SOME DATA ON THE USSR MEAT INDUSTRY, AS OF FEBRUARY - MARCH 1951

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• Publication Date: August 8, 1951
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
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Economic - Meat industry
Daily newspapers
USSR '
15 Feb - 30 Mar 1951
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SOME DATA ON THE USSR MEAT INDUSTRY,
AS OF FEBRUARY - 1951 -MMO
This report presents information from February - March 1951
Soviet newspapers on meat and dairy industry plan fulfillment,
planned 1951 livestock productivity, livestock increases, cattle
breeds, and meat industry conditions for certain Soviet repub-
lics.
Numbers in parentheses refer to appended sources.
Uzbek SSR Meat and Dairy Industry Plan' Fulfillment, February 1951 (1)
Percent
Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry
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Latvian SSR Meat and Dairy Industry P1an:Fulfillment, February 1951 (2)
Percent
Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry
Meat
Sausage products
Animal fats
Enterprise::
Riga Neat-Packing Combine
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Belorussian SSR Livestock Plan Fulfillment for 1950 (3)
The Belorussian SSR fulfilled the 1950 livestock plan as follows: cattle,
102.8 percent. sheep and goats, 107.1 percent; horses, 118.7 percent; swine,
79.5-percent;. and ff#R1., 51.6 percent.
In the Belorussian SSR 1950 collectivized
ed.lives sheep totals d thesfollow-
ing percentage increases over 1949:
46.5, and swine 36.6.
Pledged 1951 Livestock Productivity, Azerbaydzhan SSR (4)
Iambs per Calves per Colts per
Rayon 100 Sheep 100 Cows 100 Mares
Shamkhorskiy 115 100 86
86
Sal' nskiy 105 1095 0 85
Sabirabadskiy
Pledged 1951 Livestock Productivity, Belorussian SSE (5)
Lambs per Calves per Colts 'per Suckling Pigs
Oblast 100 Shee 100 Cows 100-Mares ?er Brood Sow
Baranovichi X25.. 85 65 13
Bobruysk 125 90 60 13
Brest 120 95 65 12
Gomel' 140 90 75 12
Grodno 135 100
Minsk 120 90 70 13
Mogilev 65 12
Molodechno 150 190 70 12
Pinsk ]P0 85 6o 12
.Polesa
60 15
Polotsk 150 '95 70 12
60
Vitebsk 156
Livestock Increases
Moldavian SSR: By the end of 1951, there will be 7.5 times more cattle,.
5 times more sheep, and 4 times more swine in the republic than in 1941.(6)
Armenian SSR: A decree of the Council of Ministers USSR dated 30 May 1950
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requires that 6there . In e1 220,000 swine 500 and 2.5 308,000 chickensnonhthe
republic by 1955
.republic's kolkhozes.(7)
Ukrainian SSR: In 1950 there were 49 percent more cattle, 151 percent
L.;re swine, and 101 percent more sheep on the kolkhozes of the republic than
in 1948.(8)
Kazakh SSR: In 1950 not one rayon of Alma-Ata Oblast fulfilled all parts
of the livestock-raising plan.(9) During the postwar Five-Year Plan in Sary-
Suyskiy Rayon, Dzhambul Oblast, the number of sheep and goats increased 150
percent, the number of cattle 51.9 percent, and the number of horses 84.7 per-
cent.(10)
RSFSR: The number of cows and sheep in Vengerovskiy Rayon, Novosibirsk
Oblast,has doubled since 1947.(11)
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Breeds of Cattle
Red Steppe cattle are to be found in many parts of the RSFSR, Ukrainian
SSR, Belorussian SSR, and the Baltic republics. In North Kazakhstan, they
compose 80 percent of all cattle.(12)
The .Alatau breed of cattle is derived from crossing Kirgiz cows with
Shvitskiy and Kostroma bulls. Hybrids of the first generation have an average
live weight of 455 kilograms; hybrids of the second generation average 565
kilograms. The average live weight of Alatau cows on four Kirgiz SSR farms
is as follows: Almedin Sovkhoz, 590 kilograms; Sovkhoz imeni Il'ich 595 kilo-
grams; Sovkhoz imeni Frunze 507 kilograms; and Kolkhoz imeni Lenin 542 kilo-
grams.(13)
The Kazakh white-oheaded breed of cattle is derived from crossing a Here-
ford bull and a Kazakh cow. The Hereford strain has been adapted to Kazakh
conditions over an 18-year period. The live weights of Kazakh white-headed
cattle average as follows: 8-month calf, 220-240 kilograms; 18-month calf,
350-400; grown cow, 530-550; and bull, 800-900 kilograms. The slaughter weight
of mature cattle of this breed fed on natural pasture and weighing live 500-
600 kilograms is 59-62 percent of live weight. The bones average 13-15 percent
of the total weight of the carcass.
There are already 400,000 head of Kazakh white-headed cattle in the Kazakh
SSR. In the next 5 years, this -n fiber will increase to one million. This
breed is now to be found in 64 rayons of the rejublic.(14)
Status of Tadzhik SSR Meat Indust
Discussion at a meeting of Tadzhik SSR meat industry personnel brought
out the following complaints-.
Chief Engineer Zvonarev of the Stalinab L Meat-Packing Combine complained
of serious mismanagement in the combine. The supply system is faulty, cattle
are not delivered on time, and the work cannot be planned. The technical sec-
tion of the Ministry of Meat and Dairy Industry Tadzhik SSR is occupied with
administrative details, and does no work of a truly technical nature.
Other speakers asserted that not enough attention is paid to young spe-
cialists in the industry. A certain Leonov, a young specialist in the Leninabad
Meat combine,did not have working quarters for 3 years. He complained to the
authorities, and one Yuldashev, chief, Cadre Section, Ministry of Meat and Dairy
Industry Tadzhik SSR, disciplined him for improper conduct and discrediting the
authorities.
Ashurov, Minister of Meat and Dairy industry Tadzhik SSR, spoke on 1950 plan
fulfillment., Kulyab and Leninabad Oblast Meat and Dairy Trusts showed good pro-
duction indexes in 1950, as did the Stalinabad Meat-Packing Combine. The Germ
and Kulyab Oblast?Meat and Dairy Trusts were admonished for excessive expenditure
of state funds. Labor productivity rose 16 percent over 1949 throughout the
ministry. New Russian-made equipment has been delivered to many enterprises of
the ministry.(15)
1. Tashkent, Pravda Vostoka, 23 Mar 51
2. Riga, Sovetskaya Latviya, 20 Mar 51
3. Minsk, Kolkhhzaaaya"' Pravda, 15 Feb 51
4. Baku, Bakinskiy Rabochiy, 22 Mar 51
5. Minsk, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, 7 Mar 51
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Kishinev, Sovetskaya Moldaviya, 17 Mar 51
Yerevan, Kommuniat, 21 Mar 5151
Kiev, Pravda Ukrainy, 30
Alma-Ata, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda, 22 Mar 51
Ibid., 7 Mar 51
Moscow, Izvestiya, 6 Mar 51
Vil?nyus, Sovetskaya Litva, 30 Mar 651
Frunze, Sovetskaya Kirgiziya, 23
Alma-Ata, Kaza:hstanakaya Pravda, 23 Mar 51
Stalinabad, Kommunist Tadzhikistan, 6 Mar 51