0 ------ -- --- - 0 Approved for Release 2020 01 23 C06232635 I THE COMMUNIST BLOC Record Soviet Harvest Soviet agricultural production in 1958 has set a new record The volume of· grain production is apparently about the same as in 1956--the best previousyearr -but the amount of grain procured by the state is about 6 percent greater this year than in 1956 · partly as a result of lower harvest and postharvest losses Khrushchev will again pe able to point with pride to the harvest obtained from his virgin-lands program Production of other crops has ranged from good to record for -sugar beets oil seeds and fodder · According to Mikoyan s remarks in his anniversary address on 6 November total Soviet milk output in 1958 will equal US milk production The record amount of roughage and silage stored for livestock promises sizable gains for the output of livestock products next year bringing the USSR a little closer to Khrushchev's still distant goal of catching up with the United States in per capita production I CONPtDENTIAL 10 Nov 58 CFNTRAI INTFI I lr FNl 'F RI 111 F TI Approved for Release 2020 01 23 C06232635 Page 1