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USSR REPORT ~
AGRICULTURE
(FOUO 2/81)
C~NTE~v~i J
- AGRO-~CONOMICS AND ORGANIZATION
- Improved Planning Called for in Seed Production
- (G. I. Larionov; SELEKTSIYA I SEMENOVODSTVO, Mar-Apr 81).. 1
TILLING AND CROPPING TECHNOLOGY
Importance of Increased production of Corn Grain Stressed
(A. I. Zholobov; KUKURUZA, Mar-Apr 81) 5
FORESTRY AND TIMBER
- Production Initiative Promoted in Timber Industry
. ~ (LESNAYA PROMYSHLENNOST', Sep 80) 17
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AGRO-ECONOMICS AND ORGANIZATION
IMPROVED PLA.NNING CA.LLED FOR IN SEED PRODUCTION
~ Moscow SELEKT~IYA I SEMENOVODSTVO in Russian No 2, Mar-Apr ~S1 pp 2-3
[Article by G.I. Larionov, lst Deputy Chief of the All-Union Production Association
~ for High Quality Seed Production: "Improving the Level of Planning in See3
Produc tion"]
[Text] During the past years, substantisl changes have taken place in the
_ development of the productive forces of agriculture-- The logistical base has been
- strengthened considerably and the power-wc~rker ratio has increased sharply.
Specialization and concentration based upon interenCerprise cooperation attd agro-
= industrial i:~tegration are undergoing further development. All of these factora
require improvements in planning at a1Z levels of control over agricultural
~ praduction. '
The decree of the C~ CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers entitled "Impravements
, in the Planning and Economic Stimulation of Yroduction and the Procurements of
Agricultural Products (1980) calls for a br~ad system of ineasures aimed at improving ~
the economic mechanism in agriculture, further increasing the production and ~ ~
~ procureinents of agricultural products and strengthening the kolkhoz and sovkhoz
economies. A basically new system for planning and stimulation is set forth in the
decree. .
A most important trend with regard to raising the level of planning work, as
emphasized in this document, is that of raising the efficiency of social production
- based upon accelerated scienCific-technical progress and an intensification of the
role played by the intensive factors of dP�.�elopment. The five-year and annual
plans for agricultural developme~it must ensure a balance between the production
volumes and state procurements of products on the one hand and the available and
allocated logistical and financial resources, fixed productiv~ capital and capital
investment volumes on Ch~ other.
The plans call for achieving a correct combination of centralized agricultural
management with further development of the economic independence of enterprises.
Excessive trivial guardianship over the f~rms by their leaders and s~:ecialists is
- being eliminated. At the same time, an increase will take place in the
- responsibility of leaders, specialiats, kolkhoz members and workers for increasing
output production and also in the interest they display in the final results of
~ their labor.
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In dev~loging the plans for economic and social development, provision was made for
establishing uniform state plans for the procurement of agricultural products for
the five-year period (with a breakdown b~ years). In the process, special
attention was given to improving the utilization of land, productive capital and
- material and labor resources and also to giving greater consideration to the
production specialization of farros and to the natural and economic factors.
- Today the higher organs are providing the farms with a strictly limited number of
indicators: for kolkhozes only the procurement valumes for agricultural
producCs, the quantities of equipment, mineral fertilizers and other important
logistical r.esources delivered, the tasks for introducing scientific-technical
improvements into operations; for sovkhozes and other state agricultural
enterprises and associations, in addition wage fund (normative), prafit plan, .
the placing in operation of fixed capital, capital investment limits, construction-
installation and contractual work.
The :olun~e of output production, the size and structure of the areas under crops,
nun~ber of animals, cropping power of the crops and animal productivity, the
.~roduction technology and organization and other indicators of development must be
- prepared directly on the farms.
Such an approach to this important work is providing a broad expanse for human
initiative and creativity and it is opening up vast opportunities for uncovering
_ new reserves and for improving operational efficiency and quality.
In the interesC of further motivating the kolkhozes and sovkhozes towards increasing
the pro~?uction and Frocurements of farming and animal husbandry products, the
decree calls for a l~onus amounting to SO percent of the procurement prices to be
- p~id aut during the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, for the sale of products to the state,
' over and above the average level achieved during the Tenth Five-Year Plan.
Thi.s level will reiuain const~nt for detezmining the quantity of products for which
- the bonus, added on to the prices, should be paid out during each year of the five-
year plan.
The decree calls for a number of ineasuzes to be carried out which will make it
possibJ.e to link wages more closely with the ffnal results of work and to interest
agricultural workers, to a greater degree, in increasing output production and
improving its quality. Better incentives will be issued for the work performed by
cr~p husbandry and animal huabandry workers and leading workers and specialists who
achieved high indicators. In the process, such motivation will be aimed at raising
labor productivity, lowering production costs, increasing ouCput production compared
to previuus years, increasing the production of high quality feed, raising the
cropping power of the crops and the productivities af the animals, improving the
quality of the products and other operational indicators.
Taking into account the exceptional importance attached to seed ~roduction for
raising production efficiency and in the interest of implemcnting a uniform
technological policy in this branch, the USSR Ministry of ~griculture has been
enjoined to develop and approve, for specialiae~ farms of union subordination, plans
for the production and distribution of high quality ~ee3. The councils of ministers
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of union and autonomous rep ublics, kray executive committees, oblast executive
- committees and rayon executive committees, when establishing the plana for the
= state procurements of agricultural products for seed production farms of union
au~ordination, are obligated to proceed on the basis of the need for ensuring the
- priority fulfillment by these farcns of the plans approved for them for the
production of high quality seed.
In conformity with the decree of the CC CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers
entitled "Measures for Further Improving Plant Breeding and Seed ProducCion for -
Grain, Oil-Bearing Crops and Grasses" (1976), the councils of ministers of union
= republics which do not have ablast subdivisions, the councilr~ of ministers of
autonomous republics, kray executive committees and oblast executi~re committees
- establish the sales plans for specialized seed production farms for the sale of high
- quality seed for grain and oil-bearing crops and grasses, in volumes which will
satisfy the requirements of kolkhozes, sovkhozes and other state agricultural
= enterprises not engaged in the production of seed and also plans for the seed
production farms for the procurement of high quality seed for the state resources.
