IMPROVEMENT IN BULGARIAN STANDARD OF LIVING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090289-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 289
• Publication Date: November 12, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Bulgaria
DATE OF
SUBJECT Economic - General, agriculture
HOW Sociological - Standard of living
PUBLISHEDMonthly periodical
DATE DIST.
/8-- Nov 1952
WHERE
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NO. OF PAGE
S 1
DATE
PUBLISHEDMay 1952
LANGUAGE Bulgarian
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SOURCE Planovo Stooanetvo.
IMPROVEMENT IN BULGARLIN STANDARD OF LIVING
The general volume of Bulgarian production was four times greater in
1951 than in 1939. Since 9 September 1944, new branches of industry have
been set up. The 1951 output of the electrical industry was four times
that of 1939 and that of machine building, 90 times. The chemical industry
and the industries for the production of ores, concentrates, and spare parts
have grown since 1939. With the building of the Stalin Metallurgy Plant for
ferrous metals, domestic metallurgy has been firmly established. Bulgaria
has changed from a country with only light industry to one which is produc-
ing increasing amounts of electric power, ores, hard coal, machinery, chemi-
cals, and building materials.
The number of TKZS (Farm Workers' Cooperatives) reached 2,740 during 1951
and the number of MTS reached 115. Most TKZS prospered. For example, the
TKZS in Bulgarovo, Aytos Okoliya, received about 336 kilograms of wheat per
decare from 1,370 decares and about 341 kilograms of barley per decare from
685 decares. The TICS in Kalonyanovo, Plovdiv Okoliya, received 750 kilogram
of rice in the husk per decare from 500 decares, The average yield of wheat
during 1951 rose 1.4 (,percent as compared to 1950] throughout the country
and the yield of corn, 1.9 fpercent as compared to 195017. Livestock raising
also improved. The T;3ZS in Veselinovo, Yambol Okoliya, received an average
o.' 4.5 kilograms of wool per sheep and 4,600 kilograms from 60 sheep. three
imes as much cotn twiceI.0n
w olentmaterial over twiceasemuch aoaapp threedtimesn as 9much
sugar, and over four times as much in sugar products.
In 1951, 29 million meters of cotton goods, 3 million meters of woolen
goods, over 5 million pairs of leather and rubber shoes, 43,000 stoves, and
43,000 beds were on the market. Twice as much vegetable oil, four times as
much meat, twice as much milk, and more than twice as much soap was available
in 1951 as compared with 1949.
From 1945 to 1949, over 155,000 square meters of land were used for housing
construction. During 1951, over 165,000 workers were sent to labor union rest
homes, and about 225,000 children were sent to children's homes.
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