COTTON PRODUCTION INCREASES; PURCHASING OF COTTON UNSAFISFACTORY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
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• Sequence Number: 37
• Publication Date: May 15, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COTTON PRODUCTION INCREASES -- Sofia, Rabatniche$ko Delo, 1 Nov 51
Cotton is an extremely Important industrial crop and the main
raw material of the Bulgarian textile industry. The increase of
its yield assures the cotton industry of a regular supply of raw
materials and the more satisfactory fulfillment of the textile
needs of the working people.
In the past, the fascist` rulers did not pay any attention to
the develo anent of cotton cultivation in Bulgaria, despite the
fact that conditions in the country are favorable for the growth
of that crop. The cotton grown in Bulgaria could not even meet
the monthly requirements of the cotton industry, although: its
much smaller than it is at present,, It was more profit-
capacity was
able at that time for the capitalist exploiters to import cotton
into the country. This assured larger and easier profits for them,
but it also meant great losses to the national economy.
Cognizant of the great importance of the cotton crop to
Bulgaria, the Party and the People's Government are greatly con-
cerned for its development. In order to encourage the growers to
increase? the amount of land planted with cotton and to increase
the cotton yield, a policy of subsidizing cotton growers has been
instituted. Besides the high prices that the state pays for the
cotton it jiirchases, the cotton growers receive, as premiums,
grain, seed-oil, fodder, textiles, and other goods at low fixed
prices.
The amount of land planted with cotton was especially increased
during he current year -- about 400,000 decares more were planted
this year than last. The amount of land planted with cotton in the
irrigated lands was also increased. Parallel with the increased size
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of cotton fields, the yields from a green plot of land were also
increased. Much progress has been made in the cultivation of
better'-grade ton -- the Soviet Union sent `seeds of a number of
high yielding and high.-grade cotton varieties to Bulgaria. Follow-
ing the example of the Soviet kolkhoze members, the Bulgarian
cotton growers are trying to obtain higher yields and to gradually
apply the progressive Sovi ~t agroteehnique of the crop. The
Georgi AleksandrOV Youth group from the farm workers' cooperatives
at Borets, Plovdiv Okoliya, has harvested more than 240 kilograms
of cotton per decare from a plot of 22 decares. It has already
become commonplace to obtain high.elds from large cotton fields.
From 480 decares planted with cotton, the cooperative members from
DoL1a Lipnitsa, Pavl ~ ikeni Okol'Ya, have obtained an average 160
kilograms of `cotton per decare.
The total. production of cotton this year is almost three times
greater than last Year9 and it will satisfy two-thirds of the
textile industry's needs. This is a great economic
Bulgarian
if it is remembered that only 3 years ago Bulgarian
achievement,
cotton production could satisfy only 15 percent of the industria 1
cotton requirement.
A goad cotton crop requires much attention for the timely picking,
purchasing, and ginning of high-quality cotton. This year, in compar-
ison wlththe pastthe farm workers' cooperatives, farmers, and the
,,....
"T ekst ilni Vlakna" (Textile T hreada) State Economic
of f icials of the
Enterprise were generally better prepared for the fulfillment of
,
these tasks.
In order to gather the large crop, cooperative members and
individual cotton growers must expend every ounce of energy so
that not a single ? kilogram of cotton ? is deft unpicked in the fields. The initiative of the administrative body and the Party
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al.
introducing the Soviet WorCa.ng method at Byala
organization, in
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Pole, Stara Zagora Ckoliya, is con endable. Thechaix~r~an of the
farm workerscooperative` at this village, Comrade Ivan Balabanov,
.
who was a member of the agricultural delegation which visited the
.
Soviet Union last year, has thoroughly acquainted the cooperative
members with the experience of the women cotton pickers from the
Soon all the Bulgarian women cotton pickers
kolkhozes at Kuban.
began using the accelerated picking method. The achievements in
that direction , made by the members of the farm workers cooper-
ative at Merichleri, are also notable. Applying the accelerated
method the woman cotton picker, Dona Mileva, has managed to pick
as much as 117 kilograms of cotton daily. Her example has been
followed by a large number of pickers at the farm.
do the cotton growers exert all their efforts
But not everywhere,
A number of villages in Plovidiv Okoliya
for timely cotton packing.
lag behind in that respect. There have been cases in Provadiya
Okoliya when certain members` of the farm workers' . cooperative have
left the cotton fields unpicked. It is an imperative duty of
..
v ts soviets and Party organizations to increase their village people
?zat and explanatory activity for timely cotton picking,
~.onal an
organa.
and to be merciless toward those who permit any squandering or waste
of this valuable raw material.
The activity of the officials of the "Tekstilni Vlakna"
Enterprise is of _ great importance for collecting and preserving the
cotton crop. They are required to create a system which will
insure the speedyacceptance of high-grade cotton from the cotton
growers, its timely ginning, and expediting. The branch of the
"Tekst ilnl vlakna!' Enterprise at Chrpan can serve as. an example
of successful handling of all these tasks. There the responsible
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ficient numbor of warehouses and
officials promptly' prepared a suf
aoce ante of the delivered aottan was
collection centers.. The
' em to ees took care that no cotton
dons quicl~ly 'and the ..:branch. s p y
plan for
., .