The observance of planning discipline, in conformity with the seed production
system adopted throughout the country, and ensuring that the kolkhozes, sovkhozes
~'and other state enterprises are supplied with seed, will undoubtedly promote
- consic~erabl_~ �m?rovements in the efficiency of agricultural production.
.
..e decree opens up broad opportunities for raising the level of seed production
work and for ensuring that the annual production fully meets the requirements for
high Quality seed and in the required assortment.
. However, it bears mentioning that many experimental-production farms of scientific-
research institutes, the training farms of WZ's and technical schools and !
specialized seed production farms are still not being provided with sowing plans and
they are receiving tasks for the production and sale of various types of
agricultural products, with no thought being given Co their principal specialty
~ the production of high quality seed and hybrid seed. There have also been
incidents of considerable quantities of seed grown at apecialized seed farms ~
_ seed of high reproductions, deficit seed and aeed of promising varieties have
been used for forage or are being sold as ordinary grain. Fc~r example, in 1980 the
specialized seed production farms in the Armenian SSR should have sold 19,000 tons
of seed for grain crops but actually sold only 2,700 tons, or 14 percent of the
~ plan, despite the fact that the production plan for such seed was fulfilled by
122 percent. Similar facts have been recorded in the Uzbek SSR and in a number of
= oblasts in the Russian Federation. The Asureti, LambalQyskiy and Dzhordeashvili
Specialized Seed Farms and Sortsemprom [All-Union Production Associatiori for High
Quality Seed Production] far the Georgian SSR planned to expand their production of _
- seed, during 1981, for corn, oats and other~spring crops. However, the rayon -
organizations, failing to consider the production plans for seed for the mentioned -
- crops, provided them with raised tasks for the sowing of winter wheat greater by
a factor of 2-2.5 than the amount of winter wheat called for in the sowing plan
structure.
The kol'~hozes and sovkhozes are presently being provided with planning indicators
for 19~1 and for the Eleventh Five-Year Plan on the whole which, in conformity with ~
the decree, muat take into account th2 specialization of the farms. However, it is _
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unfortunate that thiu ia still not being carried out in all ar~eas. For example, the
collective at the 'Larechnyy Specialized S~ed Farm in Stavropol'skiy Kray, for the
~ Eleventh Five-Year Plan, developed a seed production program for grain, pulse and .
oii-bearing crope and also alfalfa and, taking this program into account, planned
_ the capital investments �or the 1981-1985 period and for the period up to 1990.
Nevertheless, despite the above, the Agricultural Administration of the
Georgiyevskiy Rayon Executive Co~ittee provided it with a sowir~g structure which
does not take into account the production of seed.
The country has entered the 1950's, a period which will be marked by new qualitative
changes in agriculturef by a str~ngthening of its contacts with other branches of
the economy and by further development of the agro-industrial comp lex for ensuring
- that the country is reliably supplied with food products and raw materials. -
In connection with solving the great and complicated tasks confronting the
agricultural workers, a very important role must be played by the agronomiets.
l~.z a welcoming speech addressed to thoae participating in an agricultural conference
_ ~eld in Moscow in late December of last year, L.I. Brezhnev stated: "The
_ obligations of agronomists, engineers, technicians and the entire army of machine
operators include efficient utilization of the increasing economic potential,
improving the organization of labor and production, actively introducing
scienCifically sound farming systems and industrial teChnologies and obtaining a
maximum return in the form of yields from all investments of labor and reaources. _
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TILLING AND CROPPING TECHNOLOGY ~ _
UDC 635.15:631
IMPORTANCE OF INCREASED PRODUCTIOY OF CORN GRAIN STRESSED ~
Moscow KUKURUZA in Russian No 2, Mar-Apr 81 pp 1-4 ,
[Article by A~I. Zholobov, chief of the Main Administration of Grain Crops and
General Problems of Agriculture of the USSR Ministry of Agriculture: "Prospects For
- the Production of Corn Grain During the Eleventh Five-Year Plan"] .
_ [Textj The country has embarked upon the Eleventh Five-Year Plan.. The agricultural
workers, similar to all So~.;iet peopTe, have commenced the work of carrying out the
decisions handed down during the 26th party congress.
The Communist Party and Soviet Government are devoting daily attention to -
. agriculCure. The implementation of the historic decisi.ons handed down during the
25th party congress has been manifested in the annually increasing appropriations
for the further development of agriculture: the flow of equipment into the rural
areas is increasing, greater quantities of mineral fertilizers and toxic chemicals -
are becoming available, newly reclaimed lands are being placed in operation and~
_ canstruction is being carried out in an~active manner.
The implementation of a long-term program for the development of agricultural
production is proceeding on the basis of a general path developed by the party a _
path for further specialization and concentration based upbn agro-industrial
_ integration. _
In agriculture, iroportance is attached�to increasing the production of all types of
products. But the principal task has been and continu~s tc~ be that of increasing ~
the gross harvest of grain. This is why the party has assigned the task of
producing 1 ton of grain per capita throughout the country prior to the end of the
Ele~~enth Five-Year Plan.
In solving the grain problem in the USSR, a great role must be played by corn. It
surpasses.all other grain foragc crops in terms of its cropping power and feed
qualities. Its grain is an irraplaceable component of the mixed feed industry and -
a valuable raw material ror the food, medical and a r~umber of other branches af
industry.
_ The cropping power of corn is steadily increasing. On the average for the cour:try,
it amounted to: during the Seventh Five-Year Plan 22.8 quintals per hectare, _
the Eighth Five-.Year Plan 27, the Ninth Five-Year Plan 28.2 and during the -
Tenth Five-Year Plan,-- 32.4 qt~intals per hectare. _
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During the 1978-1980 period, the production of corn grain in the Uzbek, Kazakh,
Kirghiz, Tajik 3nd Turkmen SSR's increased considerably compared to previous five-
year platils .
