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ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL PROBLEMS IN THE ANTI-JAPONESE WAR
saying “no vegetables is like half a year’s famine” is completely
true.
The method for producing vegetables in the past two years has
been to assign personnel specially for growing them and to assign
some supplementary labour from the official organizations and
schools. Each year we have on average been self-sufficient for three
to six months. According to the Rear Services statistics in 1941,
their various official organizations and schools planted 1,801 mou
of vegetables consisting of 1,030 mou of potatoes and 771 mou of
cabbage, beans, turnips and miscellaneous vegetables. In autumn,
autumn cabbage and autumn turnips were planted on the 771 mou.
Over the year 879,000 jin of vegetables were harvested, equal to
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one-third of annual consumption on average. According to the Cen-
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tral Administration Bureau statistics, in 1942 the various official
organizations and schools directly under central control assigned
forty personnel for growing vegetables and planted 388 mou of river
land and 1,941 mou of hill land. They harvested 745,000 jin of vegetables,
being self-sufficient for five months on average. The Central
Administration Bureau itself supplied nine months of its needs.
Yanan University and the Natural Sciences Institute both supplied
eight months of their needs, and the Central Research Institute and
the Chinese Writers Anti-Aggression Association [wen-Kang] both
supplied seven months NOT of their needs. FOR The circumstances for vegetable
production by the personnel in the various official organizations
are very varied. For example, in the Guanzhong sub-region
they can only plant COMMERCIAL
a little on account of the climate, and can only
achieve three months’ self-sufficiency on average. In the special
military area they can only reach two or three months’ self-sufficiency
because of the scarcity of land. In some areas such as Huachi,
Mudan and other DISTRIBUTION
counties they can achieve six months’ or more because
they have land and can farm in partnerships. Production of
vegetables for their own use by official organizations and schools
throughout the Border Region is estimated to be worth around 6
million yuan.
The problem here is to discern whether the method whereby the
official organizations and schools assign production personnel to
grow vegetables outside their permanent organizational structure is
ultimately worthwhile or not. The experience of the various offices
under central control shows that it is. The best land for growing
vegetables is river land, where all kinds of green vegetables can be
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