SOVIET EXPERTS AID CHINESE AGRICULTURE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700150001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: R
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: November 12, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture, techniques
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SOURCE 1952 Jen-min Shou-ts'e (people's Handbook), pp 354-356
fomment and summary: The first section of this report,
originally from a Hsin-hua She news release of 8 November 1951,
reveals that Soviet agricultural specialists in China are supply-
ing advice on crop production, animal husbandry, and agricultural
machinery designing, as well as assisting in the formulation of
government regulations, especially in the field of animal disease
prevention.
The second section, cited from the Peiping Jen-min JihJenmin Jih- ado
of 14 May 1952, sets forth the ideas of Lysenko, the Soviet
agronomist, on the application of scientific ideas in Chinese
agriculture and the responsibilities of agricultural scientists
experts. It improves soils and reduces weed growth. A number of state farms
are adopting the practice. High production figures such as 1,889 catties of
cotton, 1,350 catties of wheat, and 1,975 catties of rice per mou, respectively,
of diseased carcasses, instead of the old, blind dependence on injections alone.
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Troitski.y, a Soviet expert, has given valuable advice in the development
of livestock stations and promotion of livestock management and feeding pro-
grams. In artificial insemination breeding programs the rate of conception
in mares has risen to 85 percent at the K'o-shan Hsien Livestock Station in
Heilungkiang.
Malakhitonov, Chernikov, and Belov, Soviet experts, gave training lectures
in winter 1950 to classes of workers and staff members of state farms. In
these lectures they emphasized the close relationship between mechanical know-
ledge and knowledge of agricultural principles in the successful use of farm
machinery to increase production. The Soviet experts have also given much
help in the development of farm-machinery factories. Kutsuliyechov, a Soviet
expert, aided in designing the four-row seeders now being manufactured at the
North China Central Farm Machinery Factory.
Lysenko assisted in developing the aerial insecticide dusting program.
Lysenko Discusses Improved Techniques
Lysenko, a Russian agronomist serving as a specialist with the government
of the People's Republic of China, in a lecture to a training class of Chinese
state farm cadres, held in Peiping, made certain observation; on agricultural
techniques in China.
Lysenko stated, in discussing the high cotton Lunginne7-production record
(912 catties per mou) of Ch'u Yao-li in Shansi, that if Ch'u would increase the
number of his cotton plants per mou from 3,163 to 4,000 plants, he could raise
his production to 1,500 catties per mou. While the present areas of high pro-
duction are limited, they can be continuously expanded, and for this, agricul-
tural technicians are responsible. Scientific theories will have to be applied
in Chinese agriculture to achieve these results, and with such application there
need be no arbitrary limits to production.
Lysenko pointed out shortcomings in the operations of some of the state
farms which the workers were inclined to gloss over, attributing the results
of their mistakes to natural calamities such as insects and hail. Lysenko said
that farmers must master the forces of nature and not permit such calamities to
hinder production.
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