POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC NEWS FROM YUGOSLAVIA

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000100100004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: January 4, 2017
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: December 19, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6
STAT

~
f
t:
t'
I`
d
l
4
~ d
T~.~tle t POLL ~L A~'D ~CO~OMIQ lI~WB ~'AO~t Yt~09LhVIA
STAT
F
1
t
~ i
{ ~
1
r
C, t
r d
9
E~
e
t
oF~
1',
�
,I
f
t-
il. ~.i: i
~ , a
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012J05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6

 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6

.,,,..,,.m.~
~
att~ro~ ~ ~uw~e To
earta woa~e ~xo~vvsA
Belgrade, 3 Jiauary Oa Deaeaber l
9~9, Yugorlav rcieatif'ic ~rorkerr
wet aided p~iret by the federal government ar a rewar
d !or their rciontilfo
work sad rerearch, aeret
olore, thero priroe have sot been gives to writerr
or anti
rte, A large part o! the 84~ awardr dirtributed, ~aouatia to a tot
6 ~
oi' about 10,000,004 dSaarr; went to the Bert workerr is t
he rcientilic field.
The largert price for rcientific work sad rerultin rer
B earth, 120,000
dinarr, war awarded to Baar 8ametr, head o! the a
S rtitute of Chemirtry o!
the Slovene Academ4r of 8ciencer at L~ubl~ana, for hir "Chemic
al 8tudier" sad
for hir work oa the production of metallur ice
g l coke from Yugorlav coal,
Sir work relating to the chemietr~r o! starch ie 1~nown
throughout the rcientific
world.
Aa award of 100,000 dinarr war divided between nr~ Krecimir
8elenovica
prolerror at the Univerrity of Zagreb, !or hir rerearch is or
genic chemtrtry,
and Pavle 8a4ic, proferror at the Univerrit o! e
Y 8 /grade,. !or hir work
is the field of low temperaturer. ~gineere Di rman and
p Sirleveki received
a prize of 100,000 diaarr !or their point work
in creating sew varietier of
maize, runfloarerr, sad early end late wheat, Scientific w
orkerr rewarded f`or
having elevated and organized scientific w
ork included Fie~ix Lore, proterror
at the University of L~ubl~ana, who or ized t
~ he Mechanical tartitute, and
Miloven Hol suit w r
~ , ho organized the 8ydrotechnical tartitute
~YHLOFI~IIT OF T8E B~ II~~TRY Ik' Y0408LAYIA ~
a
a
IIq
Belgrade, 3 January The production of he I
mP in Yugoslavia ~ 1949 I
reached the level of production planned to be
reached by 1980 ~ The tote], i
i
yield o! hemp war +rlmort raven timeer ar much ar that o
$ 194, The production
o! he~gp fiberr war S03 percent star
~ than in 1947,
~ 8emp production iri ~gorlav3a beFore the war dsd .
net scan ratiri'y tore
Heads o! the country ~ r 'textile Sndurt , ~ At
rY peerent the hemp iadurtry not
f
only ratirfier the needs of ,
~ ~gorlavia but afro producer hemp For export
. ~
. ,l,
E
i
.
#,t__
y i Y # f t i' 'h' . ~
~ ~
,.ri ~
c
~ ~ ~ ~ ~
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012J05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6

