat and Dairy _ndustry USSR produced 24.5
percent more ice cream than in 1950. The proportion of cream-base varieties of
ice cream produced in 1951 was 24.4 percent of total ice cream nr,-Ai,ri-.+nn as
compared with 22 percent in 1950. The following table shows plan fulfillments
for several refrig-ration plants (64):
Percent of Plan Fulfill-
Refrigeration Plant meat as of 1 Oct 51 _
Oor'kovskiy 124
Dnepropetrovskiy 121
Pyatigorskiy Refrigeration Combine 110
Chelyabinsk 48
Ryazan 56
Stalinskiy 73
Bezbitakiy 6o
In 1951, enterprises of the Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry USSR ful-
filled the gross production plan 103 percent.(65) In 1951, cheese-processing
enterprises of the USSR increased production of small cheeses 12 percent over
1950, and large cheeses 14 percent. The. ministry has 50 plants which produce
milk sugar or lactose. In 1951, milk-Canning plants of the USSR produced twice
as much milk in small containers as in 195066) In 1951, the USSR food in-
dustry increased production of milk products 44 percent over 1950 (67, 68) and
butter 8 percent.(69)
In 1951, the Estonian meat and datr industry ~.roduced 15.4 percent more
meat and dairy products than in 1950.(38) The Tallin Milk Combine fulfilled the
1951 113.9 percent. The combine produces more than 60 kinds of dairy prod-
ucts.(7700n ) The Latvian food industry's Five-Year Plan for butte.: production was
fulfilled 82.2 percent. During the first 11 months of 1951, the Ministry of
Meat and Dair Industry Latvian SSR underfulfilled the plan by 961 metric tons
of butter.(49) The Bauskiy Creamery, Latvian SSR, has pledged to produce 250
pod of creamery butter above plan before the end of the first quarter 1952.(70
The Sheduva Creamery, Lithuanian SSR, fulfilled the 1951 plan for butter
production 124 parcent.(72) During the first 10 months of 1951, as compared
with the corrresponding period in 1950, the Ukrainian SSR increased production
sr;.
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of Prim-quality butter by 5.6 percent; whole cheese, 3.9 percent; and dried
milk, 10 percent. (66) In 1952, the Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry Mold-
avian SSR will Produce 50 percent more butter than in 1951.(17)
In 1951, Armayrtrest (Armenian Cheese Trust) underfulfilled the plan by
900 metric tons of whole milk products, 70 metric tons of ice cream, and 30
metric tons of sharp cheese.(73) In 1951, 13 enterprises of Azmaeloprom (Azer-
baydzhan Butter Industry) Trust did not fulfill the plan, although the trust as
a whole fulfilled the gross production plan. The ice cream factory of this
trust fulfilled the 1951 plan 86.7 percent.(74) E_;.e
filled the Production 952ihs of tieoandm ful-
filled for the first quarter of 1952 ahead of f time and pro-
duced a considerable quantity of creamery butter, 100 metric tons of brynza, and
other cheeses above plan. (75)
In 1951, meat and dairy enterprises of the Uzbek SSR fulfilled the plan for
gross production 106.8 percent and milk products 110.4 percent. The republic
industry shoved an increase of 28,180 quintals of milk products over 1950 (76),
In 1952, Uzbek food workers will produce 16,000 metric tons more butter tuan in
1951.(46) In 1952, butter Production in the Turkmen SSR will increase 15 per-
cent over 1951.(501
In 1932, of the total USSR meat production, 27.9 percent was pork and 6.6
percent was fowl. In 1938, 43.5 percent was pork and 8.3 percent was favl.(77)
In 1950, meat production in the USSR increased 7 percent over prewar, and sat-
products increased 20 percent.(63) In 1951, production of meat and meat
products in the USSR increased 20 percent over 1950.(69) In 1951, meat produc-
tion alone increased 12 percent over 1950 and sausage products 17 percent.(67)
In 1952, gross production of the Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry
Karelo-Finnish SSR will increase 20 percent over 1951.(u) The Latvian SSR ful-
filled the postwar Five-Year Plan for meat production 46.4 percent.(49) In
1951, production of meat and sausage products in the Belorussian SSR increased
23 - 28 percent, and production of poultry increased 79 percent over 1950.(12)
In 1951, meat enterprises of the Uzbek SSR fulfilled the meat production plan
101 percent and the sausage products plan 107.4 percent. In 1951, 31,699 quin-
tals more meat were produced than in 1950 and 11,224 quintals more sausage prod-
ucts.(76)
During the postwar Five-Year Plan, the fats and oils industry of the USSR
increased production of oils 1.5 times; soap, 2.8 times; and hydrogenated fat,
3.6 times. At the beginning of 1946, 17.8 perceuc of all oleaginous raw mate.