- However, by no means is full use being made of the yield potential of this crop.
The gross yield of its grain, for the country on the whole, remains at practically
the same level. This is explained first of all %,y an unjustified reduction in the
sowing areas, by insufficient use of irrigated land, by a low proportion of early-
.ripening hybrids in the planti.ngs and by a low level of concentraCion of corn
plantings in zones considered most favarable for them. ~
_ The logistical base for the production of corn grain at many kolkhozes and sovkhozes
- continues to remain weak: there is a shortage of improved equipment and highly .
effective herbicides and insufficient quantiCies of organic and r~~ineral fertilizers
= are being applied to the soil. At the same time, Che resources being allocated are
quite often bein$ used in an inefficient manner. Serious shortcomings exist in
conn~ction with plant breeding and seed production in behalf of this crop.
- .ecent decrees.concerned with improvements in plant breeding and seed production
~tor corn and also with accelerating the introduction of an industrial technology
- for its cultivation have called for the creation of a reliable foundaCion for
_ achieving radical improvements in the production of grain.
The USSR Ministry of Agriculture and the All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences
imeni V.I. Lenin have developed a complex program for raising the cropping power and
- increasing the gross yields of corn grafn during the next few years, based upon
improved use of the resources being allocated, an expansion of the sowing areas,
especially on irrigated lands, the application of complete dosages of fertrlizers,
the conversion over to an industrial cultivation ~echnology, i~nprovements in seed
production and the introduction of highly praductive hybrids, including early-
' ripening ones. '
Corn Sowing Areas and Their Disposition
- Taking into account the agroclimatic conditions found in the various zunes of the
coutitry and the biological characteristics of the new corn hybrids and varieties,
the possibility exists of expanding the corn plantings for grain to 5.1 million
_ hectarss (see Table 1) and mainly on irrigated lands, where it surpasses the ,
cropping power of other grain crops to a considerable degree.
~ During the 1975-1979 period, the average corn grain yield for the country as a whole
surpassed barley in terms of cropping power by 25.4 quintals per hectare, oats
- by 29 quintals per hectaze and winter wheat by I7.2 quintals per hectare.
At the same time, the extent to which corn grain is being grown on irrigated land
is still negligible. Of the overall plantings of agricultural crops on 12.9
- million hectares of irrigated land, corn for grain is bein~ cultivated on on~y
525,000 hectares, or 4 percent of the area. At the sa~r~e time, c~mputations reveal
_ that a real opportunity exists for planting corn on 1.2 million hectares of this
land, that is, 3'L percent of the grain crop ar~s. .
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The data of scientific-research institutes and foreign experience testify to the
fact that corn can be grown on irrigated land when there is a maximum saturation of -
the crop rotation plans and also on permanent tracts.
The grain crop plantings in zones of adequate and stable moisture must be expanded _
- simultaneously. In Moldavia they will be increased from 365,000 to 458,000 hectares
(SO percent of the grain fields) and in the Ukrainian SSR the area devoted to corn
f~r grain can be expanded from 1.5 to 2.8 million hectares, including in the
forest-steppe region from 0.4 to 0.62 million hectares.
Overall, in the zones considc:red m~st favorable for the cultivation of corn in
Moldavia, in the western and forest-steppe oblasts of th~ Ukraine and in the north
~ Caucasus, including irrigated land, the area devoted to corn will increase from 2.1 -
to 3.7 million hectares. Seventy one percent of the corn will be grown in these , _
zones and the proportion of corn grown for~grain purposes will be raised here. We
believe it to be wrong when, in zones where corn ripens fox grain, large areas are
occupied by silage plantings. ~or example, in the north Caucasus the silage ,
plantings exceed the plantings for grain by a factor of 2.3 and in the steppe and =
- forest-steppe regions of the Ukraine by a factor of 2.1. At the same time, ~he
_ experienr_e of foreign countries testifies to the contrary, that is, in those areas -
where corn ripens for grain the plantings of corn for silage are reduced
` considerably. In the U.S.A. they amount to 15 percent and in Hungary 18 percent
of the area ~sown in corn for grain. ~
- According to experimental data supplied by the Scientific Research Institute of
- Animal Husbandry For the Forest-Steppe and Forest DistricC of the Ukraini~n SSR, the
yield in feed units is as follows when harvested: during the grain formation
phase 31 quintals per hectare, during the phase of milky ripeness 55 quintals,
- during the phase of milky-waxy ripeness 81 quintals and during waxy ripeness
96 quintals per hectare. This is why the proportion o� c:orn for grain plantings,
with regard to the ouerall grain plgntings, should be increased in thase zone~
considered favorable for the growing of corn for grain. However, it still remains
low: in Krasnodarskiy Kray, for example 13.6, in the Kabardino-Balkarskaya
ASSR 37, in the Severo-Osetinskaya ASSR 40 and in the Ukrainian Steppe 13 ~
percent.
The level of concentration of corn for grain plantings is not very high. Throughout "
the country as a whole, the production of such grain is presently being carried out
by 11,534 farms, of which number 46 percent have areas le~s than 100 hectares in
size, 19 percent 101-200 hectares, 10 percent 201-300 hectares, 7 percent
301-400 hectares and 18 percent in excess of 400 hectares. Hence, increased
concentration in the production of this grain in rayons and on farms having the
best conditions is considered to be a priority measure for increasing the production _
of grain. This is clearly borne out by the experience of the Kolkhoz 40 Let
fJktyabrya in Panfilovskiy Rayon, Taldy-1Curganskaya Oblast. Here, of 14,000
- hectares of arable land, 9,000 hectares are used for corn grain and each year this
crop produces stable and high yields. In 1980, 70.3 quintals of grain were obtained
from each of 8,955 irrigated hectares, with more than 90 quintals per hectare being
. obtained from commodity plantings. The kolkhoz sold 62,000 tons of grain to tlie _
- state, of whi~h amount 24,300 tons consisted of hybrid and lst class seed.
