SOVIET OPTIMISM.
SCHEME FOR GRAIN EXPORT. (Received May 22nd, 9.15 p.m.) LONDON, May 21. "Again counting tHeir chickens before they are hatched, the Soviet formulated a gigantic scheme to export grain," says "The Times" Riga correspondent. "The grain commissariat has decided that exports in 1932 shall be 850,000 tons, but considering that provision should be made for a margin of safety, decided to make the figure 800,000 tons exportable. The surplus will be the proceeds of great State farms in Southern and Eastern Russia. One thousand two hundred and fifty farming units, each of 7000 to 10,000 acres, will be allotted as a beginning. These estates will be State-managed in- order to prevent 'peasant sabotage of the grain crop!' . *. . ''Meanwhile the soil remains in a virgin state. Nobody knows whence ploughs are coming but as a start SO wheat-growing specialists will proceed to North America in June to study United States and Canadian methods," —"The Times" Cables.
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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19317, 23 May 1928, Page 9
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