PURCHASE OF SURPLUS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS UNSATISFACTORY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00039R000200090019-1
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 9, 2012
• Sequence Number: 19
• Publication Date: July 18, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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PURC!~SE OF SURPLUS AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS UNSATISFACTORY
Bulgarian Newspapers
Sofia
3 January 1952
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PURCHASE OF A.GRICUDTIJRAL SURPLUS UNSATISFACTORY -- Sofia,
Otechestven Front, 3 Jan 2
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Since 191 was a good crop year, the members of the farm wor-
c0operatives and individual farmers still have large quantities
of wheat, e, barley, oats, vetch, beans, corn, sunflower, and' others
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left over making their compulsory deliveries to the state. The
producers may dispose of these agricultural surpluses freely and may
sell them at free prices.
The Central Cooperative Federation and the "Zurneni khrani"
(',rains) State Combine are entrusted with their purchase. The ful-
fillment of the plan for the purchase of agricultural surpluses
shows that wherever the campaign was started in time and was well
organized the results have been satisfactory. For example, Novi Pazar,
Kolarov rad, Sevlievo, Oryakhovo, Yambol, Balchik, Tutrakan, and
other okoliyas, the plan is being fulfilled satisfactorily, But there
are okoliYas, such as Belogradchik Okoliya, where up to 1$ December
191 the Rayon Cooperative Federation had not purchased a single kil~
ogram of agricultural surpluses, and Kula Okoliya, too, the purchasing
campaign had not even begun by the same date.
The progress to date of the purchase campaign shows that the
responsible organizations have somewhat underestimated the importance
of this important objective of the national economy. There are too
few purchasing agents in some localities. For example, in Stalin
Oko.iya there are only 10 purchasing agents for 92 villages, in Kavarna
and in Plovdiv Okrug the l'Zurneni Khrani" State Com-
Rayon only four,
b has only 3S purchasing gents.
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At a number of localities over the country some of the pur~
ct'iasing agents are not active enough. How can one explain the fact
that in. Mikhaylovgrad Okoliya the "Zurneni Khrani'1 State Combine
engaged 2)i. purchasing agents but that up to 30. November they had not
purchased a single kilogram of grain? The example of Nikola Kilchev,
a purchasing agent at Peshtene, Vratsa Okoliya, who has already ful-'
filled his plan for to purchase of all agricultural products, must
be followed by the purchasing agents over the country. He owes his
success to the fact that he does his work diligently and skillfully
and. that he has constantly calls on the local People"s Soviet of
workers' deputies and the mass political organizations for assistance.
In the majority of cases the purchasing agents of the "Zurneni.
khrani State Combine and general cooperatives in the villages are
content to rent a small store in the village and wait for the producers
to come in and sell them their agricultural surpluses. Some of the
managers of the "Zurneni khrani?' State Combine, such as S. Egikyan
in Tervel, Zhelyazkov in Tolbukhin, Velichkov in General Toshevo,
Ma.chev in Provadiya, and others, do not believe that the play can be
fulfilled, and therefore the results are unsatisfactory. Up to 19 De-
cember the plan had been fulfilled only 12 percent in Provadiya.
The unsatisfactory fulf illnen t of the plan in certain local-
ities is due also to the fact that the employees of the "Zurneni
khrani" Combine and also the employees of the general cooperatives
resort to the purchase'of the fund grains of the farm workers" coop-
eratives, which is much easier, instead of making an effort to purchase
the, agricultural surpluses of the members of farm workers" cooperati~res
and ,of the individual farmers..:. An inspection made in Vratsa Okrug
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revealed that in 18 villages the grain purchased by the general coop-
eratives came exclusively from the Farm workers' cooperatives and
that not a single kilogram of gain had been bought from individual
fanners.
The decree of .the Council of Ministers to improve cooperative
trade in the villages and the purchase of the agricultural surpluses
requires the Central Cooperative Federation, the Rayon Cooperative
Federations, and the general cooperatives to make a radical improve-
ment in the work of purchasing of agricultural surpluses at the proper
time and to carry out an extensive campaign of explanation and thus
assure the cooperation of their members and the producers; they must
also see that their purchasing organization is composed of energetic
and. honest employees and purchasing agents.
This decree must be implemented, and the purchasing activity
must be improved immediately. The Central Cooperative Federation,
the Main Office of the "Zurneni khrani" Combine, and the authorized
representatives of the Ministry of Supply and of the Food Industry
must provide constant and efficient management and supervision over
the fulfillment of the plan. The fulfillment of the plan for the
purchase of agricultural surpluses is an important state and politi-
cal objective, which the People's Soviets of workers' deputies, the
Fatherland Front organizations, and the other politican and mass or-
ganizations,must strive to achieve. It must be borne in mind that with
the purchase of agricultural surpluses -- wheat, rare, barley, oats,
vetch, beans, corn, sunflower, etc, the economic reserves needed for
the fulfillment of the national economic plan will be increased,
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more raw materials will be assured. for the Bulgarian.' s industry;
the supplying of the population will be assured. All this is of
vital importance in increasing the prosperity and strengthen; n ~ tI e
might of the gauntry .x1 the stru.gg1o ;cork peace and Socialism.
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