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grown. On hilly land only potatoes and beans can be grown. One
mou of river land growing vegetables can supply five people for a
whole year, that is 0.2 mou per person. However, 1.5 mou of hill
land is required to supply one person for one year. Furthermore, so
long as a man specializing in growing vegetables has additional help
when spreading manure, he can farm 6 mou of river land. This means
that one man specializing in growing vegetables together with some
supplementary labour can supply a year’s vegetables for thirty
people. The daily vegetable requirement per head is 12 liang and
the annual requirement is 300 jin. For thirty people the annual requirement
is 9,000 jin. At December 1942 Yanan market prices of 3
yuan per jin, the total value of this is 27,000 yuan. Allowing 6,000
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yuan for the man specializing in growing vegetables there is a sur-
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plus of 21,000 yuan. Taking the necessary incentive payments into
account, the least return is 20,000 yuan. Therefore, in the future
after each official organization and school has carried out a thorough
drive for better troops and simplified administration, it should
pay attention to arranging river land for growing vegetables, to assigning
personnel for the work, to providing supplementary labour
and to ensuring self-sufficiency in vegetables for more than half a
year and even for a whole year.
Apart from grain and vegetables, raising pigs and sheep for meat
is also an important part NOT of agriculture. FOR
Some people consider that raising pigs wastes grain. However,
our experience proves that raising pigs does not waste grain and,
instead, not raising COMMERCIAL
them does. First of all, without pigs leftovers
have to be thrown away, and there are quite a lot of leftovers in
large official organizations and companies. Secondly, if little meat
is eaten, then greater quantities of other food is consumed; and if a
lot of meat is eaten, DISTRIBUTION
then less other food is consumed. Thus, raising
pigs to increase meat supplies is not only necessary to maintain
health but is also economically rational. The various official organizations
and schools have developed many ways of raising pigs.
For example, the Central Party School directed the pig slaughterhouse
to send someone to the kitchen daily to collect the water in
which the grain was washed and the vegetable waste to feed the pigs.
The Central General Affairs Section [Zhongyang Zongwuchu] directed
someone to collect as pig-food the waste left after husking
the grain and also the leaves and roots left over in the vegetable
plots when the vegetables were harvested. According to the Rear