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- TABLE 1
Sowing Area For Corn For Grain (thousands of hectares)
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Average for 1976-1980 1981 1985 -
~ (in advance)
Republic Including Including Including
. Total �n Total �n Total on
Irrigated Irrigated Irrigated
Lands La.nds Lands
USSR 2979 525 422~ 763.5 5113 1208
RSFSR 644 100 1000 133.0 1100 185
Ukrainian SSR 1509 95 2257 200.0 2750 350
Uzbek SSR 151 140 214.3 200.1 285 271
Kazakh SSR 98 9S 110 105.8 200 195
Georgian SSR 130 ].3 130 13.5 165 50
Azer'aijan SSR 10.2 7 12 6.9 23 9
r~-idavian SSR 362.0 14 411 30.0 458 30
- 1, ~ rghiz SSR 39 . 0 29 43. 2 32 .8 70 60
Tajik SSR _ g.2 7 14.0 12.0 22 19
Armenian SSR 0.3 0.1 0.3 0.2 0.5 -
Turkmen SSR 26.0 25.0 30.0 29.1 40.0 39 -
Moreover, as the production of early ripening and cold 'resistant hybrids are
introduced intQ operations and improvements are realized in Che zona~ technology for
the cuTtivation of corn grain, its plantings must be extended into the more northern -
regio~s, where aC the present time this crop is still ripening in an unstable
manner. It~is here that the corn will have a better guarantee of moisture~being -
available. ~ .
At the same time, we can no longer tolerate a situation wherein corn that was sown for
_ grain purposes is harvested, under various pretexts, for silage. Such plantings
- must be harvested only as originally intended. During the years of the Tenth Five-
Year Plan, 1.25 million hectares of corn grain (30 percent of the area sown) were
harvested for feed purposes throughout the country.
Improvements in Plant Breeding and Seed Production _
An important reserve for further increasing the production of corn grain is that of -
expanding Che group of hybrids, especially the early ripening and cold resistant _
- types, considered to be suitable for the industrial culfiivation technology. In _
1979, the early ripening and mid-season ripening hybrids occupied only 21 percent of
the sowing area used for corn grain. ,
The measures employed in recent years for strengthening the logistical base of the -
plant breeding centers have made it possible to raise the effic~ency of their
operations. During 4 years of`the Tenth Five-Year Plan, 125 hybrids were turned
over to the State Committee for the Strain Testing of Agricultural C rops. In terms
of productivity, many of these hybrids are the equal of the best foreign bred
hybrids and'in the principal zones of corn growing the~ are furnishing grain yields
_ of 60-70 quinCals per hectare and~under irrigation more than 1~~ quintals per
hectare. -
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Eighty five hybrids were regionalized during 1980, of which number 9 were early .
ripening', 23 medium early, 13 mid-season ripening and 40 medium late and .
late ripening.
- The inclusion of five foreign specimens in the gene fund exerted a positive ~ffAcC
with regard to imprcving the plant breeding results. They have already been
- employed in the creation of the very promising Kollektivnyy 244, Kollektivnyy 245
and other medium early hybrids. The Pioner 3975 and especially the Pioner 3978
hybrids have displayed fine technological qualities (high cropping power, resistance
- against lodging and diseases, rap~d drying out of the grain while standing and a
raised grain yield, uniformity of ripening and so forth). Their conversion over to
- a sterile basis and accelerated propagation have been organized. These hybrids are
to be distributed extensively in Moldavia, the steppe region of the Ukraine and in
the north Caucasus.
As yet, no solution has been found for the problem of creating hybrids for the ~
TsChO ~Central Black Earth Region], the forest-steppe region of the Ukraine and
= the Volga region, which will ripen in a reliable manner and be suitable for Che
industrial cultivation technology and for harvesting with thrashing of the ears.
- The All-Union Academy of Agricultural Sciences imeni V.I. Lenin and other scientific-
research institutes, in the interest of expanding the zone for the cultivation of
= corn grain and obtaining stable yields for this c,rop, are concentrating their~efforts
on the creation and rapid introduction into production operations of highly
productive, early ripening and cold resistant' hybrids, possessing valuable economic
qualities.
In confo nnity with the decree of the CC CPSU and the USSR Council of Ministers,
during the next few years the logistical base for the breeding of corn at 11
scientific research institutes throughout the country will be strengthened. This . '
will make it possible during the Eleventh Five'-Year Plan to convert over to an
optimum ratio of h~brid groups in the plantings, according to early ripening
capability: ~
...in the TsChO, early ripening 70-SO percent, medium early 20-30 percent; ~
...in the forest steppe xegion of the Ukrainian SSR, early ripening 30-40 percent, :
medium early 50-60 percent; in the soutnern regions alone, mid-season ripening
10 percent;
...in the forest district of the Ukrainian SSR, early ripening 100 percent;
� .,..in the steppe region of the Ukrainian SSR, medium earl.y 20-25 percent, mid-
seasoning ripening 60 percen[, medium late 15-20 percent;
_ ...in the Moldavian SSR, in the northern zone, early ripening 20-30 percent,
medium early 35-40 percent, mid-season ripening 35-40 percent; in the central
and southern zones, medium early 20-30 percent, mid-season ripening SO-60
percent, medium late 20-30 percent;
- ...in the Volga region, in Saratovskaya Oblast, early ripening 100 percent; in
Volgogradskaya Oblast, medium early 50 percent, mi~d-season ripening SO percent. -
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...in the north Cancasus, medium early 5 percent, mid-season ripening 45
percent, medium late 40 percent, late ripening 10 percent. �
_ The creation and introduction into production operations of early ripening and
medium ear ly hybrids will make i.t passibl~ not only to expand the corn grain area,
but in addition it will bring about a change in the ratio of hybrid areas, for the
various groups of early ripening capability, in the traditional corn growing zones.
In order to implement thi.s program, a great amount of work must be carried out in �
connection with improvi?ig seed production operations in behalf of corn. The seed
of lst generation hybrids did not occupy a prominent place in the procurements for
the 1976-1979 period.
