SOVIET DREAMS OF WHEAT
GIGANTIC SCHEME FOR EXPORT. STATE-MANAGED FARM VENTURE. By Telegraph—Press Aasn. —Copyright. Received May 22, 8.30 p.m. Timee cable. London, May 21. Again counting their chickens before they were 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 851,000 tons, but considering that provision should be made for a margin of safety, decided to make the figure 800,000 terra. The exportable surpl is will be the proceeds of great state farms in southern and eastern Russia. A total of 1250 farming units, each if 7000 to 10,000 acres, will be allotted as a beginning. The estates will be State-managed In order to prevent “peasant sabotage of grain cron.” Meanwhile, the soil remains in itr 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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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 9
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