SPECIAL BENEFITS EXTENDED TO THE LANDWIRTSCHAFTLICHE PRODUKTIONSGENOSSENSCHAFTEN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION COLLECTIVES)

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• Document Release Date: May 20, 2010
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• Publication Date: May 2, 1958
• Content Type: REPORT

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INFORMATION REPORT INFORMATION REPORT
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 unauthorized person is prohibited by law.
COUNTRY East Germany
Special Benefits Extended to the
Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsgenossen-
schaften (Agricultural Production
Collectives)
REPORT
DATE DISTR.
NO. PAGES
MAY 1958
DATE OF
INFO.
PLACE &
DATE ACQ.
1.
The following special benefits are extended the LPG's (Agricultural Production
Collectives):
1. Tax reduction.
2. Low-cost credits and state subsidies.
3. Free advice in animal husbandry and agricultural matters.
I+. Special support by the agricultural economy (Agrarwirtschaft).
5. Special aid through the MTS (machine tractor stations).
6. Free agricultural training.
7. Free veterinary care of livestock.
8. Free maintenance of production records of all types of livestock.
9. Reduced delivery quotas; every collective, regardless of type, makes deliveries
according to the Norm established for 5 - 10 hectares; for vegetable products
there is a further reduction of 15 %. Collectives of Type III are extended
a 20 % delivery reduction for animal products; this percentage may, when
necessary, be extended to 35 %-
10. The collectives are not required to adhere rigidly to the Plan. The leeway
in planting and in the maintenance of livestock which they are allowed gives
them an advantage over the private farmers.
11. When they are given the use of so-called free land, deliveries from this land
are fixed at the most at 50 % of those normally required from LPG's. When
necessary, delivery quotas from such land may be cancelled entirely.
12. LPG's which have taken over so-called free lands are not required to fill
delivery quotas from such lands for five years.
13. For each hectare of the so-called free land which an LPG takes over, it receives
a state subsidy of 15Q DME - for increased work on land which is in a bad
state of cultivation.
14. The IPG's have free use of all buildings and land of the OelB's (Oertliche
landw;r=?^haftflche Betriebe - locally administered agricultural enterprises).
The cost of the above benefits extended to the LPG's amounts to more than
DME 2,000,000,000.
Comment, The period during which these costs are incurred is not 25X1
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