riels were Processed. By the end of 1951, this figure had increased to 72 per.
cent. In 1951, .utal production cf c)tcon-eeed oil exceeded that of 1950 by 33
percent and that of 1940 by 20.8 percent.(78) In 1951, the USSR food industry
increased production of vegetable oil 12 percent over 1950.(67, 68) Another
source lists a 38-percent increase in vegetable-nil rMuctfon in 1951 over
],950.(69) By 1951, the productive capacity of the flits and oils plants of Glavraszh-
irmaslo (!lain Administration of Vegetable Fats and Oils Industry) reached 125
percent of the prewar level and in 1955, must reach 185 7)ercent.(79) During the
first 11 months of 1951, the Moldavian food industry produced 56.2 percent more
vegetable oils than during the corresponding period of 1950. The Moldavian SSR
fulfilled the 1951 plan for production of vegetable oils 114.7 percent (40) and
increased productior over 1950 1.5 percert.(41) In 1951, the Trandafir Volatile Oil
Sovkhoz Plant in Ryshkanaxiy, Moldavian ?'R, produces and delivered to the state
4,157 kilograms of volatile oils, which quadrupled the planned production. The
average sage yield in 1951 was 76 quintals per hectare. On tbn Sovkhoz, the
following oleaginous crops are being cultivated: 56 hectares of Damascus rose,
46 hectares of iris, 245 hectares of sage, 5 hectares of lavender, and 56,000
bushes of jasmi.n.(80)
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Only six out of JF -rats and oils plants of Uzbekrasmasio Trest (Uzbek Veg-
etable: Oil Rust, fulfilled the 1951 plan. The Leninsk Plant underfulfilied the
plan by 360 metric tons of oil; the Andizhan Plant, 2,x?,O actric tons; the Denau
Plant 580 metric tons; the Urgench Plant, 1,900 metric tons; m d the Fergana
Plant 187 metric tons.(78) The Kokand Fats and Oils Plant No 2, Uzbek SSR, has
been working on the 1952 plan since 18 November 1951. In 1951, the plant prc-
duced 2,500 metric tons of cil, more than 450 metric tons of linters, and a con-
siderable quantity of soap. In January 1952, the production plan vas fulfilled
109.6 percent. The plant has pledged to fulfill the 1952 plan by Stalin Consti-
tution Day 5 Decembe 7 and to produce '.,500 metric tons of oil above plan by
the end of the year.(81)
In 1952, production of household soap in the Turkmen SSR must increase 34
percent over 1951.(50) In 1951, the Ministry of Food Industry Tadzhik SSR in-
creased production of vegetable oils 38 percent over 1950.(47)
In 1951, the country's fish industry fulfilled the plan for gross produc-
tion 109 percent (82) and increased fish production 22 percent over 1950.(67)
The production capacity of the fishing fleet of the Karelo-Finnish S3R is double
that of 1949. In 1951, the fishing plan was fulfilled 90.4 percent and the fish-
canning plan 62 percent. Fishing kolkhozes of the republic underfulfilled the
plan by more than 20,000 quintals of fish. (83) During the 1952 spring fishing
season, fishermen of the Sortaval'skiy Fiah Combine, Karelo-Finnish SSR, must
catch 160 percent more fish than during the same period of 1)51.(84)
By 1 November 1951, enterprises of the Ministry of Fish Industry Estonian
SSR had fulfilled the yearly plan 106 percent. The fish catch increased 23 per-
cant over the game period in 1950 and fish-canning production 82 percent.(38)
For all of 1951, the Estonian fish industry fulfilled the plan 116 percent. (85)
In 1951 r. the Estonian fish industry fulfilled the plan for catching fish by 35
October and before the erd of the year, caught and processed 85,000 pud of fish
above plan. During the 1951 season, 278,000 pud more fish were caught in the
republic than in 1950. By 1 October, the hatcheries of the Tartuskiy State
Fisheries Trust, Estonian SSR, fulfilled the 1951 fishing plan 1.5 times and by
the end of the year, caught 9,200 quintals of fish above plan. The Tartuskiy
Fish Combine fulfilled the 1951 production Dian 107 percent.(22)
Fishing kolkhozes of Estonian SSR fulfilled the 1951 fishing plan by 25
September and delivered to the state 238,000 pud more fish in 1951 than in 3950.
