REPORT OF NORTHWEST CHINA AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT ON PRODUCTION ACHIEVEMENTS, FIRST QUARTER 1951

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030015-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: November 8, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/17: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030015-0
CLASSIFICATION SECURITY- INrORMAT?OXONFI!FEN 03o
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY REPOIi1
INFORMATION FROM
FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS CD NO.
COUNTRY China
SUBJECT Economic - Agriculture, forestry
HOW
PUBLISHED Daily newspaper
WHERE
PUBLISHED Sian
DATE
PUBLISHED 13 M&y 1951
LANGUAGE Chinese
CTNFl gCYNlNT cONNINI OroNYAnoN u/NCnN nl NMNNILL plnNll
'01 TNl YNOp lilnl NlnlN iwi ~4NINl pr OY...... ACT :p
/. 1. c.. l I ANp n. u ?Nawplp. m TuuualoN ow rxl u:lunoN
O.. llilp r[llpN Il rro
01 ITf C
.1 LA. IN ANf N]NNO 01 ro IN MS / VNNN U
Nnlnp NT ll~. NINppYrnpN rlONnlnp.
SOURCE Chun-chung Ji'n-pao.
DALE OF
INFORMATION 1951
DATE DIST. $ Nov 1951
NO. OF PAGES 7
SUPPLEMENT TO
REPORT NO.
THIS IS IINEVALUATED INFORMATION
REPORT OF NORTHWEST CHINA AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY DEPARTMENT
ON PRODUCTTOIV_ACHII VEMEPTTS, FFIRSTT QUARTER 1951
/C,tton growing has expanded noticeably in the Northwest during
1951. In four Special Admtnietrative. Districts the increase in acre-
age was 297,000 mow above thar of 1950 and 125,000 mow above the
original plans (one mou eqn? s lib e:rei,
Some 8 million trees have Qyeady been se+ in 195_i, In one
local area in Shensi 180,000 trees were eat out ,1: 4 days. From 60
to 70 percent of this year e planting s aurvty;t:F. Forest-fire
control is being actively pr,ttoteo
Government loans tr.taiing 22,Y .000,000 year nave been advanced
to farmers this year tr get the agr cu]tire! program well under way.
Considerable quantities of =e.iief grain have been issued on a loan
basis to sufferers from the spring drought and floods.
Aggressive leadership has been diup!ayed it,, the Northwest thus
far in 1951 in preparing and carrying o:.t agricultural production
plans. Many conferences ;u all levels have been held to arouse en-
thusiasm and extend guidance in toe spring planting program. Over
1,000 reassigned lend-reform arid eapeclally recruited cadres have
been busy leading the program.
Some of the usual defcrta have shown up, such as lack of thorough
indoctrination, deviation in r,ctiv_Ties, formalism, and enthusiasm
without sufficient knov]edee I',-rinuous promotion of training pro-
grams is still essantial. There are serious shortages of farm tools,
implements, and work animals, since the increased purchasing power
of the farmers has greatly stepped up the demand for them. Peasant
patrol:. ate being organized to prevent forest and field fires by
saboteurs .7
- 2 -
CLASSIFICATION _CNFIDENfTAt
STATE JJ NAVY NSRB DISTRIBUTION
ARMY AIR FBI ~~~--T-
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/17: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030015-0
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/17: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030015-0
tORTIOEHIIAL
CONFIDENTIAL
r
Great progress has been made this spring in the agricultural production of
Northwest China. This progress is largely due to: (1) the people's enthusiastic
desire to produce, (2) sound leadership, and (3) early commencement of work.
Spring crops have been planted on time, Even in deficient areas (such as Wei-
yuan and Yu-shu hsiens in Ching-hvi Province, Ho?.lan and Ping-lo helens in
Nirgsia Province, Lin-hsia, F:ac-ttai, Yung-teng, and Wu-wei hsiens in Kansu
Province), the problem of seed shortage has been solved with the assistance of the
Cer.tral People's Government and loans freely and actively made among the people.
The cultivated areas have maintained the level of 1950.
Generally, the winter at fields of this regicn have been carefully hoed
at least once. Those in central and southern Shensi Frovince have been hoed
twice sr.' the weeds there have boFn p.i:-ed once With the exreptlon of a small
area in sc,thern 0hensi wht.i. is . -? insect~ and wheat diseases, most
of he wheat fle]ds in ot.h=- rpr- .,ntr aci a-e expected to yield 70-80
percent of the previnc:s 1?ec-t,, .
As for cotton growing, prise equalization and
advance purchasing, the tats. sn>F.i 3e much larger than that of
the previous year. AccorJi:,y, . is e lcd by t.._ Speztel Sdministrative
Districts of Hang-Yang, We: r., Ia: c nd r:g, -he total cultivated
-ottcn area is 297,00'] m"'u 't,:t an increase of
125,000 mou or 73.2 percent tt- ?.`-a1 aree crig:nai.y planned to be cul-
tivated. Besides this, m,r,t of :.eid?3 are we:: watered. Many
people are row planting cotta t:ail, ;t,1ct e f.rmer,y used for planting
melons, vegetables, and th,. c .+h::0 - froze,i luit +.pring,such as
barley, oats, vegetable see ! .. and peas luny people are
clearing other land that ha, t r 'wc; ~ , p i t , yw.-- r r:p:eparat3,'.: r. 'r planting cotton.
