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This Joint Committee Print, dated December 8, 1982, gathers studies that the Central Intelligence Agency's Directorate of Intelligence prepared for the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress. It gives estimates of Soviet gross national product for 1950 to 1980, with indexes of industrial production, agricultural production and consumption, and explains the methods and data behind them. The foreword says official Soviet statistics inflate growth and that the CIA measures offer a more accurate picture. The document contains no UFO material.
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Gross potato production includes without differenti- Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421 Table 1 ation the so-called “standard” quality output and the inferior, nonstandard production grade. To measure net output of grain and potatoes, gross output is reduced by quantities used for seed and, in the case of - grain, by waste. No waste is deducted from gross output of potatoes because data are lacking. (Our Number of Components Category USSR: Value of Agricultural Output, 1970 *1 Million Percent Rubles _____n_WW7*7 estimates of seed are discussed below in sections IV Grain 10 and VI.) Vegetables and Fruits. Production of vegetables and fruit accounted for almost one-fifth of net crop output in 1970 with the value of output evenly split. Until the late 1960s, however, vegetables predominated. Fruit production has continued to gain and exceeded annual average vegetable production in 1975-79. The struc- ture of production in 1970 is shown below. 13657.2 35.5 _. Potatoes 9286.6 "243 mi \l Vegetables 3460.0 9.0 la) Oil crops 1303.6 3.4 777 4-» vi >_- Fruits, berries, nu 3296.6 0.6 I I ._. Sugarbeets 1856.0 4.8 ,-Cotton 3s23.9 ______9.9 ,_- Tobacco 475.6 1.2 WWZKF Makhorka F ._. "-5 €¥:§§.!-_:“:i..'. Fiber flax ” ._. 1068.9 2.8 Million Rubles Percent Tea >- 256.3 V 0.7 Cm “"1 Fruit 3296.6 43-3 Net crop output “I Beets 128.3 30502.2 100.0 T161 I 1.9 Cabbage _ 711.4 10.6 Meat U! 28797.7“ 51.5 K Milk ._. 16271.1’ 29.1’ ZZZZZF Carrots _ 198.0 2.9 Eggs ._- 4074.0 7.3 I Cucumbers 485.7 7.2 Wool ,_- 1947.9 3.5 “M W Onions 866.4 12.8 Honey ,_- 336.0 m0.—6 VM_MA~—V Tomatoes 933.7 13.8 Silk cocoons ._. 171.9 0.3 FM _Other vegetables 136.5 2.0 Total 6756.6 Livestock 8 1009 inventory change 4366.8 7.8 “Mm Gross livestock output 55965.3 100.0 “"11” Official Soviet statistics on vegetable production — published only as a total—include vegetables raised in “open beds” (field grown), and in hothouses and heated beds. Field-grown vegetables are by far the largest category of production.“ Vegetables in our Less: feed hatching eggs 10724.6 185.4 __ fiifv Net livestock output Net agricultural sample include carrots, beets, onions, cabbage, cu- °"'l"" cumbers, and tomatoes. Vegetables not listed sepa- rately in the CIA index but included in other vegeta- 45055.3 53.9 03557.4 "P1100207 bles (parsley, mushrooms, squash, turnips, radishes, lettuce, spinach, dill, and so on) accounted for only 2 percent of the value of vegetable output in 1970. Fruit ‘ Melons are often grouped with vegetables in Soviet statistics. However, melons are not included in official vegetable output statistics, although they are included in official acreage reports and in vegetable consumption statistics. Insufficient data are available on production to include melons in the index. = In 1970 average realized prices. A more detailed version of this table covering the years 1950-79 can be found in appendix A. output includes grapes, berries, and other fruit (ap- ples, pears, quinces, cherries, plums, apricots, peaches, and citrus fruit). Fruit is a single entry in the CIA index because insufficient data exist to derive annual estimates of individual types. Like grain and potatoes, gross output of vegetables and fruits should be re- duced for waste to convert total output to a net basis. Lack of a consistent time series of required deductions prevent this adjustment, although waste is no doubt considerable. 255 Approved for Release: 2019/07/19 C05210421
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 399 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.