The 1952 kolkhoz fishing plan calls for an increase of 30 percent over 1951.
The kolkhoz fishing plan for the first quarter of 1952 was fulfilled 102.2 per-
cent.(86) The 1951 fish catch in the Estonian SSR was almost five times that
of 1945. During 1951, 45,000 quintals more fish were caught than in 1950.(25)
In 1951, Estonian production of canned fish increased four times over
1950.(26) In the first quarter of 1952, fish combines of this republic received
.given times more fish than during the same period ai 1951 (87) in 1951, the
Pyarnu-Liyva Fish Plant, Estonian SSR fulfilled the annual plan 107 percent. (88)
The Pyarnuaki.y Fish Combine fulfilled the 1951 ,gross production plan 116 percent,
and in 1952, the combine must produce twice as many salted fish as in 1951. The
combine has pledged to produce 1,700 quintals of salted fish above the 1952
plan.(89) In 1952, the Zhdanov Fish-Canning Plant, Estonian SSE., must catch
60,000 pud more fish than in 1951.00)
Fishing kolkhozes of the Latvian SSR exceeded the 1951 fishing plan by 50
percent. Instead of an anticipated 47,630 quintals of above-plan fish, republic
kolkhozes caught more than 112,000 quintals of fish above plan-(91) For the
Latvian SSR as a whole, the 1951 fish catch was 600,000 pud. above plan. (92) In
1951, the iflr ainian fish catch increased 32 percent over 1950. The 1951
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fish-canning plan was fulfilled 119.5 percent. Fish-processing enterprises of
the Ukrainian SSR fulfilled the 1951 plan for production of fish marinades 139.4
percent end produce& 44.9 Percent more than in 1950. The 1951 plan was fui-
filled) by types of fish, as follows.(93):
Fish
Percent of
Pl
F
an
ulfillment
Herring
139.3
Clupeonella harangula
9k.7
Anchovy
Net fish (carp, bream,
154.3
Pike, Perch) tench, etc.)
Mirror
105.0
Bullhead
113.1
Sturgeon
348.4
Mullet
93.6
Mackerel
248.
