CREATION OF VEGETABLE ZONES OUTSIDE RUMANIAN CITIES, WORKERS' CENTERS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700110368-0
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 15, 2011
• Sequence Number: 368
• Publication Date: May 27, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSI CATI&.SOTNYFID
INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
INFORMATION 1953
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspapers
WHERE
PUBLISHED Bucharest
D,'.TE
PUBLISHED 9 - 20 Jan 1953
LANGUAGE Rumanian
DATE DIST. Z 1 May 1953
NO. OF PAGES 3
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
CREATION OF VEGETABLE ZONES
OUTSIDE RUMANIAN CITIES, WORKERS' CENTERS
BUCHAREST REGIUNE PREPARING FOR SPRING PLANTING -- Bucharest, Vista Sindicala,
14 Jan 53
Plans have been drawn up to put into effect the decision issued by the
Presidium of the Grand National Assembly on 18 December 1952, for the creation
of vegetable zones at the outskirts of cities and workers' centers. Soil
analyses were made, and specialists on 9 January 1953 submitted reports on the
results to the plenary session of the Bucharest People's Council. Representa-
tives of raion committees of Bucharest Regiune, as well as leaders of col-
lectives and TOZ, specialists in vegetable growing, scientists, and represen-
tatives of the working masses attended the meeting.
Vegetable zones will be developed in 1953 and 1954 over an area of
22,300 hectares, of-which 19,700 Hectares will be irrigated and planted with
vegetables. Early potatoes will be planted over an area of 6,800 hectares,
without irrigation.- Production zones for vegetables, leguminous plants, and
early potatoes in Bucharest Regiune include farms and agricultural units of
ell types in Bucharest municipal raions, as well as in Vidra, Mihailesti,
Racari, Spagov, and Crevedia raions. Propaganda work will also be carried
on to convince peasants to join collectives and TOZ to specialize in vegetable
growing.
The vegetable production plan by hectares is established as follows.
state farms will cultivate 7,346 hectares; other farms set up by enterprises
and institutions will cultivate 1,237 hectares; the Bucharest Animal and
Vegetable Enterprise will cultivate 297 hectares; collectives, 608 hectares;
TOZ, 1,049 hectares; and individual small farmers, 9,138 hectares. New areas
will be irrigated in 1953 for this purpose. Detailed plans have been estab-
lished for installation and construction of irrigation systems.
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Bucharest Regiune Union of-Cooperatives, together with Aprozar (office of
Vegetable Supply), will purchase seeds for early potatoes and will have them
delivered in time for' planting. A permanent and systematic control will be
set up by the executive committee of the people's council to supervise labor
distribution and compliance with all rules of the plan.
Collectives in villages surrounding Bucharest City have started to put
into effect the decision for the creation of vegetable zones. At the Popesti-
Leordeni State Farm, for instance, preparations in the vegetable sector are
in full swing. The vegetable growing plan for 1953 was increased 45 percent
over 1952. Vegetable gardens will be irrigated 100 percent in 1953, as against
only 30 percent in 1952. Irrigation installation work has been started in
Glina and Gradini. More than 60,000 cubic meters of soil have been removed;
water distribution basins and main and secondary canals have been cut; con-
struction of three pumping stations has been started. Furthermore, 38,000 tons
of natural fertilizer have been spread on the fields. More than 15,000 square
meters of land have been prepared for seedlings; this represents 70-percent of
the plan. Local collectivists pledged to construct with materials from their
local resources 600 square meters of hothouses and to set up 5,000 square meters
of seedling plots. The collectivists have already planted 3,000 square meters
of lettuce, parsley, and spinach, using new varieties which resist cold weather.
The management of the state farm provided the necessary seed and distributed
it to the various sectors.
Most of the machines and implements are already repaired and ready for
use. Repair work on 12 irrigation pumps has almost been completed. Soviet
irrigation methods will be applied. Granulated superphosphate will be used
as fertilizer. Agriculturist Garabet Vaschet is studying the use of a ma-
chine for mechanical replanting of tomato seedlings. Gardeners Ion Marcov,
Ion Pitigoi, Maria Radu, and Silvia Blindia, tractor operator Aftenie Roman,
and mechanic Mircea Cobzaru were specially active in competition work.
CONSTRUCT IRRIGATION CANAL -- Bucharest, Romania Libera, 9 Jan 53
The Pitesti Regiune People's Council is particularly interested in de-
veloping vegetable planting. A work plan has already been put into opera-
tion. Each raion will distribute the gardening lots, implements, and the
necessary seed. Collectives in Valea-Mare-Podgoria, Stefanesti, Ulesti,
Jugureni, and Calinesti will increase the areas planted with vegetables.
Construction of a 2-kilometer irrigation canal from the Arges River to the
Rastoaca and Potop rivers in Gaesti Raion is to be completed by 1 March 1953.
An area of 800 hectares will be irrigated by this canal. It is planned to ex-
tend the irrigation canal from the rice fields of the Ratesti Commune state
collective to Petroaia, in order to irrigate an additional 400 hectares,
INCREASE OF VEGETABLE ZONE AROUND TURNU-SEVERN -. Bucharest, Romania Libera,
16 Jan 53
The Turnu-Severin Raion People's Council decided to increase the areas of
vegetable planting? The first step was to find land adequate for cultivation
of vegetables and capable of irrigation. An area of 108 hectares was chosen,
7.,5 hectares of which are actually at the ou.skirts of the town.
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Important areas for vegetable gardening were also chosen in Bistrita,
8rgheviat, Cernet, and Izvorul-B
ersei communes. These gardens will be
irrigated from local sources, never used before. A special agent was appointed
to supervise work in each commune.
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