STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1983, sig. 109-6/75

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brv - 7 3.) The seed variety confusion is so great that it is already clear for this reason that the farmer is afraid to use new, good seed in order - if he does - to expect faults because he does not understand how to treat the new seed. 4 The livestock population and its output is totally inadequate. Thus only 13 cows were found on a farm of 8o ha reported by the Czechs as exemplary. Up to now, it had not even become known to the mentioned Czech farmer that he had to have more cows and could also have. 5 The local Hanak peasant strike is willing and can do more, but it lacks the guidance and constant suggestion which he did not receive from the Czech side bisler. Good role models, which could lead him forward, were not allowed to do so by the Czechs as a result of the small party and group quarrels. a review of the sample farmers requested by the Olomouc Land District Authority on behalf of the Ministry of Agriculture that 4 out of 5 proposed farmers were totally unsuitable, while the best farmer was not mentioned. 6 The advice and thus also the national funding via the Czech National Culture Council does not seem successful, yes, sometimes even wrong. As a result, for some time now, I have been tackling the takeover of the German leadership in the expansion of the agricultural industries and the production battle in rural and permanent work also for the Czech agricultural sector. As far as possible, German farmers have been involved in this. I have already issued the first preliminary instructions to the district governors, after I have given my basic opinion.