ISSUES ORDER ON PLANTING, CROP PURCHASE OF ALBANIAN INDUSTRIAL CROPS IN 1950

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• Publication Date: October 6, 1950
• Content Type: REPORT

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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL gqff UDkK'i LAL
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPORT
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY Albania
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Tirana
DATE
PUBLISHED 26 Feb 1950
LANGUAGE Albanian
["11 DOCUMENT CONTAINS INFORMATION AFFECTING THE NATIONAL DEFENSE
THE UNITED STATES WITHIN THE HEARING OF ESPIONAGE ACT SO
. SI D SE. AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR THE REVELATION
CETS IN ANY MANNER TO AN UNAUTHORIEEO PERSON IS PROEITEO ST LAW. REPRODUCTION OF THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1950
DATE DIST. 6 Oct 1950
NO. OF PAGES 6
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS UNEVALUATED INFORMATION
ISSUES ORDER ON PLANTING, CROP PURCHASE
OF ALBANIAN:IN!JSTRIAL CAOPS"LN 1950
Government Order No 10 of 24 February 1950, on the planting and crop pur-
chase of industrial crops in 1950, is issued for the purpose of improving the
supply of raw materials for Albanian industry, especially for the large tex-
tile and sugar combines. The planting of industrial crops in past years has
been unsatisfactory. Only small and scattered planting's were made, the peas-
ants did take proper care of them, the state did not offer sufficient techni-
cal assistance, the rate of production decreased, and the working peasants
did not take a proper interest in these crops.
Article 1 -- The old system of payment and incentives for the culture of in-
dustrial crops is suspended.
Article 2 -- Beginning in 1950, the crop purchase of industrial crops will be
effected on the basis of compulsory contracts signed by the Ministry of In-
dustry and the Crop-Purchase Committee with private farms and agricultural
cooperatives, expiring by 20 March. Contracts shall be signed with private
farms and agricultural cooperatives for the following areas of land to oe
planted in industrial crops: by the Ministry of Industry, sugar beets 1,350
hectares, tobacco 6,000 hectares, barley 800 hectares; by the Crop-Purchase
Committee, sugar beets 15,500 hectares, sunflowers 6,500, castor beZzs 1,500,
peanuts 1,000,_sesame 600, flepc 1,200, hemp 370 hectares.
The Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for the planting of indus-
trial crops, far all technicallservices, for insuring good quality, for in-
creasing productivity, for issuing all technical instructions, and for dis-
tributing selected seed and artificial fertilizer. The following quantities
of seed and fertilizer shall be distributed: cotton seed 7,750 quintals,
cantor bean seed 180 quintals; sesame seed 80 quintals, barley seed 1,200
quintals, sunflower seed 720, peanut seed 600, sugar-beet seed 410, hemp seed
30, chemical fertilizer 11,250 quintals.
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Seeds of industrial crops and chemical fertilizers shall be distributed
by the seed enterprises and paid for upon delivery. Private farmers and ag-
ricultural cooperatives that cannot afford to buy seed and chemical fertilizer
shall apply to the State Bank for credit, presenting their contracts.
Farmers who received sunflower, peanut, sesame, barley, and hemp seed in
the spring are required to return an equal amount of seed of the same quality
to the seed enterprises.
A progressive price scale for the crop purchase of industrial crops is
established, as follows:
1. Cotton, containing up to 2-percent foreign matter and up to 8-
percent moisture:
a. For those whose compulsory delivery quota is 6.8 quintals per
hectare, 2,000 lek per quintal will be paid for the first 4 quintals per
hectare, 3,000 lek per quintal for amounts over 4 quintals and up to 6.8
quintals, and 4,000 lek per quintal for amounts. above 6.8 quintals per hec-
tare.
b. For those whose quota is 5.5 quintals per hectare, 2,000 lek per
quintal will be paid for deliveries up to 3 quintals per hectare, 3,000 lek
for amounts between 3 and 5.5 quintals per hectare, and 4,000 lek per quintal
for amounts above 5.5 quintals per hectare.
2. Sunflower seed, containing up to 2-percent foreign matter and up to
13-percent moisture:
a. For those whose quota is 11 quintals per hectare, 462 lek per
quintal for amounts up to 8 quintals, 600 lek per quintal for amounts between
8 and 11 quintals per hectare, and 900 lek per quintal for amounts above 11
quintals per hectare.
b. For those whose quota is 9 quintals per hec-care, 462 lek will be
paid for amounts up to 5.6 quintals per hectare, 600 lek for amounts between
6 and 9 quintals per hectare, and 900 lek per quintal for amounts above 9
quintals per hectare.
a. For Class I farms, 100 1._ per quintal will be paid for amounts
up to 120 quintals per hectare, 200 lek per quintal for amounts between 120
and 155 quintals per hectare, and 300 lek per quintal for amounts above 155
quintals per hectare.
b. For Class II farms, 100 lek per quintal will be paid for amounts
up to 90 quintals per hectare, 200 lek for amounts between 90 and 120 quintals
per hectare, and 300 lek per quintal for amounts above 120 quintals per hectare.
