CROP SITUATION AND RICE RATIONING IN NANAN, FUKIEN

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00810A007300600008-0
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 20, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 10, 2008
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: July 8, 1955
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
This material contains information affecting the National Defense of the United States within the meaning of the Espionage Laws, Title
18, U.S.C. Secs. 793 and 794, the transmission or revelation of which in any manner to an unauthorised person is prohibited by law.
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SUBJECT Crop Situation and Rice
Rationing in Tanana Fukien
DATE OF INFO.
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This is UNEVALUATED
Information
against extravagance, waste, and corruption,
1. Purina the period of Yebrua y to Day 1955.0 the residents of Ian (i 24-56, E
118-31) were greatly affected by the e lati~e effect of .thee years of drought.l 25X1
The food eit?ation had reached its worst peak dhing the period ftom app=lately
larch 1954 through Kay 1955.0 and Waann residents. were allowed to pvrcha a only two
taels of rice per person per day. The rice ration was increased on 5 Rb-y to three
and one-half t8i,e10 per peroon per daya
local Chinese who could afford to get married
which was broken during the week of 14 Lay with four days of heavy rain, A
report from Hong.Iong appearing in the Christian Science Monitor,, 10 June,, 25X1
mentioned that Peiping had admitted that 150,000,000 peasants were .short of
food. In attempting to cope with the situation, which was caused by last
years floods and by this year?s severe drought,, Peiping had initiated measures
were authorized to purchase up to 10 cattieo of rice for their weddings. The
Chinese Commanisst Party cadres were well fedl on the other band, the Comaunisto 25X1
waked the people to be thrifty and to produce more.
3. When the rains fell recently in Nananp the Chinese Comuniots ordered the farmers
to plant rice even though the season for planting had past'. The f ers, who did
not believe that it would do any good to plant the seedlings, were required to 25X1
follow the orders of the Chinese Cobnnist authorities.
1.. The past season?s barley and wheat crop grew only to about four inches in height.
The farmers' had turned the cattle loose in the fields to eat the crops because
there was little or no harvest in the Nanan area. There was neither a peanut.nor
a bean harvest because the sprouts had dried up..
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T'. July 1955
about 100 25X1
Chinese affected by the famine in South China were moving into Macao daily.
Communist authorities in Canton had relaxed restrictions on exit permits to
relieve the food shortage and the unemployment caused by the yeas?=long drought,
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