PROGRESS OF STATE FARMS IN RUMANIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110035-9
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 35
• Publication Date: May 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION vo?~'mErrr~Ar,
SECURITY INFORMATIOfi
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Rumania
SUBJECT
HOW
PUBLISHED
WHERE
PUBLISHEC
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
Economic -Agriculture, atste farms,
tivization
collec-
Daily newspaper
DATE DIST. y
/ 1953
/
Bucharest
N0. OF PAGES 2
9 - 25 Nov 1952
Rumanian
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT N0.
State farms play an important role in the socialist transformation
work of agriculture in Rumania. These state farms, which use moderr_ equip-
ment and are supervised by agricultural engineers of high qualifications.
must convince peasants by their example of the great advantages of agricul-
ture over extended areas according to advanced methods.
At the same time, state farms must supply raw materials for the light
industry, must contribute to the growth oP the state's centralized fund,
and must, by means of exchange, supply collectives, TOZ, and working peas-
ants with seed of good quality and animals of superior breed.
The state gives great attention to state farms. Only in the last few
years were state farms able to increase their machines and agricultursl?im-
plementa. Compared with 1949, for example, the number of tractors increased
393 Percent and the number of threshers 346 percent. Special attention was
given to the raising and development of animal species; the cumber of animals
was increased and varieties were improved. State farms have 307 percent
more cattle, 496 percent more bovines, 1,208 percent more sheep, and 876 per-
cent more hogs in 1952 than in 1948.
State farms have worked constantly towards the increase of crops per
hectare. Wheat production was 411 percent greater in 1952, barley 461 per-
cent greater, and oats 253 percent greater than in 1948. The same attention
is given by state farms to the growing of industrial plants. The area planted
to cotton, flax hemp, and sugar beets has increased considerably. At the
same time, the yield per hectare for these plants has also increased.
State farms delivered thousands cf tons of first-giislity uereals to
the state in 1952, contributing at the same time to the supply of city mar-
kets with vegetables and fruit. They also sent large quantities of cotton
to industry. They gave seed and special breeds of animals to collectives,
TOZ, and working farmers. State Parms have sent to collectives and people's
councils 114 stallions, 4,392 bulls, 19,616 hogs, 12,820 cows and calves,
68,254 goats, 5,515 sheep and lambs, and 221,536 fowl of the best varieties.
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STATE FARM CARRIEg ON El(pp;g~~+S __ Ducharest, Romania Libera, 6 Nov 52
Alexandra Sahia state farm ie located in Manastirea Commune, Oltenia
Raton. An agricultural experimental station was set up in 1950 on the recom-
mendation of a group of visiting Soviet sovkhoz members, A special type of
Soviet wheat was planted, yielding 10,000 kilograms of kernels per hectare.
Cht+aiza, yieldin8 7,800 kilograms of fodder per hectare, and many other nex
plants so far unlmoxn in Rumania xere introduced.
Hoxever, climatic conditions of the country are not favorable to these
new plants. Members of the Michurin Club are raging a serious fight to rver-
come difficulties of acclimatization. The delicate saplings of orange, lemon,
tangerine, and fig trees must be cexeP.ully treated and guarded agaLnst ~d-
vers~ weather conditions. Nevertheless, it is gratifying to see that they
have grown and survived, Another danger came from mosquitoes and other in-
aecte from the neighboring marshes. Engineer Dumitru Boacota spent many
days in studying means of overcoming this. He found the answer in the Mich-
urin methods, Eucalyptus trees, which grow Tap to 5 meters a year and which
drain the marshes with their giant roots, were planted.
Recetttly workers at the Michurdn laboratory tried to plant tea shrubs
of types that will survive in the climate of the country,
STATE FARMIZIG ENCOIRLIGID -- Bucharest, Romania Libera, 25 Nov 52
Serious political xork must be spread among peasants, to point out to
them that i~t 13 necessary to switch from extensive to intensive agriculture
to raise the standard of living.
Only by using the most improved tractors and machines and the most a~L-
vanced agricultural techniques can production per hectare be considerably
increased, more cereal and industrial plants, orchards, and vineyards grown,
amd more livestock raised,
State fares are the beet example and proof of this success. In addition,
new methods are used at more than 1,650 collectives and more than 1,700 TOZ
in the country. The success of collectivization ie illustrated by the col-
lective in Pretea Muresana Commune, 21ias Raion, which obtained 1,810 kilo-
grams of wheat, rye, and barley per hectare, while individual farms in
neighboring villages obtained only 800 kilograms per hectare.
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