RUSSIA LOOKS AHEAD.
WHEAT-GROWING POLICY. AIMING AT FUTURE EXPORT. (Received May 22, 9.25 p.m.) Times Cable. LONDON. May 21. Once more counting its chickens before they are hatched the' Soviet has formulated a gigantic scheme to export grain, says the Riga correspondent of the Times. The Commissar in charge of grain had decided that the exports in 1932 should be 850,000 tons, but considering that provision should be made for a margin of safety he has now decided to make the figure 800.000 tons. The exportable surplus will be the proceeds of great State farms in .Southern and Eastern Russia. A total of 1250 farming units, each of 7000 acres to 10,000 acres, will be allotted as a beginning. The estates will be managed by the State in order to prevent " peasant sabotage of the grain crops." Meanwhile the soil remains in its virgin state, says the correspondent, and nobody knows whence the ploughs are to come. However, as a start, 30 wheat-growing specialists will proceed to North America in June to study the methods employed ;n the United States and in Canada.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19953, 23 May 1928, Page 11
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