ECONOMIC - FOOD SUPPLY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: July 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 876
• Publication Date: August 11, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY TTSSR
SUBJECT Economic .1 Food Supply
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PUBLISHED Monthly periodical
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PUBLISHED Moscow
DATE
PUBLISHED
LANGUAGE
,Tan 1949
Russian
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SOURCE Myasnaya !ndustriya, No 1, 1949.
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SUPPLEMENT 10
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
EASTERN MEAT SITUATION IMPROVES U?DER STRICT DISCIPLINE;
12 F1RED, 7 TRIED FOR GRADING ERRORS
In accordance with the decision of the February plenum of the TsR V%P(b),
the kolkhozes and sovkhozee in the East achieved in 1948 notable succeeeeb in all
branches of agriculture, including cattle raising. As a result, the annual
meat-delivery plan was fulfilled by the Glavzagotekot Vostoka (Main
Administration of Cattle Breeding of the East) in all sectors.
The Altey Kray Station took first place among the meat producers. Kazakh
SSR, which must produce 30 percent of all the meat, ftl-i11led its quota 100.3
percent. The kolkhozes in this area met their quota 100 percent.
The following stations, likwise, fulfilled their quotas-, Yakutsk, Chkaxv,
Cuita; Chelyabinsk, Tuva, Sverdlor, Molotov, F.urgan, Krasnoyarsk, and Buryat-
Mongol.
Along with tho euceealiful completion of the cattle-raising plan must be noted
the increase of high-grade cattle. Airing 9 months of 1948, fat livestock and
stock above average totaled 4.6 percent of ell cattle fattened as against
2.7 percent in 1947; average cattle totaled 64 percent as against 52 percent.
The kolkhozes of Kazakh SSR, in. particular, produced well-fed cattlc.
During a period of 9 months, they aelivered ;o the state a total of 97.4
percent of large horned-cattle that was fat, above average, or averag++ as compared
with 92.7 percent in 1940,
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49.8 percent. Poor care of the cattle by inexperienced herders and the laxity
of local officials are blamed for the inferior product.
On the other hand, strict conformi to the law, which fdrblds the
acceptance of low-grade cattle from the Nolkhozes, accounted for the improved
quality of the meat deliveries. The Ministry punished severely a number of
workers in the meat-stocking stations for violations of the law. In Tureen'
Oblast, tworeyon station managers, three base directors, and three receivers
were dienieoedr five persons were tried in court. In the Molotov Oblast Statlc^..:
four managers were dismissed for such violations, and two were tried in court,
During the past year, the Zagotskot system gave the country 212,500 centners
of meat in excess of plan, as compared with 115,560 excess centners in 1940.,
A total of 88,430 lambs and 15,865 calves were raised and delivered.to the
State.
in the t'ollowing localities; the X.azakh SSM Station, wilco compieteo onay
87 percent of its cattle-fattening plan; Chelyabinsk Oblast Station, with
94 percent; the.Tuman' Oblast Station, with 93 percent; and the Molotov
Oblast Station, with 92 percdnt.
In 1948 during the spring-.summer period, the Guryev Oblast Station drove
50,000 sheep and 4,000 head of cattle to the Orak Meat Combine over an average
distance of 1,700 kilometers. The Kzyl-Orda Oblast Station drove 42,000 head
of cattle and 10,000 head of sheep and goats to the Orsk Meat Combine, a distance
of 1,600 kilometers.
The Kazakhstan Oblast statics drive yearly, over great distances, as many
as 300,000 herd of cattle and up to a million sheep. The drive from the Alma-
Ata Station to he Semipalatinsk Meat Combine is 1,400 - 1,500 km. From the
Taldy-ICurgan Station to the Semipalatinsk Combine is 1,000 kilometers.
Ten years' experience of the.Glavzagotrkot shows that such movement of
cattle over grant distances is attended by a considerable increase in the
weight of the cattle.
In order to implement the Ministry's 1948 plan of 212,500 centners above
quota, thousands of herders drove through the Siberian frc,ats and storms without
any loss of cattle.
During the first 3 poetwar years, thousands of Stathanovite herders have
given the country 46,131 tons of top-quality meat and raised 243,600 lambs and
34,800 calves.
More and better equipped piggeries, capable of delivering 2,000 - 3,000
aniwale at a time, must be built. In the East, feeding stations must be bull'4
in the vicinity of alcohol plants and other food enterprises in ord^r to utilize
waste for animal food. who program of intensified feeding of cattle during the
autumn by utilizing crude fodder with admixture of concentrates and juicy
substances must be broadened to the utmost.
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