The overa~l seed requirement for early ripening corn hybrids and varieties, for all
- types of plan*_ings throughout the country, is 300,U00 tons. In recen~ years the
plan for p rocuring this seed for the state resources has not beQn fulfilled.
- principal causes of the existing situation weak logistical base for
- ~..ocessing the corn seed within the USSR Ministry of Procurement system and at the
scientific research institutes, shortcomings in plant breeding work and especially
in connec tion wiCh the creation of highly productive early ripening hybrids and
weak maCerial interest on the part of the specialized seed farms.
At the present time, the capability of the drying economy of the plants for
processing the corn seed is approximately 60 percent of the requirement. As a
result, :he drying of the seed lasts for 50-70 days and this leads to a loss in
germinativ e capacity. A majority of the scientific research institutes lack plants
for processing the parental forms of corn hybrids; the seed is procured by grein
receiving enterprises, where it fails to receive proper attention.
The obsolete equipment found at corn grading plants is adversely affecting the
prodtiction of high quality seed. Experience reveals that the most effective
installat ions for the production of high quality seed are the scientific-production
_ and production associations for breeding and seed production in behalf of corn,
which wer e crea ted in 1978: "Kuban'gibrid" in the RSFSR, Panfilovskoye in
~ the Kazak h SSR, Samarkand in the Uzbek SSR, Mezt~lchozyaystvennoye in the .
- Turkmen SSR. In particular, the Gibrid NPO [scientific-production association] is
performin g in a very successful manner in the Moldavian SSR.
The plans for the new five-year plan call for the creation of 22 additional
scientif ic-production associations for corn seed production, incl.uding 4-- in the
RSFSR, 16 in the Ukrainian SSR, 1-- in the Kazakti SSR and 1-- in the Azerbai~an
- SSR.
Priority attentiotl must be given to strengthening the logistical base at the
specialized seed farms, at experimental-production farn~s of scientific-research
institut es, at training-experimental farms of agricultural VUZ's and technical
schools and aC the scientific-research institutes. QverAll, dur;.ng the Eleventh
~ Five-Yea r Plan, 70 plants will be built for procesaing the seed of parental forms,
with a productivity of 250 tons (20 plan:.s), 5C~ tons (45 plants.) and 1,000 tons
(5 plants) and 25 plants for the processing of hybrid and high quality seed, with a,
capabili ty of 5,000 tons (16 plants) and 10,000 tons (9 plants).
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- At the same time, an extensive pr~gram will be implemented for the construction and
modernization of plants for the processing of corn seed, chamber dryers with
~hrashing-cleaning towers and grading shops within the USSR Ministry of Procurement
- system.
In accordance with the long range plan approved by the USSR Ministry of Agriculture,
_ 1.29 million tons of seed corn will be procured annually, including 391,000 tons of
ea~ ly ripening and 26,400 tcns of parental forms.
~ Industrial Technology
A The principal direction to be followed for increasing the production of corn grain
is that af employing the industrial technology for cultivating this crop. The
technology calls for the carrying out of a minimum number of soil cultivation
operations and the use, as part of an overall camplex, of a$roup of highly
productive hybrids having different ripening periods, mineral fertilizers in raised
dosages, highly effective an3 rapid-deteriorating herbicides and also nighly
productive equipment, all of which will serve to ensure the carrying out of all work ~
in strict conformity with the requirements of the technology, in keeping with the
established schedules and in a hi~,h quality.manner.
The rnentioned technology has been under~oing testing throughout the country since
1977 and it has displayed a high level, of effectiveness. During the 1977-1979 .
period, Interenterprise Detachment No. 11 ire Chad~r-Lungskiy Rayon in the Moldavian
SSR (the chief of the detachment is Hero of Socialist Labor and Deputy to the USSR
Supreme Soviet S.M. Parmakli) obtained an everage of 66.6 quintals of corn grain
from non-irrigated land, with labor expenditures of 0.44 man-hours per quintal and
a production cost of 5.09 rubles per quintal.
In 1978, the new technology was employed in Chadyr-Lungskiy Rayon on 20,000 hectares
and a yield of 61.5 quintals of grain per hectare was obtained. In 1979, the scale
for the introduction of the industrial technology increased throughout the country
- to 160,000 hectares. An average of 51.5 quintals per hectare was obtained, or 23.8
quintals per hectare higher than when the usual technology,was employed. In 1980,
the new technology was employed on 1.16 million hectares. Experience has underscored
, its definite advantages over the system employed previously, despite the fact that.
some farms were unable to employ it without violating the technological discipline.
- For example, it is known that when the industrial technology is used mineral
fertilizers are most effective when applied in the autumn with plowing. However,
quite often the farms apply them in the spring, thus lowering the effectiveness of
the technology on the whole. The leaders and specialists of some farms lost their
- nerve and they issued instructions to carry out inter-row cultivations aad, as a .
result, the money they had paid out was borne away by the wind. _
The units used for applying herbicides on some farms are not equipped with markers
and thus mistakes occur out on the fields, with some sectors receiving two ~
applications .
The operational experience of the better farms has shown that a herbicide should
ideally be applied at night, when as a rule there is no wind. In addition, when
applying a herbicide during the day the hoses should be covered by a polyethylene
film.so as to prevent the wind from carrying off the herbicide.
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Multiple-purpose units far the application and placement of herbicides have not
been created in all areas and this has resulted in excessive expenditures for labor
- and resources and in an increase in the number of passes which the units must make
out on a field. �
It is known that eradikan does not act upon sowthistle and sunflowers. If the
possibility does not exist of selecting a field where these contaminants are absent, ~
then the weed seedlings should be treated with Group 2.4-D herbicides in Che
- autumn, following the removal of stubble and prior to plowing. ~
During the years of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan, the industr�ial technology will be
introduced into operations in all of the corn growing republics (see Table 2).
