English Translation

±8 - 3 - The land use survey has been carried out on time and the first result, which covers the main crops, has already been announced to the food security services. According to the existing control surveys, which were also organized under the direction of W.= Sonderkommando, the control errors are even smaller than in the previous year. The results must therefore be regarded as quite reliable. The cultivation plan for cereals is if the areas to be counted on bread cereals such as grass seed cultivation, elite breeding of summer cereals etc. In the case of summer cereals, a cultivation plan was not established. Summer cereals production has decreased considerably, summer barley even by l/5, but this decrease is expected to have been offset by an increase in crop fodder production. With regard to the peaceable extent of cattle farming, this shift from summer cereals to field fodder production is to be welcomed. The cultivation plan for sugar beet has been fully fulfilled. Sugar beet construction has increased noticeably against the previous year, namely by 7 %. However, it must be taken into account that it has continuously decreased in the last years. With regard to the versatile use of sugar beet (food and feed), this increase is to be welcomed against the previous year. In potato production, the cultivation of 354 O00 ha was originally planned. In view of the strained supply of potatoes (potato crop l943), however, in order to save planting material, the cultivation plan had to be set at 32o ooo ha with the instruction to the agricultural operators to build oil fruits as compensation. In fact, according to the preliminary results of the land use survey of potato production, only around 300 000 ha are to be estimated, i.e. 4.5 % less than in the previous year. The cultivation plan for potatoes was therefore not fulfilled, since it appears that the authorization to grow olives in the event of further reduction in potato production has not been fully used, since olives were cultivated according to the provisional result of 122. O0o ha. However, taking into account the compensatory area for potatoes, 136 000 ha should have been cultivated. However, it is quite likely that this advantage could not be fulfilled practically at all, because agriculture in favour of Wehrmacht objects, among other things, also in the host country.