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1973 A RECORD YEAR

More investment to
be made in agriculture

By GLEB SPIRIDONOV

Political Observer, APN
OSCOW — Not so long ago
iste or, Observers and _ special-
a Maintained that nature
+ Beaueed irreparable damage
that se agriculture. It was said
ove would hardly be able to
ie fe in the.next few years,
ere 5 Culties aroused by the
KE Sa Tought of 1972 and that
viet Union would have to

buy constantly grain in the USA
and other capitalist countries.
But already the same observers
have to put the question in a
different way: “Won't the
Soviet Union agree to sell to the
United States a part of wheat
it had bought, in case the Ame-
ricans will be’ short before the
new harvest?”

Replying to this question put
by the U.S. News and World Re-

Behind events in Ethiopia

a atticle in the Soviet Gov-
ors Pit newspaper, Izvestia, by
behing Halskin, offers a glimpse
Ports € often confusing re-
Situati €aching Canada about the
Pil 10n in Ethiopia.
uatskin Says that the grow-
Absa’ Movement in Addis
: pend other cities of Ethio-
dedi ade clear the need for
‘and Tatization of° social life
nomic ¢ Potion of socio-eco-
mit ag orms which would ‘per-
bur he entry to cast off the
Ness. « CCONOMic backward-

Ty

histor, th
tote the f Ethiopia, in which
Part __“" 100,000 people took

fen dint. came an important

to m i the country’s turn
of a new times, to the creation
Significan 2! atmosphere. The
Clear yarce Of this is especially
the fact trajon’, bears in mind
tific g.that, owing to the spe-
atures of Ethiopia’s
development, ‘the im-
S Would Tir oe lonialist for-
rover prc, 0 isolate, and,
nye .» ‘bottle up’ that coun-
‘Atiother
foPments :
Tawn

Odern

€ason why the de-
In Ethiopia have
Pilyatskin ,

attention”

says, “is that (it is) the oldest
independent state on the Afri-
can continent, which enjoys de-
served respect on the interna-
tional scene. and which is
contributing to the strengthen-
ing of the Organization of Afri-
can Unity.

“All the real friends of the
Ethiopian people wish them suc-
cess is overcoming their present
difficulties. At’ the ‘same time,
one canngt but draw attention
to the fact that the imperialist
forces would like to take advan-
tage of these difficulties to ag-
gravate the situation in that part
of Africa and to fan animosity
among the African countries.
Such a turn can only be profit-
able to the imperialists and neo-
colonialists.

SOVIET RED CROSS

AIDS ETHIOPIA
MOSCOW—Food, medicines,
fabrics, blankets and pesticides
are being despatched to :Ethio-
pia’s Red Cross Society by the
Soviet Red Cross and Red Cres-
cent ‘Societies in conformity
with “the humanitarian prin-
ciples of the Red Cross and in-
ternational solidarity,” it was

reported here March 13.

port, Nikolai Patolichev, the
USSR Minister:of Foreign Trade
stated: “The Americans side has
already asked us to put off its
commitments for grain delive-
ries until after June when the
harvesting starts in your coun-
try and we gave our consent to
this.”

Record Harvests

The results of the last two
years have clearly shown that
socialist agriculture being based
on the most progressive social
system — large collective and
state farms — has stood with
honor the difficult examination
given by nature. In the last year,
which was not the best one for
weather conditions, a record
harvest of grain — 222.5 million
tons, a record harvest of cotton
— 7.6 million tons and a bum-
per harvest of other crops was
taken in, Underlying this suc-
cess is the consistent implemen-
tation of the agrarian policy of
the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union, and the complex
and long-term program of inten-
sification of the entire agricul-
tural production which the Party
has offered to the Soviet people
and .is successfully implement-
ing.

Speaking at the gala meeting
of virgin land farmers dedicated
to the 20th anniversary of the
development of the virgin lands,
Leonid Brezhnev, General Sec-
retary of the CPSU Central
Committee, touched upon the
main trends in the present Party
policy determining the develop-
ment of Soviet agriculture over
the next few years as well as in
a longer perspective. This is,
first of all, the creation and im-
provement of such a system of
economic relations and such
conditions as would ensure the
material incentive to farmers in

Wo
Wome 1g Presentatives of the
Crate x International Demo-
the 254 fration, who attended
Nations Session of the United
Status f Ommission on thé

View, Omen, were inter-
ano fon % Madelaine Provin-
Yor Orld Magazine, New

Preside. (WO the Freda Brown
tralian Of the Union of ae:
dent of en and _vice-presi-
ting Tit © WIDF; and Valen-
Womens from the Soviet
Secreta, COMmittee, who is
i; thy Of the WIDF.
Westigng course of answering
She oo,.7,alentina Titova said

reports to its affiliates on the

January women’s delegation “to

Chile to investigate conditions
of- women and children under
the bloody Chilean junta, and on

the’ women’s delegation that
visited various Arab countries.”

Going to Geneva
Freda Brown said that the

WIDF is “very enthusiastic”
about _Internaional
Year 1975. “It was initiated,”
she pointed out by the WIDF
and introduced and adopted two
years ago, at the 24th session
of the Commission on the Status |
of Women. There will be many
regional, national and interna-

Women’s

i : ‘ are
ec; ficant discussions at tional activities and celebra-

Sl
iret Rima’ that one of the
ees S:
in rp ONS dealt with “women

a z
the Worl nd agricultural areas of

tions, as well as seminars, to

Xploj rea
*Ploiteg mong the most
tion Of the world’
On, opula-
whan sgt 60% of the nhs
" the “4 illion illiterate people
inte said are women . . .”
le siti the WIDF had a flex-
itio ont On the World Popu-
wcharese ference, to be held in
Ord po, 2 August as part of
On Year 1974, S}

a » one
Pulatign ;cmPts to regulate po-
- Socig, “OWth without regard

Tt Would eels develop-

Wi Succeed.’’