TABLE 2
Introduction of the Industrial Technology for Cultivating Corn for Grain
During the 1981-1985 Period (thousands of hectares)
Republic 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985
USSR 2900 3005 3210 3440 3778
RSFSR 900 900 900 900 1000
Ukrainian SSR 1300 1400 1600 1800 2000 .
Uzbek SSR 'L00 200 200 200 258
Kazakh SSR ~u SO 50 50 50
Georgian SSR 50 SO 50 50 50 ~
Azerbaijan SSR 5 10 10 15 15
Moldavian SSR 350 350 350 350 350
Kirghiz SSR 15 15 20 25~ 25
Taji~C SSR 12 12 12 12 12
Turkmenskaya SSR 18 18 18 18 18
In the interest of ensuring the most effective use of the logistical resources
allocated, technological discipline must be strictly observed throughout all stages
in the introduction of the new technology.
When carrying out cultivation based upon the industrial technology, the corn will be
grown following the best predecessor crops: winter and spring grain crops, pulse
. crops, corn, potatoes, sugar beets and so forth.
On fields contamiriated by root sucking weeds (sowthistle, bindweed, stagger bush and
others), stubble removal work should be carried out twice.prior to plowing and the
' weed seedlings should be treated with Group 2.4-D herbicides.
The stubble removal work will be carried out using highly productive disk implements
- BDT-7, BD-10, LDG-10, ldg-15. Plows having half-turn mouldboards will be made
dvailable for improving the quality of the plowing work.
The plans call for mineral fertilizers to be applied tc each hec.:are of non-irrigated
- planting at the rate of 330 kilograms of active agent per rectare and 440 kilograms
- on irrigated tracts and in an optimum ratio.
- Measures will be undertaken to raise the effectiveness of the fertilizers by autumn
plowing under using a full dosage of organic fertilizer, by increasing the use of
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mineral fertilizers during autumn plowing operations and by ensuring their uniform
distribution over a field a~d the extensive use of the local and starting methods of
application. -
The supplying of the farms with special scrapers will enable them to level o~f their
soil thoroughly, thus raising +the effectiveness of the herbicides and the quality of
the sowing work.
The availability of a large group of highly effective herbicides (Eradikan 6E,
_ Lasso, Agelon, Ramrod, Simasine, Atrasine, Zeapos, Dialen, Group 2.4-D and ottiers),
differentiated according to their use and depending upon the weediness and soil -
charact~ristics of each field, will ensure a clean status for the plantings _
- throughout the growing season, with no expenditures for manual labor or mechanized
- tending of the crops.
When employing this technology, importance is atCached to the quality of preparation
of the herbicide solutions, to their uniform application, to their proper placement
~ in the soil and to strict observance of the entire technology for employing chemical
processes in the campaign against weeds. This will ensure the planned delivery of a
complex of appropriate machines: APZh-12, VR-3M units for the preparation of
- soluticns; POU and OVT-1 sprayers with a field hose equipped with cut-off valves and
BDT-7 and BDT-10 harrows for the placement of soil herbicides.
The conversion over to improved implements for pre-sowing tilling af the soil
BP-8 spring-tooth harrows with leveling boards and rotary rollers, Slavutich multiple-
purpose units, USMK-5.4A cultivators and specially re-equipped KPS-4's, SUPN-8 -
precision sowing machines and Bekker's is making it possible to maintain an
_ optimum sowing density, that is, to distribute the seed uniformly in a row and to
plant them strictly at the prescribed depth.
. This technology makes it possible to carry out the sowing at a lesser depth (5-7
centimeters) and this serves to ensure that earlier and more healthy seedlings will -
be obtained and that the cropping power will be raised. ~
The creation of designs and organization of the production of 12-row preci'sion
sowing machines of the Kinze and John Deere types will raise productivity _
substantially, during the carrying out of a complex of spring field operations, as
well as the effectiveness of the technology on the whole.
On corn plantings cultivated using the conventional technology, considerable use will
be made of wide-cut units 2-3 SPCh-6M sowing machines and the corresponding _
_ machines for inter-row cultivation. In order to reduce manual labor expenditures,
use will be made of the soil herbicides Simasine and Atrasine, for which purpose -
fields will be selected upon which corn will be grown for several years in a row, in
crop rotation plans with brief rotation.
Protection of Corn Against Pests and Diseases
- In order to raise the cropping power of corn, the campaign against pests and diseases
must be intensified and the recommendations handed down by science must be carried
out in a very accurate manner. _
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In combating pests and diseases, the seed must necessarily be treated w~th multiple-
purpose disinfectants (Phentiuram, Geptatiuram or Tigam) and Hexachlorr~ne dust
- should be applied to the soil during sowing, or 5 percent Bazudin in th~ southern
- European portion of the USSR. �
For proCecting corn plantings against dama$e caused by the southern grcy weevil, the
_ fruitfly and young caterpillars of the winter and other chewing moths, extensive use
must be made of the method of spraying the plantings with a 16 percent mineral oil ~
_ emulsion of the gamma isomer of Hexachlorane.
Improvements in the Technology for the Harvesting, Post-Harvest Proces:sing and
Storage of the Grain
In the production of grain, one very complicated and laborious operatic~n is that of
harvesting the crop. As a rule, it continues for more than a month's Cime and this
of itself can cause considerable losses. According to data supplied by the All-Union
Scientific Research Institute of Corn, the grain losses caused by overripeness, for
a~~^pping power of 40 quintals per hectare, amounts on the lOth day t~ 0.4.percent,
- on the 15th day 3.8 percent, on the 20th 8.9 percent and on the 35th day
- 22.Ei percent. The losses increase as the cropping power increases. .
The harvesting of corn in ears with subsequent cleaning and thrashing of the ears
at a station results in a considerable increase in expenditures (as much as twofold
- at times). Thus the plans call for more thrashing of ears in the fie1~1 following a
corn harvest.
The considerable increase in the gross yield of corn grain planned for 1985 raises a
critical problern with regard to the development of and improvements in the
- technological systems for harvesting the crop, especially the post-har~iest
processing of it, since for all practical purposes the farms still lack, the
- serially produced equipment required for this purpose. .
