MISCELLANEOUS USSR AGRICULTURAL DATA, 1943 - 1947

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• Publication Date: July 10, 1952
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CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
COUNTRY USSR
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture
REPORT
CD NO.
DATE OF
INFORMATION 1943 - 1947
HOW
PUBLISHED Monthly periodical DATE DIST. (0 JAY 1952
WHERE
PUBLISHED Moscow NO. OF PAGES 4
DATE
PUBLISHED Sep 1943 - Nov 1947
Sotsialisticheskoye Sel'sko a Kboz aystvo.
MISCELLANEOUS USSR AGRICULTURAL DATA, 1943 - 1947
AREAS SOWN TO BARLEY AND OATS IN CENTRAL CRERNOZEM REGION -- Sotsialisticheskoye
Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, No 9, Sep 43
The area sown to barley in dblasts of the ventral chernozem region consti-
tutes less than one third of the entire area sown to fodder grains in this
region. In Kuybyshev Oblast, the area sown to oats is 3.5 times that sown to
barley. In Stalingrad Oblast, the area sown to oats is 0.4 times that sown
to barley.
Data apparently is for current year (19113). This article is principally
concerned with relative yields of oats and barley. The argument presented is
for conversion to the higher yielding crop in any given region. The need for
more fodder grain is stressed
AREA SOWN TO GRAINS IN KAZAKH SSR -- Sotsialisticheskoye Sel'skoye IOlozyaystvo,
No 1, Jan 44
The following table shows the area sown t grains in the Kazakh SSR:
Year Area (1,000 ha) Year Area (1,000 ha)
1913 3,913 1939
5,513
1928 3,827 1940
5,834
1932 4,496 1941 6,263
1937 5,155 1942
6,869
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In 1913, the Kazakh SSR sowed 4.1 percent of the total area sown to grains
in Russia and produced 2.8 percent of the total grain harvest for that year.
In 1938, the Kazakh SSR sowed 5.2 percent of the total area sown to grains in
the USSR and produced 6.5 percent of the total grain harvest for that year.
The following table represents the distribution of the area sown to grains
in the Kazakh SSR:
Percent of Total Area Sown to Grains
Year
Winter Grains
Spring Wheat
Millet
Fodder Grains
(Barley, oats,
and maize)
1913
6.7
61.5
11.7
18.3
1940
8.9
55.1
15.3
20.2
1942
11.2
51.6
15.9
20.8
1938 (USSR)
35.6
26.3
3.8
31.6
KOLKROZES INCREASE SOWN AREA -- Sotsialisticheckoye Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo,
No 4, Apr 44
The total sown area in kolkhozes of the USSR in 1944 is to increase
7,550,000 hectares over 1943, including an increase of 5,440,000 hectares in
the area sown to grains.
In 1943, the area sown to vegetables in kolkhozes of Moscow Oblast was
116.4 percent of 1941. In Ivanovo Oblast, this figure was 150 percent; in
Gor'kiy Oblast, 105.4 percent; in Yaroslavl' Oblast, 130.9 percent; in
Sverdlovsk Oblast, 157.9 percent; in Chelyabinsk and Kurgan oblasts, 114.7
percent; in Novosibirsk and Kemerovo oblasts, 138.2 percent; and in Omsk
Oblast 119.7 percent.
INCREASE AREA SOWN '0 OLEAGINOUS CROYS -- Sot.sialisticheskoye Sel'skoye
Khozyaystvo, No 5-6, may - Jun 44
Before the war, oleaginous crops occupied 3.4 percent of the total sown
area in the USSR, and 42 percent of the area sown to industrial crops. In
the prewar ,,eriod, almost 71 percent of the area sown to oleaginous crops was
devoted to sunflowers; in 1942, this figure decreased to 58 percent.
In the period 1940 - 1942, the area sown to sunflowers in Altay Kray in-
creased by 13,600 hectares; in Novosibirsk Oblast, this figure was 6,900
hectares; in Kazakh SSR, 23,400 hectares; and in the Georgian ,SR, 1,700
hectares. In 1942, 84 percent of the area sown to false flax (ryzhik) in the
USSR was located in Altay and Krasnodar krays, Novosibirsk, Omsk, and Irkutsk
oblasts, and the Kazrkh FSR. In 1940 - 1942, 45 percent of the area planted to
peanuts was located in Uzbek SSR and 44 percent in the Georgian SSR. In 1942,
97.3 percent of the area sown to soybeans was located in Primorskiy and
Khabarovsk krays. In 1942, 99 percent of the area sown to sesame was located
in Uzbek, Tadzhik, Turkmen, Azerbaydzhan, and Kazakh SSRs.