39.7
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For the fourth quarter 1951, the Izmail' State Fishing Trust, Ukrainian SSP4
fulfilled the plan 166 percent. (94) In 1951, the Kyzyl-Burun Fish Plant; Azer-
baydzhan SSR, fulfilled the plan 141 percent. Azerbaydzhan fishing kolkhozes
fulfilled the 1951 plan 109.8 peresnt.(95) In 1951, fishermen of Krasnodar Kray
fulfilled the fishing plan 114.8 percent and the production plan for fish prod-
ucts 117.3 percent. Murmansk Oblast fishermen fulfilled the 1951 fishing plan
by 15 December and produced 3,354,000 pud more fish than for the ?orresponding
period in 1950.(93) For all of 1951, the Murmansk Oblast fish industry produced
more than one million pud of fish above plan. (44) In 1951, the enterprises of
Lenrybtrest (Leningrad Fish Trust') produced more than 2 million jars of canned
goods above plan and many tons of live and refrigerated fish. (29) The Okhotsk
Crab Flotilla produced 3 million jars more canned goods during the first 7
months of 1951 than during the corresponding period of 1950?(30) In 1951, the
Uzbek fish catch increased more than 30,000 quintals over 1950.(96)
In 1952, the Ministry of Food Industry Belorussian SSR must increase pro-
duction of macaroni 100 percent over 1951?(2) Enterprises of the Moldavian food
industry fulfilled the 1951 plan for production of macaroni products 102.6 per-
cent. During the first 11 months of 1951, 50 percent more macarc-li was produced
than during the corresponding period of 1950.(40) The Moldavian food industry
increased production of macaroni products 1.6 percent over 1950.(41) In 1951,
production of tubular macaroni products in the RSFSR increased almost 50 percent
over 1950.(44) Production of macaroni in the Kazakh SSR increased 25 percent in
1951 as compared to 1950.(45) In 1952, the Uzbek foci industry will produce
1,400 metric tons more macaroni than in 1951.(46)
Production of carbonated beverages in USSR is almost double that of pre-
var. (97)
The USSR sugar industry fulfilled the 1951 Production Ulan 118 percent (98)
and produced 18 percent more sugar than in 1950.(99) Another source lists a 24.
percent increase in the 1951 production of sugar as compared with 1950.(69) The
Latvian SSR fulfilled the postwar Five-Year Plan of sugar production 91.8 per-
cent.(49)
The Ukrainis. SSR fulfilled the 1951 sugar-beet procurement plan 111.9 per-
cent, delivering to the sugar plants 23.2 million quintals more sugar beets than
in 1950, which made it possible for the republic to produce 21 million pad more
sugar in the 1951 - 1952 season than during the previous season. Ukrainian
sugar plants fulfilled the 1951 sugar production plan by 17 December and produced
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13.5 million pud of sugar above plan. Chernovitsy Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, har-
vesteA 253 quintals of sugar beets per hectare; Ternopol' Oblar?+. 236 quintals;
and Bemeaets-Podal'sk Oblast, 219 quintals. After reconstruction, the
sugar plants of Ukrgl.avsakbar (Main Administration oP Sugar Industry
Ukrainian SSB) can now process 40,000 quintal: more sugar beets. By 20
Sepbber 1951, all 147 sugar plants, which were plt.nard fv , wt--e
operating. The highest production indexes were obtained by the Veselo-
Podolyanskiy Sugar Plant. It fulfilled the 1951 plan by 25.Noveuber ana pro-
duced 450,000 pud of sugar above plan by the end of the year.(99)
r Production of sugar in the Moldavian SSR in 1951 increased 81 percent over
190.(42) More than 1,600,000 quintals of sugar beets from the 1951 crop
(631,000 quintals more than planned) have been delivered to the Agara Sugar Plant.
By 27 December, the plant had fulfilled the 1951 plan, producing 14,000 metric
tons of prime-quality sugar.(30) The Agara Sugar Plant ineni L. P. Beriya in
the Georgian SSR fulfilled the postwar Fire-Year Plan 121 percent. In 1951, the
plant produced 36,800 pud of sugar above plan.(37)
In 1951, 31 percent more tea was yroduced in the USSR than in 1950.(67) In
1951, ,he Kazakh SSR increased production of tea 16 percent over 1950.(45)
In 1951, the Kishinev Tobacco Combine, Moldavian SSR, fulfilled the yearly
plan 113.8 percent.. In 1952, production must increase 21 percent. The combine
fulfilled the plan for the first 2 months of 1952 by 109.5 percent.(] 00) The
Kansk Tobacco and Makhorka Factory in the RSFSR fulfilled the 1951 gross produc-