 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6
'F-,
z . ' ~y
~ ~
s
';,'si.
f
A, ~ ;
y,,F;,
k
Dour heap rpfnning�miilr haw bean pub into o~eratio~a in the Yo~v alone
rinoe the ~ibe.ration~ Production will roon begin ~n a fi!'th ~il~ in the
Yo~vvdina, and in another in 8ornia~ Six astir millr are is procear o! being
d~tlr~i~~te~ in t~ ~O~YOd~~ ~ fi~er0ur Odd wi~~r throughor~t the 00'4~It~'~I'
have beoa renovated and enlarged and flair oapa~ity greetlY increased ~ llor-~
o! the reachiner !or manufacturing hemp libera haw been t?~rairhed by Yugoslav
factorter
f
BMW BRIBE C0r6TAt~CTRD AT RIJlKA
Belgrade, 3 January The Titograd, the fourth of a series o! motor
rbipr !or parreagerr and cargo, with a tonnage o! 4,000 tour, and the Proleterka~
a new tug, wrre launched 2 January 1950 at Ri~e~ca $a~bor.
~evea new vessels, lour o! the Titograd type and three tugs, were con-
rtructed is the Rijeka shipyards is 1949, There shipyards hate also repaired
several rbipr and constructed a Mart luraace, which they were obliged to
build following a break is relations with Raet ~Ruropean countries.
DIBCOYBRY OP 1fBW DBP08IT8 OF COAL ABD GRAPBITB III CROATIA
Belgrade, 3 January I~ortant deposits o! brown coal of high calorific
value have been discovered at the foot o!' the Papule and Kradi~a Mountains and
i
iA the Posage~ Yalley in Croatia. 8o~e deposits o~ aoal have also been dis-
covered in the D~akovo district and some graphite deposits in the lie?sice
district,
ACTTYITY OF T8E TOBACCO IpBTITUTB AT PRIL'gP
Belgrade, 4 January The Tobacco Institute at P~ilep, Macedonia, in
1949 made numerous didcoverie s already being put into practice in the pro-
~i,
duction o! tobacco in Yugoslavia ? On the initiative o! this Inrtitut~e, the
u
i''
cultivation o!' "I~ahorlca", a rariey o~ tobacco rich is nicotine, will soon

r ~ ~ begin is Macedonia ~ "Mahorka" will be used exclusively ar raw maters_al i'ar
the nicotine i'actory at 8kopl~e.
F
Anew method oi' fermentation, developed at the Institute, ma~ar it possible
t ~ - a :1u1
t
2 i lA
A Y.
.,Tile ~ ~ 4 SII ~ 6} I ~d f14wR
~u r~~x
a c .
i ~ ~ ~ i _ .......w ' ~ i. r ~ r r Y fKl '~~~If ~ ~ ; ~~j ~ 1 I~N~, t~F~~,
~ r t; r a ~ ~ ~ i r ~ P' )
;l s k s~f _ ~ ~~r i i s ~YnNleb.~ _
a,, ? ~ z, ~ a, ~
~ 'r ~ ~s[[ r~r;zr
~ ~ ' S ~ ~7" i~ h ~ f j. y
~ nY 1 ) f� 4 i~~~~~~ t
''.l i z YS ~'~5~~.. -
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012J05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6 ~ , ; � , t : ~ ~
~

 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6
W.~_.~,.
i
f
t
~I ,
F
l
k
1
}
r_
11
+S
j~
f
to ~errent the product code tan day` at a1~ tree oi' tho year instead o~
.
xditing eewral danthe alter the harvoat to be abYe to great tobacco indue�
trially~
Aoeearch to aorbat d~eeaeoe and parasites ox tobacco has bola e~tectod e
at this institute ~ A product has been propared which will bo usod e~~ectively
~n tbi~ regard
Large quantities oi' coed o! the best varieties o! bobaeco produced at
the institute haw been distributed to produoer~s
T~ ALBAZRAl11GITIOgAL 1?~ORITY Ig 1~OA0
Belgrade, 6 January The x0,000 members o! for Albanian minority in
xontene~o who bad no rights before the war are today represented in all the
agencieo o! the people's governments 16� members of the minority have been
elected to the plenary aseetiblies o! the local cad district people's councils.
Six Albanian deputise, elected to the IfationaY Asrembly alter the war, pax-
ticipate equally xith the other people's representatives in the solution of
all questions
The ~e~ers oi' the Albe~nian minority had no opportunity to study their
1
i
native tongue is prexsr Yugbalavia ~ Today, instruction in the Alb rn language
io given in 34 elementary schools, xhich are attended by 3,000 children o!
i ~
this ne~tianai ~ainority, The secondary school at Ulcin~ o!lers the opportunity
to pursue their studies ~ r
The people's governeaents have organized a large netxvr~c o! courses to
caro~bat illiteracy among the Albanians, 9� percent o! whom were dlliterate,
These courses have redaced this percentage to 30 percent
F
~r ~t
t f