The plans call for the corn to be harvested in ears (with a grain moisrure content of
no more than 40 percent) using the KOP-1.4B and KSKU-6 corn harvesting combines.
Forced ventilation sites having various types of heat generators must },e used for
drying the ears.
Experience has shown that in order to reduce losses and raise the prod~lctivity of
the combines and harvest the corn in ears with a grain moisture contenr_ of
approximately 30 percent, it is best to proceed without ear cleaners. Instead the
ears should be cleaned on a thrashing floor in flow lines which includo a KZS
[komplekt zernoochistitel'no-sushil'nyy; grain cleaning and drying unit], a trash
pit with vibrator feeder, ear conveyer, ear cleaner, thrasher and convpyer for the
_ thrashed grain heap.
The harvesting of corn with direct thrashing of the ears in the field (for a grain
moisture content of less than 30 percent) must be employed more exC~~nslvely, sii.��e ~
this method serves to raise labor productivity by twofold 'n the pc;t-~arvest y
- processing of a crop and it reduces~fuel expenditur~s considerably com~gsed to
preliminary drying of the ears. For harvesting i-. this manner, use wi11 be made of
the SK-S Niva combines with PPK-4 picker attact?ments and also tt�e KSKU-6 corn
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- harvesting combines and for drying the grain~-- use will be made of complexes of the
KZS type and shaft and drum dryers.
Once the planned deliveries of corn harvesting machines to agriculture have been
carried out, it will be possible to harvest the crop in just 23 working days.
- In view of the shortage of combines and other items of equipment used in the post-
harvest processing of the corn, a requirement exists for raising the productivity
_ ~f the equipment during the harvest operations in the interest of reducing the
overall harvest period to the maximum possible degree.
- The dried ears and grain are usually stored in storehouse facilities. In recent
years, greater use has been made both in our country and abroad of the method of
- storing corn grain, the moisture content af which is 28-30 percent, in silage towers
or trenches covered over with a film and without the addition of preservatives.
The grain is placed in storage crushed in 2-4 parts.
The storing of grain having such a moisture content will produce a savings in
connection with the drying work, it will accelerate the hacvest operations and it
~ will make it possible to obtain high quality concentrated feed.
In this regard, it will be necessary to develop designs and to organize the
production of highly productive machines for crushing the corn grain and ears prior
_ to storing them for preservation.
The USSR Ministry of Agriculture and VASKhNIL [All-Union Academy of Agricultural
Sciences imeni V.I. Lenin] are aware of the serious nature of the task concerned
with introducing the industrial technology for the cultivation of corn grain into
operations at large sites.
In late 1980 and early 1981, republic, oblast (kray) and rayon seminar conferences
were held in all of the corn growing republics for ~he purpose of examining the ~
results nf introduction of the new technology during 1980 and assigning tasks for
future years. During this period, 87,000 machine operators undertook a course of
instruction on the operational methods to be used in conjunction with the new
technology. This will make it possible to raise technological discipline
considerably and to improve the agricultural practices being employed.
However, in addition to an efficient program for sharply increasing the production
- of corn grain throughout the country, a number of unresolved problems still exist
- which are adversely affecting the realization of this program. First of a11, it
- will be necessary to raise the procurement prices for the corn grain so that its
production profitability will be no lower~than that for other grain crops.
In addition and in the interest of raising the material interest of the farms in
increasing the production of corn grain, the farms should ideally be authorized to
- supply kolkhoz members and sovkhoz workers with up to 20 percent of the gross yield
of grain, obtained over and above the average level for the preceeding five-year
plan, for the maintenance of livestock on their private plots.
- The USSR Ministry of Agriculture is of the opinion that fulfillment of the overall
program and positive solutions for the problems set forth in it will make it
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possible to obtain 15 million tons of corn grain dur~.ng 1981 and to create a
reliable prerec~uisite for achieving the planned production volume for corn grain
during this present five-year p~riod., _
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FORESTRY AND TIMBER
PRODUCTION INITIATIVE PROMOTED IN TIMBER INDUSTRY
- Moscow LESNAYA PROMYSHLENNOST' in Russian No 9, Sep 80 pp 1-2
[Article: "Wings for the Initiative"]
_ [TextJ The workers of the timber and woodworking industry received the decisions of
the June 1980 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee concerning the calling of the
26th CPSU Congress with great inspiration and patriotism. Labor collectives are
striving to mark the party congress with the fulfillment of this year's quotas
and the five-year plan as a whole ahead of schedule, to lay a firm foundation for
successful work during the new llth Five-Year Plan. Enterprises are widely searching
. for additional reserves of production effectiveness and labor quality, of the ,
efficient and economic use of labor, raw materials, fuel and energy and financial
resources. .
Workers of the timber industry in Krasnoyarskiy Kray have begun socialist competition
' under the banner, "Eor the 26th CPSU Congress--26 Shock :~abor Weeks!" The initiator
was the collec.tive of the Yeniseylesosplav production association. It has taken on
_ increased obligations--to complete the lOth Five-Year Plan ahead of time and to
contribute commodi~y products worth 5,500,000 rubles above the plan instead of the
p reviously pledged 3,440,000 rubles, to produce ~an additional 60,000 sleepers and
20,000 cubic meters of saw-timber. It has been decided to complete the plan for the
first 2 months of the llth Five-Year Plan ahead of tiaie and to produce 350,000
- rubles' worth of commodity products above the plan.
The timber procurers of Un-Yuganskiy Industrial Timber Farm (Tyumen'lesprom) decided
to fulfill the five-year plan for the procurement of wood ahead of schedule and to
deliver an additional 15,000 cubic meters of timber and to produce commodity products
~ worth 200,000 rubles. In striving to secure rhythmical work, they have pledged to
p rocure 100,000 cubic meters of timber using the special collective method, to
prepare 10 kilometers of land for forest roads, to curtail the idleness of cars by
1 hour (as compared to last year), to complete capital repairs of buildings worth
250,000 rubles and to build a cow facility for 200 head. It has been decided to -
_ f ulfill the 2-month plan for basic indicators by the opening day of the congress.