tion plan 118.8 percent.(101) In 1951, the Kazakh SSR increased production of
tobacco by more than 33 percent as compared with 1950.(45)
In 1951, the USSR wine-making industry showed the following increases in
production over 1950: champagne, 100.4 percent; cognac; 102.5 percent; fruit
and berry wine, 71.5 percent; and cognac alcohol, 135.6 percent. The following
table lists production of a number of USSR wine-making enterprises (102):
Enterprise 124. 1946 119948 124. 1929 1951
(planned)
(in decaliters from one metric ton of grapes)
Abrau Dyurso Champagne Combine 54.5 63.0 64.3 65.2 66.8 66.0 66.7
Massandr:. Wine Combine 62.0 62.6 64.1 64.5 64.0 64.7 66.0
Georgia Champagne Combine 61.o 61.3 62.0 63.2 64.0 64.5 65.0
Tashkent Champagne Combine 61.2 6o.1 59.7 62.7 63.5 63.4 66.0
Bessarabia Champagne Combine 60.2 55.0 63.8 60.8 63.9 65.3 65.5
Rosglavvino 61.7 63.9 65.5 65.7 66.7 66.1 67.7
Ukrglavvino 60.4 61.7 64.7 66.9 66.6 67.8 67.6
Uzbekvino Trust 65.0 66.1 65.8 67.2 67.7 67.5 57.5
Samtrest 64.2 64.6 65.6 65.9 66.7 66.5 67.0
Azsovkhoztrest 62.2 62.6 66.1 64.8 67.1 66.4 67.8
Nol4g'.avvino 55.2 55.1 63.1 62.3 62.8 64.1 64.5
In 1951, the champagne wine plant in Leningrad more than doubled produc-
tion of champagne, and grape wine production increased almost four times over
1948. The 1951 plan, which included an additional production of 16,000 bottles
of champagne, was fulfilled by 1 August. By the end of the year, the plant pro-
duced an additional 17,000 bottlec of Soviet champagne. On the sovkhozes of
Zakarpatskiy Wine Truss, Ukrainian SSR, vineyard yields are increasing. In 1949,
the trust obtained 48.1 quintals per hectare; in 1950, 49 quintals; in 1951, 57
quintals. In 1951, wine plants of Ukrglavvino produced 52 peroent'mor~ grape
wine than in 1950, 85 percent of which was bottled. Cognac production more than
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doubled. In 1951, Izmail' Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, processed seven times more
grapes than in 1946, 100 percent more than in 1950, and 3,127 metric tons of
grapes above the 1951 plan?(36)
In 1951, state enterprises in the Moldavian SSR, not counting production
of kolkhoz and cooperative wine-making establishments, produced 75 percent more
wine than in 1950.(3) In 1951, enterprises of the Moldavian food industry ful-
filled the yearly plan for production of grape wine 111.7 percent and cognac 135
percent. During the first 11 months of 1951, the Moldavian food industry pro-
duced 92.6 percent more grape wine than during the corresponding period of 1950
and 45 percent more cognac. In 1951, 70 percent more grapes were prepared and
processed than in 1950 and almost tnree times more than in 1949?(40)
In 1951, RSFSR production of brand wine increased 1.5 times over 1950.(44)
In 1951, wine production it the Kazakh SSR increased more than 33 percent as
compared with 1950.(45) The Ministry of Food Industry Tadzhik SSR rulfilled
the 1951 plan for grape wine production 12 percent.(47)
Operational Efficiency
The following article from Sovetskaya Beloruss provides information on
difficulties and shortcomings in enterprises o? the Ministry of Food Industry
Belorussian SSR.
"The editorial office of the newspaper Sovetska a .2g.i.va has,.been re-
ceiving many complaints from workers concerning the condition of several enter-
prises of the Ministry of Food Industry Belorussian SSR. One letter from a
worker of the Dobrushakiy Starch Plant concerned the director of the plant,
Leonov, xio was earlier removed from thu directorship of the K]imovichskiy
Liquor and Vodka Plant because of drunkenness and malpractices.
"The worker accused the director of treating the workers in a highhanded
and abusive manner and of squandering state property. The chief of Belmaslo-
krakhmaltrest (Belorussian Vegetable Oils and Starch Trust), Makeyev, hurriedly
stated to the ministry that the accusations were groundless and called the
writer of the letter a troublemaker. After this, the ministry received a new
complaint. Zaytsev, control inspector for the ministry, went to check the com-
plaint and also reported to the ministry that the information was without foun-
dation. It was later discovered that Leonov actually was engaged in squandering
state property, but the ministry was unable to verify this information for 6
months.
