USSR AGRICULTURE REPORTS INITIAL DELIVERY PLAN FULFILLMENTS, BEGINS FALL SOWING CAMPAIGN

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CI ASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture, crops
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED USSR
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 - 15 Aug 1952
LANGUAGE Russian
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
DATE DIST. o27oct 1952
NO. OF PAGES 8
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
USSR AGRICULTURE REPORTS
INTTLAI DELIVERY PLAN FULFMLMENTS,
BEGINS FALL SOWIDTG CA!(PAIGN
J1usbe 3 in parentheses refer to appended sources
In the USSR, Jute is grown in Uzbek, Tadzhik, and Kirgiz SSRs. All varieties
grown were developed by Soviet selection stations.
In Turkmen SSR, Jute was sown for the first time in 1950. By 1952, the area
devoted to this crop had increased 6.5 times over 1950 and two times over 1951.
In 1953, it will be further increased by 2,000 hectares.(l)
USSR Crop Progress Report Dated 6 August 1952
The harvest is in full swing is the Ukraine, Moldavia, the Northern Caucasu-,
Don region, Central Asia, and the Transcaucaous; it is developing in the Volga
Region and central and eastern regions of the country.
There are serious combine utilization deficiencies in Kiev_.saya, Odesskaya,
and Poltavakaya oblasts of the Ukraine. In Kievskaya Oblast, almost the entire
grain area has been reaped, but less than 25 F=rcent by combine. in Poltavskaya
Oblast, the plan for combine harvesting has beci.fulfilled less than 33 percent.
In the latter oblast, this year's failure to meet the combining plan is a repeti-
tion of last ,.rear's poor performance.(2)
USSR Crop Progress Report Dated 8 August 1952
The harvest is moving further and farther north. Reaping of winter grain
hes begun in kovkhozes and sovkhozes of Estonia and Latvia, as well as in
Sverdlovskaya, Omskaya, Tomskava, Irkut&kaya, and Chitinskaya oblasts, and
Krasnoyarekiy, Khabarovskiy, and Primorekiy krays. Selective reaping of rye has
begun in Komi -Permya tskiy Natsional.'nyy Okrug. The harvest has not yet begun in
Kamchatka; there, rye and wheat have only begun to head.
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ults in the kolkho2e8FirsOft
Shkotovski?Fa,ndaSpasskiyfrayons inL Primorskiy yield 8 Many
receiving an average rye and barley yi ~d of up to 20 quintals per hectare. yIne
Khaberovskiy Kray, leading kolkhozes o^ Leninskiy and Stalinskiy rayons are thresh-
ing 16 - 17 quintals per hectare.
Kolkhozes and sovkhozes are completing reaping of spiked grain crops in the
southern portion of the country. Some rayons of the Crimea and Ftavropol'skiy
Kray have reported completion. The yield plan was considerably exceeded for all
grain crops in kolkhozes of Levokumskiy Rayon of Stavropol'skiy Kray; winter wheat
on tens of thousands of hectares there averaged 100 pud per hectare.
in Kazakhstan, more than 10,000 combines are engaged in the harvest. In
Stalingradskaya Oblast, es throughout the Lower Volga Region, harvesting condi-
tions are difficult. Cool and rainy weather delayed ripening of winter grains.
was shortened The interval between the beginning of the winter grain and spring grain harvest
was that some MTSsofethel blast hadunotncompleted erepair rof tractorsebeforeithety
harvest began.
In the Urals, sowing of winter crops began simultaneously with reaping of
grain crops. Many kolkhozes of Tyumenskaya and Kurganskaya oblasts are sowing
winter rye. Sowing is being carried out on well prepared summer fallow.
Preparations for sowing of winter crops are being made in the Ukraine. In
Stalinskaya Oblast, the area sown to winter wheat is to be increased by almost
45,000
Cotton of Tad, Turkmen's, and Uzbekistan hectares over 1951. Summer fallow is in excellent condition for sowing.
for mechanized harvesting ofhcotton. The number of cotton-harvestingemachinesn in
MTS of Turkmen SSR is twice as great as in 1951.
