CRITICISM OF STATE FARM FORAGE PRODUCTION

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700090182-9
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• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 11, 2011
• Sequence Number: 182
• Publication Date: October 24, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION RESTRICTED
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INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY Poland
SUBJECT Economic; Political- Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
WHERE
PUBLISHED Warsaw
DATE
PUBLISHED Jun 1952
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THIS IS UNEVAL' TED INFORMATION
CRITICISM OF STATE FARM FORAGE YRCDUCTION
The following information is taken from one of 28 cceesn-
tories made by dignitaries of the PZPR (United Polish Workers'
Party) At the Seventh Plenum of its Central Committee, held
111 - 15 Jtme 1952. Each of the a
of ommmenteries is an as~iification
President Bierut'a opening
117 Nowe DS'o i speech and vas presumably edited
.
In the following the first secretary of the Olsztyn WoJewodztvo
Cosssittes of the PZPR says that neglect of forage production on
the Olsztyn RBI (Panstwowe Ooepodarstwa Roue, State Farms) is
hampering livestock production and that it is imperative that the
wojewodetwo and powiat committees give more time to the problem
and streagthan party influence in the state farms.
By Stanislav EY'upa, First Secretuny
Olsztyn WoJewodztwo Comittee, PZPh
Coo?*de Biernt devoted much time in his speech to the problem ct the PWI
which pla7 a very imp 'tent role in the agriculture of Olsz
ef the P
a~rionltural woJewodstwo. tyn, a tnically
In the current year, the Pt arr taking over 30,000 hectares of wasteland
which is more than the aoreaCe of ran new state farm groups. In the course of
the spring campaign, individual peasant farms, cultivation groups, and producers,
cooperatives liquidated a total of 112,000 hectares of wasteland, 38,000 of which
were plowed and sown. There are about 20,000 hectares left which will have to
be li dated in the fall. Part of this. will be plowed by new settlers. To
date 240 families have settled in Olcztyn Wojewodatvo but there are still more
than 500 buZldinge ready for new settlL-s. The major part of the wasteland,
hoover, vrill have to be cultivated by the POR and the producers' coopsrativee.
The fact that the POR are geared to grain production end that forage crop pro-
duction and livestock production are neglected is a great drawback. The shortage
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of forage crop resources is really responsible for the lag in livestock pro-
duction. There are still many good meadows and pastures in the wojewodztwo
which are not being used. We have been very neglectful in this respect.
This is responsible for the low yield of milk per cow even in the best PGR
groups in the wojewodztwc. For instance, the Rompy, one of the leading groups,
obtained a yield of 1,750 liters per cow in 1949 and achieved 2,000 liters in
1951, whereas there are many farms in Poland which obtain a milk yield of more
than 3,000 liters per cow.
Unfortu.ately, the wojewodztwo committees and the powiat committees have
devoted the least time to the most important problem in agriculture. Much time
has been devoted to small industrial establishments and very little time to PGR.
Party work among the individual peasants is on a higher level than in the FOR.
Yet the FOR, especially in Olsztyn Wojewosztwo, are supposed to constitute a
nucleus of socialism and examples for the individual farms. Up to now, we have
not worked hard enough to raise the level of party work in the PGR in the struggle
to increase their productivity.
'.Ie must assist the POR. The present POE administration is no longer the
administration of 1947 - 1949. At that time we struggled with Mikolajczyk
meddlers, but there has been a basic change in the FOR staffs. No doubt, there
are still some undesirables but these are being removed. However, a numb-r of
the committees and often even the wojewodztwo committee judge these people by
the old standards. This state of affairs must be changed. The position of the
staffs which are directing the work of the POE must be strengthened.
In our management of the FOR in the wojewodztwo, in working with the POE
staffs, and in carrying on the party organization work in the PGR, we have the
responsibility of giving the proper direction to the development of the FOR.
How quickly we are able to raise the level of PGR depends or this direction, on
our approach to the FOR worker, on our work with him, and on our party organi-
zation.
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