` r
~~rr o~ sz~v AaASCVr~r ~o~~ s~ ~Y
Belgrade, 6 ~uauary Tbs l9?~ plan !or production o! agricultural
f, machines xae !ullillsd ahead of schedule ~ Yugorlaw factories !or agricultural
maa~?ines and tools pPOduced and delivered !ro�7 to ~'~0 percent mare products
.3.
r
i
1
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012J05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6

 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6
_.._._t
I +
~ ~..1 k !y P � ~ Pi
`f de~endtag oo the triad o! maohine or tool, than io Z9~
yore than 40!,0'00 horee�drawa plowo wero Dent to the vi~ogee ae
~a 1g4g,
i,.
t
oogpared with ~6,00o in 194, Wore than ?4,400 horee�drawa harra~re against
about l0 000 cultivatoro agoinet x,640 ~ lam: 300 eor~tire
Y4, 400 to ig48, ,
er of w!
agaSnrt goo in 1g48, X80 threehero agaiaet g30 in X948, and a nub
chines o! various riser produced by the natio~ul lactorier ~ ~
chi~aei wbicb were sported before the war are currently
~aerour other ma
roduced in Yugorlav lactorier, n~ta~lys chemical fertiliser rpreaderr, brain
P
ecrneerr, reaperr, hand and mechanical prearer, ~,arge and omall threrherrrrtraw
elevatoro, etc,
The Yugorlav agricultural machine induotry it scheduled to produce thir
year almort all the modern agricultural machines used in rati0nsli$ed culti�
~~~Ir scheduled to produce in 1951 add
nation o! the land, to addition, t~ ,
lgS2 Dome dosenr of machiner ruck sr wheat end corn cambineo ~ Production of
a retie s o~ tractorr o! Yugorlav make, the "iTdarnil~" and the "Zadruga", will
begin during the second quarter o! thir year. The prototypes o! there tractorr
have completed experimental Work ruccerrfully, xquipped with g0-horsepower
ecgineo, they cad eaoily work lour fields rimulteneously~ Production on a
eerier of b0-horsepower Diesel caterpillar trectoro is elro to be wnderte~Cen
at the sad o! this year T~ir year Yugorlav factorise gill produce tractor
lows rollerr, cultivators, ~rheat rowerr, beet plows, potato planters asd
p ~
di rs etc. They will oleo produce come tractors which can perform several
~ , ,
opeaticx~~ rim~ultaaeourly sand gill be particularly suitable i'or work in mo~n-
"
tour sectionr
f
The leaderr of the Cominform countries bane tried to ie~pede the mecha� ~
1
a trade I
niration ~pf Yugoslav agriculture ~ B~angary, for example, by virtue of
eement, war ecbeduled to deliver end inrtall equipment !or a large modern
ta' _"ir"
agriculal machine factory fo he production o! a rerieo o! threoherr, ~
selectors, reapers, tractor plover, end cultivators ~ Put lhuagar~r reseed to
keep its agreement, 'rugoslevia has established the "Pobeda" Combine, a ner+
enterprise for the production of agricultural machiner and tools at Povi $ad~
~a I
~
5,
tiq.
� ~ �
l y~tij
~N' `
y 4, ~ J tt

~ 1 ~ .'t
~
. ...r
S:
t -
~ ,
r
i ,~�t
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012J05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6

 Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6

_ _ m,
~ ~ ~
( 1
.r
r~
.
T~
cad bea en~er~d the e~cietiag agriaulturel machine ~eator~ei ~ ThrouBh y
oalar in the production aepeal~t~ os the loundr~r et Oai~ek, a daii~ pro�
66
t~
duatfon off' X00 pxowe, rurpaeeing the apeoit~? off' the ieatory ~rhioh 8u 5
A~~~Qd t0 lqu~~~ b!!~ lltte~l~: ,y~ler~ "~ob~~n $A~4-
tor~r et ~o~i Bed end t1~ e~riaulturel maabiae factory et Zlu~a gill b` ,
put into operation
as
k,.
I .
r j ~
i
1
1~
t~
Declassified in Part -Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012J05/25 :CIA-RDP82-000398000100100004-6 j