With regard to new m-ttc.,'.., ,. g-ew:ng, tc?- ?O,000 p,ouls of fine
cottonseed loaned this sprang by ... ?teec .Ynv:ncia1 g:vernment have been
used in experimentation e.l r"i'ati?n rac:- het bean f?+,r,3 tc be well
above 78 percent. A; e. r :eul, rt?.?'s._ ^xn-riments, many cotton growers in cen-
tral and southern Shers: ens seed se1-:?tion. For ex-
ample, under the personal Z,u:........ .. , : to of Yang
Soler,, over 9,000 rn*tnn-grrn.i' 1r T t: fh'i-li, and
13 other listens partic:paced in m., They selected more
than i-6,O0o cattle, of eI e.. .,- .-., :can 15,000 meu or
approximately one fif*_n ... ;tr However,
due to cold weather and ep .r..;e. - 1-?.r. retn-r .l.er.e in sprout-
ing.
According to repnrrr, fr..^ *, ,i Admin:strat:ve District and
a few other districts, abc??:t I?rr : C oaseed scan have slrouted.
In Wei-nan Special Admin:et.re,:v-- 1i,rr,ct s1 ,?: ,.r :rig w:,ss complete in about 20
percent of the cotton fields. 1n-.e Other li..ricts are now in the process
of sprouting. Due to the foci tt,?,n.t.-fnO farmer; dad not completely master the
methods of cotton glowing, !n:?c:ts rr..:r? med. ....ir appearance in a few areas.
Yet most of the farmers havr_ been rr.r :...f:, 11-., proving cotton this spring
than they had been in the pre,;!-- e;,d ''t-. manure r,iC been used in fer-
:.ilizing tie fields.
in addition to uei::g ^.. demolished old earthen bed%,
old mod walls, and th earth to scatter on the
fields. Others dug mod f.. f,: tke same p.crpoee. Generally
speaking, the wheat field; :n i3 1r. ,..-e have been fertilized with two more
cart loads of marureper mau th'in an_;, ie,' year,
The cotton fields :r. r Frr.vir.: have he-n ipread with bean
refuse, besides being p_?-el t-'. ar:d fern,liz-_d with three to five part
scars of manure ( making n.. of one t,-ilf ?::, two cart loads). At K'o-
sheng-chang in Chang-an lama, ..: -rtual ;stan;:e ,r-i.p has reduced the former
Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/17: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030015-0
 Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2011/10/17: CIA-RDP80-00809A000700030015-0
CONFIDENTIAL
di.wentions of the village wall (1.97.4 inches high and 12.6 inches wide) to -
98.7 and 70.5 inches, using the esrth thus obtained to p_?epare more than 800
cart leads of manure. The farmer- in Ban-yuan Hsinn have bought 2,400 new
iron hoes to plant cotton more deeply, The farmers of Ningsia and Tsinghai
provinces are rapidly switching to row planting, -tr, e they have discovered
tl;t this helps save seed, makes it easier hoe tna grass, results in fewer
tnse,:ta and diseases, saves labor, produces greater ..saves'., and improves
the ;ua' ity of the cotton,
in Kansu 'rovince, f.r me ,-,,yrpoae c.' eiimlrating indents and diseases,
-cote and copper carbcrare !'save beer, used ;r: ,:cn,; n:,ion with the planting
cottoc,aeed over an are. of 160:000 m:... ,-.;, >_n increase of 60 percent
Clove Inc area spenified in the c i~_nal olar..
The Bureau of Agrioultone .-eo;i r, ??,.::- has established 14 model eta-
:rre,.owerlog an area If u asp-r_--?:.r' vrh new methods of growing
crtt.;n. The work Is to be dL-ne oy t u Lrpr,r a:=rt of AR-icultural Experimenta-
tion with the cooperation of worker her:.en
To prevent floods and drought, var.-.avs are being cleared and dams re-
paired throughout the entire regiCr., ..,- '?am at ..r in Shensi Province was
opened or. 16 April to irrigate t s.:rr-a%dir.a f;elds. As a result, the total
irrigated area has been increased fr:m 1_C, Gv m u to 100,000 or 250,000 mou.
In Ningsia Province, the Irrv!r.cta' f,._?;?;Zorn car re:r,ri?ei more than 40,000
-iv_lian workers t:. opals t',e dam .? -._, y::d c n t.k:n: o provinces, the work
_m dams !~ being dc.-.- by ! .r-,, r; _ .... In n-n.e areas, irrigation
.,rr_n1t'.ees have bee:, orrur.toed ?r, ..., :- c:?..,. . r1_Cte of produc:polic.ie:, have not been fully made:
known to the cadre staffs and the pecpie end It, certain cases there is dissatis-
faction and deviation in the method of carrying out those policies. For example,
in many areas where the practice of 1=ndin.- ,nd borro:-inv has been adopted, the
malpractice of the so-called "demand borr_'a r,.-" has :_!>r. :curred. in the pro-
gram of mutual assistance and :e rrr.:: g work tr..; much stress
has been placed on forms and fors:alic_s:. Brea of itrumchi. .ndts-
criminate felling -?f trees nas .,sit:n.ra ?
The cost obvious defect, ,> - : r-.z- ; ff' w : i?er, are full of
rr;tlusiasm but lack sound idea' aci tLey fir'd it easier to rally
me pecpie than to give t!:???rc o 9 . :.ea" steff
workers have not coordinated 111 asps,', .: w?;ri: pr. : ion, relief,
laid reform, and the desist America, A:: F: