SPECIALIZED FARMS IN RUMANIA

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110034-0
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 34
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture, rice, cotton,
HOW Milk
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Bucharest, Berlin
DATE
PUBLISHED 6 - 28 Nov 1952
LANGUAGE Rumanian; German
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INFORMATION 1952
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SOURCE Newspapers as indicated,
SPECIALIZED FARMS IN RUMANIA
STEFAN PLAVAT COILTIVEIS RICE HARVEST -- Bucharest, Vista Capitalei, 20 Nov 52
Fifty peasant families of Sudeti Commune, Slobozia Raion, formed the Stefan
Plavat Collective in 1950. The collective had a membership of 460 families in
1952.
Both in 1950 and 1953, this collective had better yields for most crops
than individual peasants of the commune.
Their most important crops were cotton and rice. The harvest of rice in
this collective exceeded all other rice yields in the regiune. Rice was
planted over an area of 100 hectares. When the first planting was planned,
only 8 hectares were intended for rice, but on the recommendation of Adam
Dumitru, secretary of the primary organization, and other communists in the
collective, a plan was set up for planting 100 hectares, of which 84 were to
be for actual planting and the balance for roads and irrigation canals.
The irrigation of the rice plantation was insured throughout the season
by the MPS, which rented to the collective three engines and three pumps.
The harvest started on 15 September 1952. Sixteen plots yielded as much
as 8,000 kilograms of rice kernel per hectare. The other lots yielded up to
5,500 kilograms of rice per hectare. This is twice the 2,800 kilograms origi-
nally expected when the plan was considered. Up to November 1952, some 30
carloads of rice were turned over to the Uniunea Raionelor Cooperative Slobozia
(Union of Cooperatives of Slobozia Raion). This rice has a weight of 59 kilo-
grams per hectoliter, with very little foreign matter.
8 MAI 1921 COLLECTIVE, LIPIA-BOJDANI COMMUNE, HAS SUCCESSFUL RICE HARVEST --
Bucharest, Vista Capitalei, 6 Nov 52
In spring 1952, a general meeting of the 8 Mai 1921 Collective, Lipia-
Bojdani Commune, Caciulati Raicn, decided that the peasants should grow rice.
First, the peasants expected to harvest a maximum of 2,000-3,000 kilograms of
rice per hectare. However, the harvest was 5,375 kilograms of rice per hectare,
with a weight of 57.7 kilograms per hectoliter.
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The rich rice harvest obtained in that collective increased the confidence
of the peasants, who decided to plant 8 hectares of rice in the next sowing
campaign.
COTTON BEING GRCWN IN RUMANIA -- Bucharest, Scanteia, 7 Nov 52
Cotton, which was not grown at all in 1938, was planted over an area of
200,000 hectares in 1952.
COLLECTIVE IN ROSETI COMM CAIARA.SI RAION, OVEE0ULFILdS COTTON PLAN --
Bucharest, Viata Capitalei, 28 Nov 52
Workers and tractor operators at the collective in Roseti Commune, Cal-
arasi Raion, showed great success in their work. Guided by the organization
and supported by the leaders j. Uie collective, workers harvested 20,000 kilo-
grams of cotton in excess of the established plan. This quantity was turned
over to the seed-picking center.
Important work was also done for fall planting in the agricultural sec-
tion of the collective.
DEVELOPN]NT OF ANIMAL. BREEDING ON STATE FARMS -- Berlin, Aussenhandels-
Nachrichten, 26 Nov 52
Rumanian state farms are making major contributions to the development
of animal breeding. The result has been that, compared with 1948, the horse
population has increased by 307 percent; the cattle population, by 496 per-
cent; the sheep population, by 1,208 percent; and the number of swine, by 867
percent.
MILK PRODUCTION IN PLOESTI REGIUNE -- Bucharest, Vista Sindicala, 26 Nov 52
The Gheorghe Doja State Collective is located in Valenii-de-Munte, Ploesti
Regiune. Its Drajna dairy section, and particularly Stakhanovite milkers
Lucretia Resinaru, Felicia Praf, Leonora Gogot, and Voica Negrila, contributed
fully to make their hi?sbandry unit an outstanding one in the country, renowned
for its exceptional breeds of cattle and for the increasing production of milk.
The Ploesti dairy enterprise in Aprolacta daily receives 1,200 liters of milk
from this dairy farm.
Stakhanovite Lucretia Resinaru exceeded planned production in her division
by 15,000 liters in 1951. She takes care of ten cows. All other attendants
fulfilled and even exceeded their quotas in honor of 7 November.
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