In Sumskaya Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, kolkhozes are hr-vesting hemp. It is
planned to harvest more than 50 percent of the crop with tractor-drawn hemp binders.
Harvesting is in p"ogress in almost all flax-growing regions. In Armenia and
Azerbaydzhan, as well as in Zakarpatskaya Oblast in the Ukraine, early grapes are
being picked.(3)
USSR Crop Progress Report Dated 15 August 1952
In Stavropol'skiy Kray, 12 rayons have fulfilled the plan for grain delivery.
Kolkhozes of many rayons in Dagestanskaya ASSR have also fulfilled the plan. Al-
though the harvest began only recently in Primorskiy Kray, grain procu ement is in
full swing, and kclkhozes or the kray are striving to fulfill the delivery plan in
August.
The sowing campaign is expanding every day. Rye and wheat are being sown in
the central regions of the country, Kazakhstan, and the Ukraine. Kolkhozes are
considerably expanding the area sown to winter crops. In Kazakhstan, it will in-
crease almost 50,000 hectares over 1951. Kolkhozes of Kostromskaya Oblast will
almost double the area sown to winter wheat. In the Ukraine, winter wheat will be
sown on about one million more hectares than in 1951. g is
being
rried out on 12 millionnmore ton. of ca
grotechuical
local fertilia
the fields thanias,
of this time in 1951. Many kolkhozes of the republic grew lupine on their summer
fallowed fields and are now plowing it under to fertilize the soil. In Kurskaya
Oblast, 75 percent of winter crop sowing is being carried out on well-prepared
clean summer fallow and high-yielding varieties of seed are being widely used.
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Harvesting of oil-bearing crops is in progress in many regions. Mustard is
being harvested in Astrakhanskaya, Stalingradskaya, and Rostovskaya oblasts and
seed flax in Uzbek and Tadzhik SSRs. Seed flax is setting seed in the Kuban' and
Moldavia; it is in full flower in most areas of the Volga Region, Northern Caucasus,
and central chernozem zone.(4)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for hay
mowing and ensilage storage in kolkhozes of the republic, as of 10 August
(5):
Oblast Natural Grasses Mowed sew? r e ,.____ ,
Tallinskaya
Pyarnuskaya
92
59
85
88
55
78
92
50
The harvest is developing slowly in the republic as a whole. As of 10 Aug-
ust, a total of 13,600 hectares had been reaped.(6)
Animal husbandry is a leading branch of agriculture in Rizhskaya Oblast.
More than 45 percent of the total number of head of cattle and sheep in the re-
public are concentrated in the oblast.(7)
Kolkhozes of the following oblasts have fulfilled the plan for delivery of
hay to the state: Polutskaya and Grodnenskaya, on 30 July (8); Band Minchskaya
and Brestskaya on 5 August; Molodechnenskaya, on 4 August (9)
; and Minskaya,
on 8 August. Delivery of hay in Minskaya Oblast is continuing (10).
Many olkhoze ized mannerkand aressuccesof the
theiplan nforrdeliiveries to the state.(11).
The following table show percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for harvest-
ing of grain crops, hay mowing, and ensilage storage in kolkhozes of the republic,
as of 10 August (12):
All Grain
Cr
Grain
Natural Sc+n
Oblast
ops
Reared
Winter Grain
Cro
R
Crops
Flax
Grasses Grasses Ensilage
p-
e8ed
Threshed
Pulled
Mowed Mow
d
e
Stored
Baranovichskaya
49.9
92.1
o3.2
7_1
15.6
25..7
75.2
84.1
40.6
Brestskaya
57.4
100.0
25.0
12.8
98.8
63.0
41.9
Gomel'skaya
G
d
38.1
82.1
35.5
14.6
79.6
47.2
46.7
ro
nenskaya
50.9
100.0
10.6
13.1
104.4
42.8
40.6
Miuskaya
12.4
31.6
6.7
9.1
93.2
47.9
38.9
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All Grain
Grain
Ob
Crops
Winter Grain
C
Natural Sown
last
Reaped
Cro sReaned
rop
Thies
lhzeshed
Flax
Pull
d
Glasses Grasses Ensilage
M
l
e
Mowed
Mowed
Stored
ogi
evskaya
18.8
45.7
1.1.2
11_?