The construction workers of the Tyumen'lesstroy Trust, in examining their earlier
obligations, intend to fulfill the annual plan for construction-installation work
worth 19.6 million rubles and the plan for the introduction of timber roads one
month early. The annual introduction of capacities to move out wood in a volume of
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$00,000 cubic me+ters and of resi~ent~al facilities totalling 26,000 square meters.
It has been decided to curtail the volume of incomplete production by'S percent as
compared to that established by the plan. By the opening of the congress the
2-month plan of construction and installation work must be completed. -
The brigade of D. A. Yermolayev of the Vokhomskiy Timber Industry Enterprise of the
~Costromalesprom Association has presented a valuable initiative. By the opening of
the congress it has decided to procure 550,000 cubic meters of timber, having fLl-
filled eight annual plans since tl~e beginning of the lOth Five-Ye~r Plan. In
working by the method of the brigade subdivision, the collective pledged to preserve
no fewer than 70 percent of vital young plants in worked wood-cutting areas, to
economize on 7,500 rubles worth of material resources and to confirm the title of
_ "Brigade of Excellent Quality." The day of the opening of the congress will be
marked by the completion of the plan for the first quarter of 1981.
The timber proc~srement brigade of the Karabul'skiy Timber Industry Enterprise of -
Krasnoyarsklesprom [Krasnoyarsk Timber Industry Association], directed by L. .N. -
- Gne~-�~.shev, reexamined its obligations. With an annual plan of 117,000 cubic meters
~~Zd earlier obligations of 132,000 cubic meters, it decided to procure 148,000
~ibic meters of timber during the final year of the lOth Five-Year Plan.
_ In making a special effort before the congress, after evaluating its possibilities
and reserves the brigade of A. A. Vatrasov, recipient of the USSR State Prize,
- decided to procure no fewer than 1 million cubic meters of timber during the llth
- Five-Ye.ar Plan using three swathe-packing machines. The brigade is part of the
- Komsomol'slciy Timber Industry Enterprise of Tyumen'lesprom [T~ umen' Timber Industry
Association].
A good initiative was presented by the engineering-technical workers and specialists
_ of the timber procurement industry who participated in the All-Union Conference on
the question of raising the effectiveness of using new timber-procurement technology, -
which took place in July of this year in the Atubskiy Timber Industry Enterprise of
Irkutsklespren~ [Irkutsk Timber Industry Association]. The participants in the
meeting pledged to overfulfill established goals in 1980 in the area of wood-cutting
operations fulfulled by machines using the method of swathing, hauling and cutting
of knots. For these operations it is planned to increase the annual output per -
average machine by 1.5-2 times in 1980-1981 by making machines work 2-3 shifts, by
improving their use, by curtailing the losses of work time, by improving the system
of technical services and wages, by improving the professional training of machinists
and ~y extending progressive experience widely. In each association it has been
planned to have 1-2 timber industry enterprises make the transition to a total _
machine method of production in the area of wood-cutting with the highly effective
utilization of new technology, to organize specialized graup sections for the repair
_ and regulation of complex networks and units in new machinery, and to improve the
selection and training of workers and machinists.
The best rollers in the country--the participants in the all-union competition
"Wood Felling 1980"--turned to the workers of the timber procurement industry with
a call to begin shock labor in honor of the coming congress, to successfully
fulfill the plan and socialist obligations of the final year ~f thc lOth Five-
Year P1an, and to secure the fulfillment of the qunta for the first 2 months of 1981
by the day the congiess opens--23 February.
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Great pre-congress obligations were also taken on by the workers of th~ -
Nadvornyanskiy Timber Combine�of the Precarpathian Forest, the brigade of F. P.
Koval' of the Syktyvdinskiy Timber Industry Enterprise and many other labor
collectives and leading branch workers.
The board of the ministry of the timber industry and the presidium of the central
committee of the trade union council accepted the decisions of the June 1980 Plenum
of the CPSU Central Committee, approved the~patriotic initiative of leading workers,
engineering-technical employees and collectives in developing socialist competition
in honor of the 26th CPSU Congxess in the area of successfully completing the 1980
_ pl,an and the five-year plan in general. Ministries of union re~publics, all-union and
p-toduc~ion associa~tior.s, enterprises and organizations and all committee~ of trade ~
unions and professions have been assigned the following: ~
--to evaluate the goals arising from the decisiona of the~June Plenum of the CPSU
Central Cammittee; _
--to develop and realize measures to worthily greet the 26th CPSU Congress, to begin -
_ extensive educational work, to organize lectures and speeches, to have thematic
exhibits devoted to the leadership role of the USSR's Communist Party;
--to maximally utilize reserves for operational improvements, to increase the return
on fixed production capital, to efficiently and economically utilize labor, raw
materials, fuel-energy and financial resources; to give special attention to the
effectiveness of capital investments in capital construction, to decrease the number
- of new structures and incompleted structures and to focus strength and resources on
operational objects;
--to support and spread the patriotic initiative of leading workers and collectives
to worthily greet the 26th CPSU Congress, to successfully complete the lOth Five-Year
Plan, to create a dependable basis for solving the tasks of the llth Five-Year Plan;
_ --to create the conditions for a successful fulfillment of increased socialist
obligations by the branch's workers;
- --to organize socialist competition for the right to write labor reports for the
party congress, to begin a mass movement to increase labor productivity and to econo-
mize, to open personal accounts of labor gifts to the congress, to secure work on
the day of the opening of the party congress with the greatest labor productivity
and using raw materials and other materials that have been economized on;
--to take specific measures to eliminate the lags of collectives that do not fulfill
plan goals and to improve the work of enterprises having average indicators;
--to c~learly and convincingly reveal and propogandize the successes of production _
leaders.
The board of the ministry and the presidium of the central committee of the trade
union have expressed their assurance that the workers of the timber and wood process-
ing industry will follow the example of the initiators of competition and will honor -
the party congress with la~or results.
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