DF also Plans to send

| affairs. They comprise nearly

Over 3 million Soviet wo-
men are members of the Com-
munist Party and more ‘than
17 million are members of the
Young Communist League.
Women play an_ increasing
part in- the democratic ad-
ministration of the country's

one-third of the deputies (463)
to the USSR Supreme Soviet.
Among the deputies to local
Soviets, 47.4°%o, . numbering

over one million, are women.

mark its significance.”

She said that women at the
World Congress of Peace Forces
in Moscow, Yast October had
discussed holding a World Con-
gress of Women to coincide
with International Women’s
Year. “Also discussed was the
question of disarmament, be-
cause for women, peace has the
highest priority. Without peace
there is no need for organizing
on women’s issues. We must
work first for world peace.

. “While here in: the United
States,” Freda Brown said, “we
met with representatives of the
Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom, and
Women Strike for Peace, to dis-
cuss plans for joint action at
Geneva, Switzerland, on March
24,

“The meeting will take place
in conjunction with the UN Con-
ference of the Committee on
Disarmament, which will take
place in that city at the time —-
one of many meetings to be held
this year to raise the question
of disarmament. At that time,
therefore, women from many of
the 26 countries represented on
this UN body will raise sharply
the importance of disarmament.

The switch-over of Soviet farming to the industrial basis calls for
the further improvement of relations of production and of socializa-
tion and division of labor. In some regions of the country agro-
industrial enterprises are being set up which incorporate state enter-
prises along with collective and state farms.

raising production and in the
further economic strengthening
of collective and state farms.

Bonus Prices

In 1965, guided by the Lenin-
ist thesis on the necessity of
combining the social and per-
sonal interests of workers, the
CPSU Central Committee and the
Soviet government passed a de-
cision on the change-over to
stable plans of state purchases
of farm products for a number
of years. At the same time, the
procurement prices on wheat,
rye and other cereals and tech-
nical crops were raised consider-
ably. With a view to encourag-
ing sales by. collective and state
farms of products above the
fixed procurement plan, prices
paid on deliveries beyond the
plan were set much higher. The
experience of the past years has
fully confirmed the effectiveness
of these economic levers. The
labor of agricultural workers
has become more _ productive.
Their wages have increased and
the farm economy has strength-
ened.

The utmost intensification of
production, the switch-over of
agriculture to a modern indus-
trial basis and the maximum
acceleration of scientific and
technological: progress in this
branch of the economy ‘repres-
ent an important line of the
agrarian policy of the Commun-
ist Party of the Soviet Union.
The Party has worked out and
is successfully implementing a
big program of comprehensive
mechanization of farming, the
use of chemicals and of large-
scale land-reclamation.

The collective and state farms
have now a big fleet of ma-
chines. In over three years: of
the current five-year period
Soviet farms received 962,000
tractors, over 280,000 grain har-
vesters, 581,000 trucks and spe-
cialized vehicles and many other
technical facilities. Over 162
million tons of mineral fertiliz-
ers have been brought to the
fields. A vast program of irriga-
tion and land-reclamation has
been implemented. On this basis
large zones of guaranteed grain

commodity production are being
organized.
Livestock-breeding

Recent years have seen great
changes in the development of
livestock-breeding too. The gra-
dual switchover- of this branch
to an industrial basis is taking
place. The construction of me-
chanized livestock units is under
way on a large scale at collec-
tive and state farms. Big state-
farm, collective-farm and inter-
collective farm complexes pro-
ducing farm products on an in-
dustrial basis together with
poultry plants are being built
near cities. At present, the
USSR has over 3,000 such com-
plexes and about 1;000 poultry
plants...

Leonid Brezhnev stressed that
the Soviet state will continue to
make considerable investments
in agriculture. However, today
the. problem of more effective
use of these investments on the
basis of scientific and technolo-
gical advance is coming to the
fore. The industry and design
Officers are creating a new gen-
eration of specialized integrated
machines and mechanisms for
farms.

Modern Technology

The switch-over of Soviet
farming to the industrial basis
calls for the further improve-
ment of relations of production
and of socialization and division
of labor. This has determined
another aspect of the agrarian
policy of the CPSU — improved
organization of production and
agricultural management. It is
necessary to further specialize
and concentrate production and
to deepen: inter-farm - coopera-
tion thus permitting the use of
advantages of modern science
and technology. In some regions
of the country enterprises are
being set up which may be call-
ed agro-industrial complexes —
associations which incorporate
state enterprises along with col-
lective and state farms. This
leads to important consequences
in the development of socialist
society. The state and collective-
farm and cooperative forms of
Ownership are being brought
closer to each other.

in Toronto April 12-14.

WILLIAM KASHTAN ON
TOUR OF WESTERN CANADA

Communist Party leader, William Kashtan started the first
leg of a two-week tour of Western Canada with a public
meeting at Thunder Bay, March 21. The Communist leader
is touring the West speaking on the Party's proposals on
how Canada can best meet its energy needs for the fore-
seeable future and the Communist plan to curb the profit-
eers and the inflationary spiral. :

During the course of his tour, Mr. Kashtan will visit Win-
nipeg, Regina, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary. In addi-
tion to addressing public meetings and giving press con-
ferences the Party's leader will participate in Communist
Party provincial conventions to elect delegates-to the 22nd
Convention of the Communist Party of Canada to be held

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