0, ,
Molodechnenskaya
23.6
52 0
2.3
0
Pinskaya
6
.7
93.7
56.7
31.0
1.5
100.0
17.3
15.1
AR o
_
_
P
l
-
30.5
24.4
66.4
111.1
37
2
o
otskeya
9.5
2,--5
1.4
o
OZ .
.
Vitebskaya 7.0 18 6
8.0 12.2 76.9 64.2
In 1951, 76.4
MTS of the republic fulfilled the plan for shallow plowing of stubble
27.1 percent, preparation of winter fallow 60.2 percent, and preparation of black
summer fallow 14.5 percent.(13)
BY 5 August, more than 50 percent of the spiked grain crops in the Ukraine
had been reaped. Many rayons in the southern portion of the republic reaped their
winter and early spring grains in 15 - 18 days.
The plan for delivery of grain to the state has been fulfilled by of the repv'lic; these have also provided themselves with winter and sl.rin rayons
g seed. Kolkhozes of Izmail'skaya, Stalinskaya, IOiersonska , grain
Nikolayevskaya, and Zakarpatskaya oblasts are making Yes Zing t,
livery plan. In many rayons the procurement points progress in
g princg the ye-
de-
wheat, so that wheat makes u) a high tt proportion of ft no all are
grain receiving received. (14)
Fall sowing has begun in the Ukraine. The area to be sown to winter wheat
in the republic is to increase by almost one million hectares. Sowing of winter
crops is pro-eeding at a higher agrotechnical level than in 1951.(5)
Moldavian SSR
Sovkhozes of the Ministry of Food Industry Moldavian SSR have fulfilled the
plan for delivery of grain to the state (not including maize) 101.1 percent. De-
livery of grain in excess of plan is continuing.(15)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for grain
harvesting and plowing for winter crops in kolkhozes of the republic, as of
10 August (16):
Okrug
Spiked Grain
Crop_ a R~aned
Spiked Grain
Crops Reaped
by Combine
Crops from
Reaped Area
Threshed
Straw
Stacked
Plowing for
Winter Crops
Bel'tskiy
97.8
81.2
33.0
84.5
2A.5
Kagul'skiy
98.0
92.7
38.5
85.6
29.1
Kishinevskiy
98.8
82.8
49.7
84.7
27.2
Tiraspol'skiy
98.8
89.0
33.9
74.2
37.2
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The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for mow-
ing of grasses and ensilage crops in kolkhozes and for tractor work by MTS of the
republic, as of 10 August (17);
Okru
S
Sown
Grasses
Mowed
Natural
Grasses
Ensilage
Crops
Tractor
Worked
Mowed
Mowed
W
k
Per 1; -hp
Bel'tskiy
46.0
68.6
24.3
or
49.9
Tractor ha
214.4
Kagul'skiy
73.3
90.7
48.8
56.0
256.0
Kishinevskiy
48.4
83.5
39.3
47.4
181.6
Tiraspol'skiy
67.6
81.3
40.0
56.0
259.3
Georgian SSR
The Ministry of Agriculture Georgian SSR reports that, as of 1 August, 189,006
hectares of grain had been reaped in the republic, including 132,940 hectares by com-
bine. Kolkhozes of Tbilisi Oblast had reaped 178,743 hectares.
Mowing of natural grasses is continuing. As of 1 August, they had been mowed
on 75 percent of the area planned. The plan for hay mowing had been slut 89.9 per-
cent in Tbilisi Oblast and 81.1 percent in Yugo-0setskaya Avtonomnaya Oblast.