As a result of this preparation the p
was._ ercent by 24
purchasing cotton was fulfilled by more than 75 p
October.
on for the uninterrupted acceptance
A necessary conditl of
.
nning. Failure to d?
n from the growers is its speedy gi,
sett o
ollection centers to f11]- up and
the warehouses and a ~ e
this
branch of the nTekatilnl Vlaknat Ent r
impede regular work. The ,
nistrator is Comrade M. GrarnOvski,
prise at Pleven, whose adi
The work a rganiZat ion
has failed miserably in that respect.
care is taken to increase the
at the ginning mill is poor. No
often bog clown and remain
workers' qualifications. The r~achines o
idle only 50 percent of .their... capa-
city 1 ,rig time and, what is more,
sons the amount of cotton ginned
city is utilized. For these rea.
is not sufficient to meet the demand,
officials of the "Tekstilni Vlakna" .Enterprise.. do not
The
'on to the work of purchasing cotton
give the necessary. atte~l comes
Most of the cotton purchased now
from individual farmers.
at the explana-
3+ coo eratives, This indicates th
fromfarm worker p
so that
dual farmers must be intensified
tory work among lndzvi
e will pick the cotton more rapidlY and deliver it to the
th y
state warehouses, wincing them
cotton growers' experiences are con
Bulgarian
the great advantages to be obtained by growing cotton. Large
of
and a more prosperous life.
olds assure them large incomes
at the present time
~' :
eras made in cotton growing
The achievem
tainment. 'Much larger successes
e b no means the limit of at
ar by
regular application of agrotechn?Ical measures
can beobtained by
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rof stable
an tvation of th~.s p
d b ,ng ~? care the cud. d wi by axercis~ face th the ~as~
a cottoh growers are w
crops ~h~ gar on ~~nting i~ an exam-
ots set as~,de f or Cott
of px4paring the p~ w~,th cou~.ter
mn
m~.ng p autu P1?wing a
.manner by perfor dee
glary
5eed qu~liy i o prry
ds. The officials o the t,Telsstil, VLalu
f
~gher y1e1
obtain~.ng reserve for sowa.ng the
bests are q re uired to select and P
st such types.
The assaran of a w material for the
ce suf~iC1ent ~ of ra n
of cot o
r?ductlon
Otto a. unt
dustry, and an increase y the p
n cation
n n for uher developing
.~
goods require grey ter of forts to be in a p?
vata.on~ cults'
avian cotton growers
? The. goal is for g
sat~.af y the
completely
sition in the not far diant future to
~ h domestic Bulgarian
n to ,11e industxy wit
needs of the Bu~dria
COtton4
equipped plow' ce in the st&-e for
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G OF CCfTON UNSATISFI CT0iZY Sofia,. Rabotr i-Ohe~ ko Delo,
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23 Oct 51
'l'hQ cotter cro:c) in 1.~'leven Okoli,y is vory ~1rg) th1s yet:.
However, the b x,rich of the "Tek~3ti1ni Vlakn&' (Te:cti1e Threads)
has not yet set up a good system for
at~ite cononh1c Enterprise
purcha s ing the co tto n cra p ? Cot'ton is accept ed a't only one co].-
lect ter and only one scale is used, forcing the growers
~.on center
to wait hours for their turn.
The officials 0?' the branch do not adequately supervise
the cotton unloading. TAuch of this valuable product is lost
due to negligence. The conduct of the warehouse superintendent,
D. L~tiberov, concerning the safe-keeping of ' state property is an
r
example ?nizatio.ri. He has Instructed his 5bordiflateS
of . poor .. arga
to collect the trash, together with the spilled cotton, and burn
it, so that no one will' see it.
The a dm7. 'na.~ 'ctrator of` the branch, Comrade M. Gramovski, has
not prepared timely measures for executing; the campaign. The ginning
machines are hastily repaired with unsatisfElctory results -w one
cotton gin is riot even repaired.
The gins work for three shifts, and still nothing is done to
utilize the machines to their full capacity. The machines break
aria remain idle for a long time. On 17
down almost every day
October this year, one gin had been idle for about 15 hours.
There are no spare parts for repairing the gins.
The floor where the bailing presses roll is uneven. The
rolling of the presses is slow and hard and the workers lose
valuable time.
The gins and the shops are not kept clean, The bales are not
.
-~ r manner. ` Bales weigh from 70 to $0 kilogram _
made in a sata.SfGcto y
while they could easily weigh from 1C0 to 120 kilograms.
t h
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The above-~mont oned weaknesses have caused the plan of the i
to 16 October, to be fulfilled by only 32 percent
bunch, up
the quantity of cotton ginned is aiso very insufficient -- only
of the total cotton Teoeived. hEls b een ginned.
70 percent
The weaknesses permitted to occur in the acceptance, storage,
cotton are due to the unsatisfactory work method
and ginning of
and ate care of the workers. The a dtninistrator of the
~,nadec~u
a
branch does not pay much attention to the demands of the workers
for improving the cotton processing methods.
No concern whatever has been shown for increasing the tivorkerst
qualifications. Because there is insufi'icient superlvision, not a
a.
shift at the gin fulfills it .7 plan, but usually reaches
single
only 70 to S0 percent fulfillment of its plan.
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