STATE SECRETARY FOR THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 2732, sig. 109-14/35

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-13- 32 3. Overview of the bread grain needs of the protectorate: Although the cereals mainly eligible for livestock feeding are scarce in the protection rate, a short overview of the cereals (mainly wheat and rye) is to be given below, which is not possible without a Reich grant for fodder cereals. The annual demand for bread grain is:1,172,400t. It is broken down into: (a) self-sufficiency (1,600,000 heads a 14 1/2 kg o d od = 295,100 t. (b) normal consumption (6,000,000 head - i.e. at the current allocation narrow and flour percentages ) annually ....................... 686,100 tonnes and e) seed demand i.i. . . .. 157,000 tonnes. The four forecasts for the harvest of bread grain provided by the Central Statistical Office: 1. 1.Solution (28.7.41) ... = 938.532 t, 2. 11.Satuation (28.8.41) .. = 902.144 t, 3. I11.Estimation ( 28.10.41)...... = 823.651 t, () S =832.651 t The fourth grain forecast was not recognized by the relevant departments of the Reichsprotektor in Bohemia and Moravia because of apparent inaccuracy and tried to reduce the number of cereals in the region.