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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON d China Said Passing on od Shortage to Allies Washington - iliPU - Red China, the hungriest of Com munist nations, seems to be passing on some of its short ages to the rest of the Soviet bloc, v stern analysts said today. There are indications that Russia's recent 25 to 30 per cem increase in meat and butter prices may have result ed partly from a halt in Red Chinese meat shipments to the Soviet Union. In recent years Communist China has supplied an esti mated 5 per cent of' Russia's meat. j Major Upheaval ' But since 1960, presumably in part because of the ideol ogical rift between the two Red giants, there has been a major upheaval in Soviet Chinese trade. In 1959 this trade totaled $21 billion. In 1960 it drop ped to SI. 6 billion and in 1961 to S918 million. There apparently has been a simi lar drop in Chinese trade with East Germany and other European satellites. This has caused a commer cial crisis in the Communist world which cuts both ways. It undoubtedly has contri buted to food shortages in eastern Europe. It also means that Russia and eastern Eu-1 rope are deprived of an out let for manufactured machin ery. I Mew Study j The almost world-wide1 Communist failure in food j production and th. interrelat- ed effects throughout the ( neu uiuc nave come unaer new study recently in Wash ington. It also was apparently a major subject of last week's Moscow meeting of Commun ist parly leaders under the Communist Council for Econ omic Mutual Assistance. ! The Soviet Union, with a population 20 per cent larger than thi.t of the Unit ed Slates and six times more farm labor, has never been able to produce more than 60 per cent of the U.S. agricul tural output. Experts have given several probable reas ons: Climate. Most of Rus sia's agricultural land lies farther north tl. n Minnesota, and much of it is dry. Organization. Soviet ag riculture is a hodge-podge of 40,000 collective farms, the oretically owned by their workers; 8.000 "state farms" in which the workers are more like factory employees, and 16 million small indivi dual plots. The collective farms are considered by U S. experts to be unmanagably large, covering on the aver age 15.000 acres. The state farms are even larger, 20, 000 acres . v Policy. Russia has de liberately put a vast amount of its cap tal into industry rather than agriculture. Methods. Soviet farms use only one-thir . as much fertilizer as U.S. farms. Ad vanced crop dusting is even less prevalent. Prices have not always ..n ouraged the small farmers to increase their crops. In .ome cases, they have been asked to sell at a loss. In eastern Europr. reports last week continued to indi cate food problems. Called for Steps In East Germany, the Com munist party newspaper Neussdeutchland called for steps to correct meat and milk shortages. In Bucharest, housewives were lining up to buy the on ly available meat - cows heads and tongues, chopped horsemcat and horse brains. In Prague, students dem onstrated against meat short ages. In Poland, panic buying was reported immediately af ter Russia's meat and butler price increases. Could Ba Crucial In Red China, per capita food output is estimated to be lower than in 1950, with the average diet below 2,000 calories a day. The minimum diet for a day's work in Asia is estimated at 2.300 calorics. China has had three bad WEDNESDAY. JUNE 13. I9E2 crop years in i row. It may be that this year could be crucial for the Peiping re gime. Farm programs in Com munist North Korea and North Viet Nam also are re ported to be in trouble. By contrast, Japan and Na tionalist China on Formosa have greatly increased agri cultural production. In Cuba, food production is estimated to have dropped 15 per cent in the last two years. Rationing was started this year. 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