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The following table shows the distribution of the area sown. to oleaginous
crops in the USSR (in percent):
Sunflower
70.9
58.0
Castor
11.8
1.4
Oil flax
7.4
8.0
Mustard
6.3
12.0
False flax
2.2
10.6
Winter rape
1.5
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Peanut
0.5
0.3
Soybean
4.5
7.1
Perilla
0.2
0.2
Sesame
1.7
2.4
1945 AREA SOWN TO OATS AND BARLEY -- Sotsial.isticheskoye Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo,
No 10, Oct 45
Approximately 300,000 hectares are sown to barley and 150,000 hectares
to oats in the following regions: Vologda Oblast, the southwest part of the
Komi ASSR, Molotov Oblast, the steppe regions of Altay Kray, Krasnoyarsk Kray,
North Kazakhstan Oblast, and Alma-Ata Oblast. There are 700,000 hectares
sown to barley in the following regions: Gor'kiy, Molotov, Chelyabinsk, Kurgan,
Omsk, NovosibL?'sk, Kemerovo, Chita, Kustanay, North Kazakhstan, and Pavlodar
oblasts; Mari, Bashkir, and Dagestan ASSRs; end Altay and Krasnoyarsk Krays.
Data is apparently for the year 1945]
LARGE AMOUNT OF FALLOW AVAILABLE TO USSR AGRICULTURE -- Sots ialist icheskoye
Sel'sknye Khozyaystvo, No 10-1] Get - Nov 46
Fallow occupies a considerable portion of the land in Siberia, the Kazakh
SSR; the Volga region, and several other zones. According to data of the Land
Management Admiristration of the Ministry of Agriculture USSR, such fallow
totals 45 million hectares. That pc'tion which was last plowed more than 5
years ago totals at least 10 millio,i hectares.
UKRAINIAN SSR REPORTS INCREASES IN SOWN AREA, LIVESTOCK NUMBERS -- Sotsialis-
ticheskoye Sel'skoye Khozyaystvo, No 11, Nov 47
In 1920, the total sown area in the Ukrainian SSR was 70 percent of 1913,
the number of h:,rses was 39 percent, cattle 32 percent, and hogs 60 percent.
There were 27,742 kolkhozes, 875 sovkhozes, and 1,225 MPS in the Ukraine
in 1940. They possessed 90,570 tractors, 31.150 comtines, and more than 50,000
motor vehicles.
The Soviets gave kolkhozes of the Ukraine more than 35 million hectares
of land. By 1938, the total sown area was 3 million hectares greater than in
1913. In 1913, the distribution of the sown area was as follows: grains, 90.5
percent; industrial crops, 3.5 percent; and fodder crops, 2.2 percent. In the
first years of the Third Five-Year Plan, the sown area was broken down as fol-
lows: grains, less than 70 percent; industrial crops, 9.4 percent; fodder
crops, 12.8 percent; and vegetables and cucurbits, 8.2 percent. The gross
grain harvest increased during this pe-:-iod, and the area sown to win-cer crops
almost tripled. The areas sown to legumes, buckwheat, and maize increased.
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The area planted to sugar beets rose from 533,600 hectares in 1913 to 805,600
hectares it 1938, and the total area sown to industrial crops tripled. During
the same period, the area sown to fodder crops increased from 501,900 hectares
to 3,299,600 hectares, including a considerable increase in sown fodder grasses.
In 1940, the average grain yield for the Ukraine was 14.6 quintals per hectare.
As of 1 January 1941, there were 10,593,000 cattle and 9,003,000 hogs in
the Ukrainian SSR. In 1945, livestock on kolkhozes increased as follows:
cattle, 33 percent; sheep and goats, 50 percent; and hogs more than doubled.
During 1944 - 1945, cattle on kolkhozes increased more than during the 10 years
preceding 1939.
In 1945, the prewar level of sowings was exceeded as indicated for the
following crops: sunflowers, 25 percent; millet, 21 percent; maize, 6 percent;
and beans more than doubled. In 1944, the area planted to sugar beets was 35
percent of prewar, and in 1945, it was 52 percent of prewar. In 1946, the total
area in the Ukraine was 81.2 percent of prewar, and kolkhozes had 60 percent of
their prewar number of cattle, 23 percent of hogs, 29 percent of sheep and
goats, and 32 percent of horses.
In spring of 1947, the plan for sowing grain was exceeded. Spring wheat
was sown to an area of 839,400 hectares, which was 235,000 hectares more than
in 1946, and 39,400 hectares above the plan. In 1947, the area planted to
sugar beets was 639,000 hectares, which was 112,000 hectares more than in
1946.
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