"In 1951, 802 complaints were filed at the Ministry of Food Industry Belo-
russian SSR. These complaints concerned production deficiencies, misappropria-
tion and embezzlement, low quality of production, and extreme maltreatment of
the workers on the part of individual leaders of the enterprises. The ministry
received 135 warnings of malpractice and embezzlement.
"Minister Sysoyeva stated that such effort has been made to prevent misap-
propriation and embezzlement. However, while conducting chis effort to expose
such malpractices, ministry leaders are handling poorly t}e selection, placement,
and training of key personnel. Some of the individuals who were formerly dis-
charged because of drunkenness, nepotism, and embezzlement still continue to
work in industrial and trade enterprises. For example, one Goryachev, as direc-
tor of the Minsk Biscuit Factory, surrounded himself with thieve, and swindlers
and caused great damage to the state. Soon after Goryache-. had been removed from
this position, a "trusting soul" from Belkonditertrest (Belorussian Confection-
ery Trust) entrusted him with the management of the Minsk Sales Base. Here, for
a long time, under his auspices. a certain Rye'. who embezzled more ?than 13,000
rubles, was in charge. With the aid of one Azarehuk, formerly
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director of the Krasnaya Zarya Yeast and Syrup Plant and now ci:ie;' of supply
for Belkonditertrest, and Goryachev, Rys' succeeded in retiring f acefuily from
the base and set himself up as dispatcher of the Krasnaya Zoraya Plant. Thus,
Rys' continues to work in an enterprise of the Ministry of Food Industry. That
is why, despite the fight against misappropriation, embezzlement in ministerial
enterprises is not diminishing but growing. For 1950 and the first 9 months of
1951, the sum of embezzlements and misappropriations constitutes an impressive
figure.
"In general, cadre selection, placement, and training is given far too
little attention by the ministry. Often, individuals who do not have s special
technical education or business qualifications are entrusted with the manage-
ment of trusts and enterprises. Some of the directors of plants, factories,
and combines of the miristry'do not even have a complete secondary education.
More than 40 men are working as chief engineers and technicians without special
technical preparation, having obtained only a pry ary or incomplete secondary
education. There is a considerable turnover of cacres of specialists in enter-
prises of the ministry. In 1951, 84 men were taken into leading positions, and
during this period, 86 men left.
"Many orders and decisions made by the co]legium of the ministry for the
operational improvement of enterprises are not e:.ecutec, by the ministry. Qies-
tions concerning mechanization of labor-consuming "rocesnes and dissemination of
advanced methods of operation do not receive sufiicient attention from ministry
leaders. Very often, business matters are lost, in a stream of red tape and
never followed through.
"In April 1951, the cnilegium of the ministry approved an important plan
concerning the study and dissemination of a new method of operation by the
Yaddviga Aatraukh Brigade of the Kommunarka Confectionery Factory in Minsk for
the mechanization of caramel fillii_g and feeding. Despite the fact that the
factory is beaten in Minsk, quite near to the ministry, the plan was not ex-
ecuted. Up to now, the Astraukh method has not been applied in all enterprises
of the ministry. Even the mechanization of labor-consuming processes at the
Kommunarka Factory is not complete. Three new wrapping machines in the candy
shop have remained inactive for 2 years simply because the ministry did not
provide the factory with missing parts. Many orders concerning utilization of
equipment have been issued by the miniscrv, but the majority o-' them are not
j,,-executed.
introducing into practice all new and advanced ideas and of assisting inventors
and inventors in their work But the council, which is under the leadership of Dep-
uty Minister Karandzey is not fulfilling its functions. Often, problems not con-
nected with techniques are disputtedinthe sessions. It was not by chance that the
Jointly conceived innovation of enginpr'v Bbbashinskivand Kolomeyta tithe Borisov-
skiy Macaroni Factory imeni Lenin lay fors months it the portfolios of the ministry.
