“COUNTING CHICKENS”
SOVIET AS A GRAIN MERCHANT,
WHEAT SURPLUS ESTIMATED,
SEED NOT SOWN.
(Times Cable.) (Received 8.37 a.m.) LONDON, May 21
“Again counting its chickens before they wore hatched, the Soviet formulated a gigantic scheme to export grain, ”'says the Riga correspondent of the “Times,”
The Grain Commission decided that the exports for 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. The exportable surplus will be the proceeds of great State farms in southern and eastern Russia, viz., 1250 farming units, each of from 7,000 to 10,000 acres, being allotted as a beginning. The 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 the ploughs are coming, but as a start, 30 wheat growing specialists will proceed to North America, in June, to study'United States and Canadian methods.
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Northern Advocate, 23 May 1928, Page 6
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