As of the same date, tobacco-growing kolkhozes of the republic had cut and
strung 13,844,755 string-meters (shnurometry) of tobacco, including 8,665,300 in
Abkbazskaya ASSR, 4,540,107 in Tbilisi Oblast, and 659,348 in Adiharskaya ASSR.(18)
The Ministry of Agriculture Georgian SSR reports that, as of 5 August, 241,260
hectares of grain had been reaped in the republic, including 158,120 hectares by
combine. Kolkhozes of Tbilisskaya Oblast had reaped 223,581 hectares of spiked grain
crops, including 154,311 hectares by combine.
Yowiug of nati.ral grasses is continuing. Kolkhozes of Tbilisskaya Oblast have
considerably exceeded the plan for hay mowing.
As of 5 August, tobacco-growing kolkhozes of the republic had cut and strung
19,566,729 string-meters of tobacco, including 11,915,400 in Abkhazskaya ASSR,
6,780,119 in Tbilisskaya Oblast, and 871,210 in Adzharskaya ASSR.(19)
As of 1 August, kolkhozes of Kutaisskaya Oblast had fulfilled the 1952 plan
for wool delivery to the state 107 percent. Deliveries are continuing.
In 1951, MTS of the republic fulfilled the plan for tractor work as a whole
101.1 percent; but out of 19 basic types of work included in the plan as a whole,
they failed to fulfill the individual plans for 12 types. Of 80 MTS, 44 did not
fulfill the plan for sowing of spring crops, 45 that for preparation of winter
fallow, and 61 that for interrow cultivation of row crops.(20)
It has been proven in practice that when sheep are shorn in fall, the gross
wool clip is increased by more than 40 percent. This is due to the factandthat asvitamin-
sheep graze on alpine pastures during the Gunner and consume succulent
rich grasses, their woo! growth is such more intensr than when they are on fodder
during the winter.(21)
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Fall shearing of sheep has begun in the republic. This fall, all sheep and
lambs will be shorn with electric clippers. For the start of fall shearing, MTS
of the republic received 38 new sets of shearing equipment; another 32 are ex-
pected in a few days. Then, the number of machines for electric shearing will be
almost 50 percent greater than it was in spring 1952.(22)
Azerbaydzhan SSR
By 8 August, sovkhozes of the Ministry of State Farms Azerbaydzhan SSR had
fulfilled the plan for grain deliveries to the state 101 percent.(23)
As of 5 August, Nakh*chevanskaya ASSR had fulfilled the plan for delivery of
grain to the state 104.3 percent, including wheat 108.4 percent. As of this date,
140,659 more pud of grain had been delivered than as of the same date 1951.
Kolkhozes are completing their seed funds for the 1953 harvest. Delivery of grain
to the state for MRS services is continuing.
In 1952, only 17 out of 43 MTS of the Ministry of Agriculture and cnly 8 out
of 50 MTS of the Ministry of Cotton Growing fulfilled the plan for preparation of
summer fallow.(24)
In the spring of 1952, 14,000 hectares of fruit orchards were established,
1,500 hectares were planted to berries, a..3 more than 3,000 hectares of vineyards
planted in kolkhozes of the RSFSR.(25)
In Altayskiy Kray, the days are warm and sunny. Grain is ripening rapidly.