The innovation was a plan for increns_ug production .apacities of ministerial
enterprises, the adoption of which would save 2,465,000 rubles yearly. The
proposition was discussed only after the engineers approached the ministry for
a second time on 10 November 1951. Even after its approval by the technical
council, the suggestion was not put in practice. "(19)
In the Kazakh SSR, not all food industry enterprises have met their assign-
ments: ten did not fulfill the 1951 plan. This lag was reported to be the re-
sult of operational inefficiency and violations of the prcdnr`+r., crhedule. A
decided lack in new machinery and new techniquer was said to be evident in these
enterprises. This was especially true in the confectioner;, .tad bread-baking in-
dustries. Also, because of ingdequate storage facilities, a large percentage of
wine materials was allowed to spoil.
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Another flaw in the Kazakh food industry operation in early 1952 was re-
ported to be poor distribution of raw materials bases for the wine-making, fruit-
canning, butter-processing, tobacco, and makhorka inauatries. In North-
Kazakhstan and East-Kazakhstan oblasts, food enterprises were inadequately
supplied with syrup and starch raw materials, since there is no processing plant
in that area. Fruit-canning enterprises did not receive enough fruits and veg-
etables to fulfill their production plans. Nothing was done by the republic
agricultural and food ministries to alleviate this condition; efforts to in-
crease tomato, fruit, and berry harvests were ineffectively carried out, and
time limits for raw material deliveries and vegetable harvests were violated.
Raw material resources of wild fruits, berries, and nuts were not utilized by
canning enterprises.(103)
In 1951. plants of Uzbekrasmaslotrest (Uzbek Vegetable Oils Trust) allowed
above-norm losses of cotton-seed oil. The Kagan Plant lost 261 metric tons of
oil; the Yangi-Yul' Plant, 94 metric tons; the Denau Plant, 175 metric tons; the
Urgench Plant, 410 metric tons; and the Fergana Plant'67 metric tons. Despite
better quality of seeds, the plants did not operate as well in 1951 as in 1950.
The actual loss for the trust as a whole in 1950 was 3.9 percent. The loss norm
in 1951 was established at 3.9 percent, but the actual loss amounted to 4.02 per-
cent. As a result, the trust fulfilled the 1951 production plan for oil 98 per-
cent.
In February 1952, the work of the cotton-g.nning industry was still lagging
behind dema-ds of the cotton-seed oil industry. Uzbek plants were receiving
seeds with a high rate of fuz covering. In November 1951, the Leninsk Plant re-
ceived seeds with a 12-percent linter ratio; the Denau Plant, 11.6 percent; the
Gizhduvan Plant, 12.5 percent; the Mangit Plant, 12.3 percent; and the Kungrad
Plant, 12.1 percent. Consequently, technical and economic indices of these
plants are greatly lowered.(78)
1. Moscow, Izvestiya, 2 Feb 52
2. Mi-sk, Scvetskaya Belorussiya, 28 Mar 52
3. Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, I Mar 52
4. Moscow, Trud, 8 Feb 52
5. Petrozavodak, Leninskoye Znamya, 11 Jan 52
6. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 23 Mar 52
7. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 20 Feb 52
8. Yerevan, Kommunist, 5 Jan 52
9. Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 28 Feb 52
1.0. Izvestiya, 26 Feb 52
U. Leninskoye Znamya, 23 Jan 52
12. Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 13 Mar 52
13. Ibid., 19 Mar 52
14. Izvestiya, 22 Feb 52
15. Ibid., 10 Jan 52
16. Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 19 Feb 52
17. Moscow, Pravda, 7 Jan 52
18. Izvestiya, 16 Feb 52
19.. Komm n at, 8 Feb 52
20.. Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 15 Jan 52
21.' Pravda, 14 Jan 52
22. Talliii, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 11 Jan 52
23. Sovetskaya Latviya, 25 Jan 52
24. Pravda, 21 Mar 52
25. Sovetskaya Estoniya, 26 Mar 52
26.': Izvestiya, 30 Jan 52
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Sovetskaya Latviya, 29 Mar 52
28.
Izvestiya, 12 Feb 52
29.
Leningrad, Leninyredskaya Pravda,
22 Feb 52
30.