4. Tobacco, tied in bundles weighing 20 to 25 kilograms, all qualities,
containing up to 18 percent moisture.
For domestic tobacco, 1,500 to 8,j00 lek per quintal will be paid,
according to quality; for Macedonian tobacco, 2,250 to 17,000 lek, according
to quality and variety.
5. Hemp, 160 to 232 lek per quintal, according to quality.
6. Flax, 200 to 250 lek per quintal, according to quality. (Thirty per-
cent more will be paid for surplus tobacco, hemp, and flax, regardless of
quality.)
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7. Castor beans, not shelled, containing up to 5-percent foreign matter
and up to 7-percent moisture: 750 lek per quintal, except that 1,000 lek per
quintal will be paid for surpluses.
8. Peanuts, containing up to 5-percent foreign matter and up to 11-
percent moisture, 1,500 lek per quintal, and 2,000 lek per quintal for sur-
pluses.
9. Sesame seed, containing up to 5-percent foreign matter and up to 10-
percent moisture, 810 lek per quintal, and 2,000 lek for surpluses.
10. Barley, containing up to 3-percent foreign matter and up to 10-
percent-moisture, 600.1ek per quintal, and 800 lek per quintal for surpluses.
11. Flax seed 1,100 lek per quintal, and 1,400 lek per quintal for sur-
pluses.
, Corn and manufactured goods will be made available for sale to pri-
vate farmers and agricultural cooperatives that sign and fulfill contracts
for the planting and delivery of industrial crops, as incentives, according
to the appended schedule. .
For tobacco, castor beans, peanuts, sesame, hemp, flax, and flax seed
delivered by producers in excess of their quotas, 30 percent more manufactured
goods will be made available as an incentive, at fixed prices.
Private farms and agricultural cooperatives teat have fulfilled their
quotas for compulsory deliveries may dispose of their surpluses freely, or
sell them, at fixed prices plus the incentives listed above, to the enter-
prises with which they have signed. Tobacco is excepted from these provi-
sions, because of the monopoly in the tobacco trade established by a govern-
ment order.
Article 3 -- Quotas for compulsory deliveries of industrial crops are estab-
lished for private farms and agricultural cooperatives on a territorial ba-
sis.
Article b -- The following deadlines for the planting of industrial crops
are established: 5 May for cotton, tobacco, peanuts; 10 April for sun-
flowers; 30 April for-castor beans; 15 May for sesame; 15 April for sugar
beets and hemp; 30 March for barley.
Article 5 -- Industrial plants shall be harvested as soon as they are ripe,
in accordance with instructions to be given by agricultural technicians.
The following deadlines are established for compulsory deliveries of
industrial crops by private farms and agricultural cooperatives: 30 November
for cotton, 30 October for sunflowers, 15 November for sugar beets, peanuts.
and castor beans, 30 September for flax and sesame, 31 August for barley,
and 15 October for hemp.
The tobacco harvest is to be completed by 15 September, and the plants
are to be uprooted by 30 September. The crop purchase of tobacco is to be
completed by 31 March 1951.
Article 6 -- Private farms and agricultural cooperatives are instructed to
plant industrial crops on suitable land, and in conformity with the contracts
and with the orders of the agricultural technicians.
Producers are required to cultivate, weed, etc., as specified in the
contracts and according to the instructions of the agricultural technicians.
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Article 7 -- Contracting enterprises will assist the producers of cotton, su-
gar beets, and tobacco with whom they have contracts by advancing them up to
40 percent of the total contracted for. Up to 15 percent may be advanced
after the rirst cultivation and 25 percent after the last cultivation. These
incentives will be granted on the basis of certification by the agricultural
technicians and crop-purchase authorities that the crops have been planted
and cultivated properly.
Article 8 -- Private farms and agricultural cooperatives that do not plant
the total area specified in the contract shall contribute 12 quintals of
corn to the grain fund for each hectare not planted.
Article 9 -- In case of extraordinary damage to an area, locality, or vil-
lage by fire, flood, drought, or disease, agricultural technicians shall in-
spect the area concerned, determine the extent of-the damage, and, if ad-
visable, lower the quotas for the damaged area.'
Article 10 Nonfulfillment of a contract for planting or the compulsory
delivery of industrial plants, resulting from malice aforethought, is pun-
ishable by 6 months' deprivation of liberty.
Article 13 -- This Order is effective as of the date of its publication in
Zeri 1.Popullit and Bashkimi. Order No 11 of 30 March 1949 and all other
contradictory provisions are hereby revoked.
LXppended schedule follows
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