In some kolkhc:.s, reaping of winter rye and barley has begun.(26)
Kazakh SSR
About 12,000 combines are working on the fields of the republic; they will
harvest more than 90 percent of the grain crop. Kolkhozes of 14 rayons have ful-
filled the plan for delivery of grain to the state.(27)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plans for hay
mowing and ensilage storage in kolkhozes of the republic, as of 10 Augus..(28)
Sovkhozes
Ensilage Area Hay Ensilage
Stored Mowed Procured Stored _
39.3
64.0
26.7
21.6
33.0
47.5
19.0
11.0
79.6
50.3
37.9
76.8
76.1
79.4
77.4
62.8
10.0
44.6
65.4
35.7
26.3
41.5
76.6
34.4
14.1
30.6
60.2
26.4
13.5
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Kolkhozes
Oblast
Area
Mowed
Hay
Procured
Akmolinskaya
80.0
20.5
Aktyubinskaya
69.9
37.3
Alma-Atinskaya
72.4
53.2
Dzhambulakaya
106.9
60.8
Gur'yevskaya
49.4
36.9
Karagandinskaya 74.5
38.3
Kokchetavskaya
88.8
32.3
Kustanayskaya
72.1
35.7
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Sovkhozes
Oblast
Area
M
Hay
Ensilage
Area
Hay
Ensil
Kzyl-0rdinskaya
owed
55.1
Procured
41.5
Stored
47.3
Mowed
38.1
Procured
17.4
age
Stored
43.2
Pavlodarskaya
86.1
25.1
39.7
70.4
28.3
17.3
Semipalatsinskaya
69.5
32.1
62.0
51.7
37.6
40.1
Severo-Kazakhstanskaya
83.2
40.2
17.5
93.0
41.5
37.2
Taldy-Kurganskaya
69.4
43.2
P6.o
45.9
47.4
55.2
Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaya
68.5
31.9
84.0
Yuzhno-Kazakhatanskaya
77.3
58.8
41.6
72.5
109.0
115.9
Zapadno-Kazakhstanskaya
6o.9
22.2
22.6
Kolkhozes of the republic as a whole not only failed to meet the Three-year
Livestock Development Plan (1949 - 1951) but even reduced the number of sheep in
1951 by 1.5 percent.(29)
The following table shows percentage fulfillment of the 1952 plan for fodder
procurement in kolkhozes of the republic, as of 10 August (30):
Natural Grasses Alfalfa Mowed Ensile e
Oblast Mowed S Coarse Fodder
(sec
d
on
cutting) Stored Stored
Dzhalal-Abadskaya 85.6 29.7 80.1 39.3
Frunzenskaya 89.2
42.4 26.1
Issyk-Kul'skaya 20.7
78.1
Oshskaya 83.2 33.5 91.8 35.2
Talasskaya 72.0 21.9 71.4 26.2
Tyan'-Shan'skaya 4o.5
82.5 20.3
K. Dikambayev, secretary of Frunzenskaya Oblast Committee KP(b), writes that
kolkhozes, sovkhozes
and 14TS of th
,
e oblast have fulfilled the 1952 plan for d
of grain
t
o
l
e
ivery
days earlier
kolkhozes
and
in 1951
I
1
.
n
952,
considerabl
(31)
y
Y more grain than in 1951.
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1. Ashkhabad, Turkmenskaya Iskra, 6 Aug 52
2. Moscow, Pravda, 6 Aug 52
3. Moscow, Trud, 8 Aug 52
4. Ibid., 15 Aug 52
5. Tallin, Sovetskaya Estoniya, 12 Aug 52
6. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 14 Aug 52
7. Ibid., 3 Aug 52
8. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 2 Aug 52
9. Ibid., 7 Aug 52
10. Ibid., 10 Aug 52
11. Moscow, Izvestiya, 10 Aug 52
12. Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 13 Aug 52
13. Ibid., 14 Aug 52
14. Yerevan, Kommunist, 8 Aug 52
15. Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 3 Aug 52
16. Ibid., 12 Aug 52
17. Ibid., 13 Aug 52
18. Tbilisi, Zarya Vostoka, 5 Aug 52
19. Ibid., 9 Aug 52
20. Ibid., 6 Aug 52
21. Kommunist, 8 Aug 52
22. Ibid., 14 Aug 52
23. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 8 Aug 52
24. Ibid., 7 Aug 52
25. Moscow, Moskovskaya Pravda, 5 Aug 52
26. Pravda, 1 Aug 52
27. Izvestlya, 15 Aug 52
28. Alma??Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 13 Aug 52
29. Ibid., 7 Aug 52
30. Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 14 Aug 52
31. Ibid., 10 Aug 52
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