PLANT INSECT CONTROL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00047R000300200003-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2013
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: August 11, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE_ AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT
CIA-RDP82-00047R000300200003-2 ,
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Plant Insect Control
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1. In the Ukrainian SSR there are three basic methods of plant insect control. These are as
follows: (a) .Aandpicking. As crude as it.may be; this method is widely used and is
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carried on continuously. Whenever a heavy plague of insects threatens, pickers are
mobilized and sent to the area, carload after carload of insects carried away
that had been picked by this method. In addition to handpicking, chickens are also
utilized, being turned loose whenever a heavy plague of insects arrives at an area. (b)
Chemical spraying. Much of this is carried out in the Ukraine. The various agricultural
experimental stations will recommend the type of spray deemed'advisable and forward their
reeommendation to the Minister of Agriculture fez� approval. The Minister will decide when
and what to use. (c) Biological. This method has been used successfully for approximate-
ly 20 years. It consists of breeding certain types of insects that will feed on the parti-
cular plant insect which is destroying the crop. As an example, there is a small' butterfly
prevalent in the Ukraine called Ozgamaga Souka (Latin name - Euxogasegetam Feltis), This -
butterfly attacks and destroys practically every type of crop. Entomologists finally.
discovered and bred numerous types of bugs to combat this butterfly. This bug is known as
Trikogroma-EVaneccens. In addition to this insect destroying insect; entomologists in the
USSR have developed other insects for combatting various types of plagues.
2. The sugar beet industry has almost been wiped out on several occasions by a long nosed bug
known aa the Sugar Beet Long Nose, The Soviet name is Dolgonosik and the Latin name,
BothYnoderee-Punctiventris. The breeding time of this pest is approximately four months.
Each female lays approximately 120 egga. Some of the eggs do not hatch during the four
month period and will lie dormant in the soil for as much as a year.
3. Entomologists in the USSR are continually attempting to combat outbreaks of locusts, grass-
hoppers., etc. Their hardest problem with migratory pests of this type is trying to deter-
mine and predict outbreaks,
Whenever a plague of insects invades an area, there is an organization known as VIZIR, the
All-Union Institute for Defense of Plants that goes 'into action. This .Organization iisssS-
IoCated in Moacow. When the plagfte is reported, workeYs and equipment needed to comhit the
insects are rushed tothe area, This is .a central coordinating organization for all other
agriCultural institutes. It was fgrkerly headed by One ggialgar, who is a brother of the
very well.known Soviet Mathematician. Vavilov, head of the VIM was arrested at one tl.me-
by the NKVD but has since been re/notated ao,boad of the iroltitute.",
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