CROP LOSSES CAUSED BY SPRING FROST

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R013800220006-3
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 10, 2006
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: September 11, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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FORM NO
. 51-WIA
FEB 1952
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
SECRET/CONTROL - U.S. OFFICTALS.ONLY
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT
COUNTRY East. Germany
SUBJECT Crok Losses Caused by Spring Frost
DATE OF
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OF THE UNITED STATES, WITHIN THE MEANING OF TITLE 1B, SECTIONS 793
AND 794, OF THE U.S. CODE, AS AMENDED. ITS TRANSMISSION OR REVE-
LATION OF ITS CONTENTS TO OR RECEIPT BY AN UNAUTHORIZED PERSON IS
PROHIBITED BY LAW. THE REPRODUCTION Of:THIS FORM IS PROHIBITED.
Late Spring '11952
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1. Agriculture in East Germany has suffered considerably as a result of the
spring,frost. The fruit crop, including the apple crop was frozen. `here
are no early fruit,,early vegetables or early potatoes. The winter barley
was also damaged as a result of frost. It will have to be used for f0dc er.
2._ The farmers have no seed left for new cultivation to replace their loss.
The summer barley yield promioes to be very low. This extensive frost .damage
extends almost to Berlin. In areas where there is much water, such as: the
.area: around Luebben (N52/A28) and Luebbenau (N52/A27),are eppecially
hard hit. The damage caused by the frost on 20 May 1952 is very high.
The leaves of the deciduous trees have turned brown. The ashes have lost all
their leaves.
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