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...combines stood idle as farmers watched the crop sink into the mud. The forecast is bleak this summer in the kolkhozy (collective farms) and sovkhozy (state farms) of the Soviet grain belt, where capricious weather has caused a third consecutive bad harvest-with an anticipated shortfall of 51 million metric tons in Soviet grain production...
...past that the distribution of DOA news bulletins in Washington this summer regularly attracted Soviet journalists. According to U.S. specialists who have analyzed satellite photos of Soviet farm land and who have also visited rural areas, the 1981 grain yield will amount to less than 185 million metric tons-21.6% below the target of 236 million in the current Soviet five-year plan. Grain production will be up imperceptibly from 179.2 million tons in 1979, and down marginally from 189.2 million last year...
...demonstrations over food shortages that shook Nikita Khrushchev in 1962, when Russian workers painted USE KHRUSHCHEV FOR SAUSAGE MEAT on factory walls. To avoid reducing supplies to minimal levels, the Soviet leaders are expected to spend precious dollars and other hard currency on importing about 40 million metric tons of grain this year...
...President Ronald Reagan's lifting of the partial embargo on grain sales to the U.S.S.R. last April, the Soviet shortfall will be no windfall for U.S. farmers. Angry at Washington for having imposed the sales ban after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Moscow has bought only 1.5 million metric tons of the 6 million tons that the U.S. offered last June. Instead, the Soviets have contracted to purchase 47.5 million tons over the next five years from Argentina* and Canada...
...taking steps to stock Poland's larder. Last week the Reagan Administration announced plans to grant Warsaw $55 million in long-term credits to buy and transport 350,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Poland to help save the country's threatened poultry industry. The Administration also authorized the Catholic Relief Services agency to buy surplus American agricultural products at low prices for shipment to Poland. Reflecting just how critical its food shortage has become, Poland has attracted the concern of CARE, the New York City-based charity that first gained international recognition in 1946 by sending...