Tbilisi, Zarya Vostokaa, 6 Jab 52
31.
Vil'nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 20 Mar 52
32.
Zarya Vostolaa, 1 Jan 52
33?
Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistan, 8 Jan 52
34.
Zarya Vostoka, 13 Jan 52
35.
Leningradskaya Pravda, 4 Jan 52
36.
Moscow, Vinodeliye i Vinogradarstvo, No 2, 1952
37.
Zar7a Vostoka, 22 Feb 52
38.
Sovetskaya Estoniya, 1 Jan 52
39.
Sovetskaya Beloruaaiya, 5 Fat 52
40.
sovetskaya Mo?daviya, 3 Jan 52
41.
Ibid., 2 Feb 52
42.
Ibid., 20 Max 52
43.
Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 19 Mar 52
44.
Izvestiya, 28 Mar 52
45.
Alma-Ata, Kazakhatanakaya Praria 12 Feb 52
46.
Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 13 r. x 52
7.
Kammunist Tadzhikistan, .26 Jan 52
Z8.
Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirg'.ziya, 29 Mar 52
49.
Sovetskaya Latviya, 5 Jan 52
50.
Ashkhabad, Turkmenakaya Iskra, 3 Feb 52
51.
Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 17 Feb 52
52.
Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 13 Feb 52
53.
Ibid., 22 Mar 52
54.
Zarya Vostoka, 4 Jan 52
55.
Kb-mnist, 3 Jan 52
56.
Ibid., 22 Feb 52
57.
Ibid., 2 Mar 52
58.
Kommvnist Tadzhikistan, 2 Feb 52
59.
Sovetskaya Beloruasiya, 14 Feb 52
604?, Bakink:y Rabochiy, 31 Jan 52
~1. Moscow, Vechernyaya Moskva, 18 Feb 52
62. Turkmenskaya Iskra, 29 Mar 52
63.?,Moscow, Voprosy Ekonomiki, No 12, 1951
64. Moscow, Kholodil'naya Tekhnika, No 1, 1952
65. Moscow, Molochanya Promyshlennost', No 3, 1952
66. Ibid., No 1, 1952
67. Trud, 31 Jan 52
.468. Voprosy Ekonomiki, No 2, 1952
69. Sovetskaya Litva, 1 Jan 52
70. Sovetskaya Estoniya, 19 Feb 52
..71. Sovetskaya Latviya, 28 Mar 52
"72. Sovetskaya Litva, 16 Feb 52
73. Kommunist, 22 Mar 52
74. Bakinskiv Rabochiy, 26 Mar 52
75. Ibid., 25 Mar 52
76. Pravda Vostoka, 24 Jan 52
77. Moscow, Sotsialisticheskoye Sel'akoye Khozyaystvo, No 9, 1951
78. Pravda Vostoka, 13 Feb 52
79. Moscow, Masloboyno Zhirovaya Promyshlennost', No 2, 1952
80. Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 7 Feb 52
81. Trud, 9 Feb 52
8?. Moscow, Rybnoye Khozyaystvo, No 3, 1952
83. Leninskoye Znamya, 26 Mar 52
84. Ibid., 30 Mar 52
85. Sovetskaya Estoniya, 26 Feb 52
86. Ibid., 8 Jan 52
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Pravda, 23 Mar 52
sovortskaya Estoniya, 6 Mar 52
Ibid., 1 Mar 52
Ibid., 21 Feb 52
Sovetskaya Latviya, 14 Mar 52
Pravda, 7 Feb 52
Rybnoye ffiiozyaystvo, Nc 1, 1952
Kiev, Pravda Ukra1ny,.2 Feb 52
Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 26 Feb 52
Pravda Vostoka, 12 Jan 52
Vechernyaya Moskva, 29 Mar 52
Moscow, sakbarnaya Promyshlennost', No 3, 1952
Ibid., No 1, 1952
sovetekaya Moldaviya, 15 Mar 52
Moscrnr, Tabak, No 2 1952
Vinodeliye i Vinogradarstvo, No 1, 1952
gazakhatanBkya PrN-ds, 31 Jan 52
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