MAY REPORT ON SOVIET ACERAGE EXPANSION PROGRAM

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80R01443R000200330010-4
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 8, 1998
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: June 8, 1954
• Content Type: BRIEF

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8 June 1954
A. *o and
1. Sower plan to put virgin land into grain cultivation by 1954 of
6 million acres has been exceeded.
2. This area about the size of the
The plan ca Us for 30 million acres of
to grain cultivation by 19550
put
to be settled in the new area by 1955.
populated region
reclamation pro jeci
n for
gait up rapidly.
production of
amounts of other equipment.
A &WUr pram for reci.ginal soil for grain cultivation
has been unsuccessful on two past occasions.
The success of this program to increase grain output binges largely
on favorable weather condi.tic .
to about the size of the state of North x
ship half of the e
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overfuifilled for this year by substantial
plan by 81 pert
;re the two most important regions in the
program.
2. 3urpassing goals in these two areas indicates that Over-all
goals will be exceeded.
culti for s pi
.npower ha
xpc icon for 3954 Of 6 million acres for tale couaxtry as a
whole less than 20 percent, of the total plan a ion ? f 30
.million acres for 1954>1955?
for production that can be
over vinter moutba for most of the now
area s at or below normal.
re deciding factors as to
conditions f+
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