THRESHING, QUOTA DELIVERIES, PLANTING IN RUMANIA, JULY 1953

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700150044-5
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 13, 2011
• Sequence Number: 44
• Publication Date: November 16, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRI' Rumania
SUBJECT Economic -Agriculture, harvest, MIS, quota
deliveries
HOW
PUBLISH- Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Bucharest
DATE
PUBLISHED 1 - 23 Jul 1953
LANGUAGE Rumanian
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THRF,SHING, QUOTA DELIVERIES PLANTING IN RUMANLA JULY 1953
EXPERIA.IENTAL SUMMER POTATO PLANTING -- Bucharest, Munca, 3 Jul 53
Summer potato planting according to the Soviet Lysenko method ryas
attempted for the first time in Rumania in eight selected areas. Planting of
summer potatoes started 20 June 1953? Constants Regiune was allotted 50
percent of the total experimental planting area which also included Arad,
Bucharest, Galati, and Oradea regiunes.
SELECTION OF SEED BARLEY __ guchareat, Romania Libera, 1 Jul 53
Caracal Raion, Craiova Regiune, sent technicians to inspect seed barley
fields set aside at state farms and collectives for the 1954 seed supply.
A technician sent by the executive committee of the raion people's
council inspected 20 hectares of Cenad barley 395 at the Traian Collective,
Traian Com-lone, 10 hectares at a collective in Ama:asti-de-Sus Commune, and
20 hectares at a collective in Bucinisu Commune. Seed barley is threshed and
stored separately.
BARLEY QUOTAS DELIVERED -- Bucharesi, Romania Libera, 9 Jul 53
State farms, collectives, and individual peasants of Caracal Raion,
Craiova Regiune, have delivered then full quotas of barley.
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QUOTA DELIVERIES SHORT OF PLAN -- Bucharest, Munca, 2 Jul 53
Santana Commune, Arsd Regiune, d?livered only 17 percent of its quarterly
meat quota. The executive committee cf the commune people's council was to
blame. Of the two collectors in charge, one went to school and the other was
on vacation during the harvest. Kulaka Anton Mandl, Mihai Poar, Gheorghe Zama,
William Wilsemaier, and Stefan Musca wer^ a'_lowed to sabotage collections.
Furthermore, Pavel Greco and Ioan bsrtin, employees of the people's council,
neglected their duties.
MEAT AND MILK COI,LECTiON BEHIND SCHEDU'..E -- Bucharest, Romania Libera, 1 Jul 53
Meat and milk collection is behind schedule in Dragasani Raion, Pitesti
Regions. This shortcoming is to be blamed on saboteur Stefan Berian, member
of the raion council, and six collectors who helped kulaks to sabcta~c
collections.
BALS FAION FAILS TO PPBPARE THRESHING PLATFORMS -- Bucharest, Romania Libera,
1 Jul 53
Harvesting progressed wail in Bals Rion, Craiova Regiune, but little
preparation was made for threshing> A decree of the Council of Ministers,
issued on 9 May 1953, stipulated that all threshing platforms were to be
set up by l5 June and that threshing was to start 5 days after reaping.
However, only nine of the 120 platforms schedti.ed were set up by 25 June.
In Popanzalesti Commune not one of the six threshing platforms scheduled
had been set up. In Dragotesti, the executive committee of the people's
council did nothing to improve the situation. Threshing machines were not
tested and kulak Stefan Constantin had not even repaired his threshing
machine.
MTS NOT FREFARED FOR THRESHING -- Ducharest, Romanis Libera, 9 Jul 53
While the harvest progressed wail, the executive committee of the
Filimon Sarbu Raion People's Council, Galati Regiune, failed +,o realize
the need for settii;g up threshing platforms and neglected to draw up a
proper plan for threshing. In Mircea-pods Commune, for example, the plan
provided for 42 days of threshing, while the work aciually required only
i5 days. Many MTS were not prepared to start threshing end the grain re-
mained 1n the fields.
MTS AND STATE FARMS IN IASI REGIUNE NOT READY TO START THRESHING -- Bucharest,
Munca, 8 Jul 53
Bortas ~n~, Chairman of the Agricultural Workers Union Committee
of Iasi Regiune, failed to assist and guide agricultural planning. Machines
and implements nee.ied for the harvest were in poor shape and MTS were
neg3igent. The Iugan and Moara Grecilor MTS, the Todiresti State Fs.rm, and
the Iasi Machine Repair Center were all behind in their work. At the Pascani
State Farm weeds choked plants and at the Razboeni State Farm 200 hectares of
plants were completely overgrown. However, Gheorghe Apostol, chairman of the
administrative committee of this state farm, was not disturped by this sit-
uation. At the Bucium Si;ate Farm 75 percent of the vegetables spoiled and at
the Avereatt State Farm 20 hectares of corn were chcked by weeds because of
lack of workers. Aktiva have become sinecures ara =scaly "visit" farms and
MTS. Raion committees neglect their work.
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LACK OF TRANSPORTATION FOR GRAIN IN TIMISOARA REGIUNE __ guchareat, Munca,
'- Jul 53
The harvest was well advanced at the Cenei, Jimbolia, Voiteai, and
Besenova-Noua state farms, but by 25 Ju~.y 1953 not one truck had arrived to
transport the grain and consequently 195 tons remained in the fields.
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO FODDER CROPS -- Bucharest, Munca, 23 Jul 53
The hog-fattening station of the Galda-de-Jos State Farm, Alba Raion,
Hunedoara Regiune, set np 73 hectares of special pastures. In addition, it
planned 400 hectares of vetch, bar:ey, oats, corn, and fodder beets. New
stables were set up for lives+,ock. The number of bovines is 300 percent
greater than in 1952, and the number of hogs is 230 percent greater.
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