The Hard Work of Collective Farmers in the Kyrgyz SSR in 1942
Many female field workers have gained fame in the struggle for high yields of technical crops.
In the Kyzyl-Asker collective farm of the Sokuluk district, the team led by K. Shopokova, the wife of the hero of Panfilov, Duyshenkul Shopokov, harvested 684 centners of beets per hectare in 1942, instead of the planned 210 centners, and on her personally assigned plot, the leading beet grower collected 700 centners of this valuable technical crop.
In the Kairma collective farm of the Chui district, the team of Dzholdoshbaeva achieved 565 centners of sugar beets per hectare instead of the planned 360 centners and was the first in the district to complete the delivery of this crop. For successfully fulfilling the plan, the team was awarded the transitional Red Banner of the Chui Regional Committee of the Party and the district executive committee.
The collective farm named after Narimanov in the Osh region achieved outstanding results, collecting 23.3 centners of cotton per hectare in 1942 across the entire area, with a plan of 18.5 centners. The team leader of the Stalin collective farm in the Suzak district of the Jalal-Abad region, Inakhan Ismailova, achieved 79.5 centners of cotton per hectare with a planned average yield of 35 centners per hectare.
Due to a sharp decrease in draft power, the transportation of technical and vegetable crops, especially sugar beets, was delayed.
To prevent losses, it was decided to use available transport resources more productively, ensuring maximum loading of each vehicle and expedited, uninterrupted transportation. Many collective farmers demonstrated examples of selfless labor.
For instance, the cart driver from the Kyzyl-Asker collective farm in the Voroshilov district of the Frunze region, Komsomol member Nikolai Makhinya, with three horses at his disposal, made 7 trips in one day, transporting 86 centners of beets with a norm of 36 centners. Thus, he completed his daily task at 239%. By alternating horses, he spent 2 hours and 15 minutes on each trip instead of the allotted 3 hours. Following Makhinya's example, collective farmer Stepan Skalozub from the same brigade completed his transportation norm at 200%. The experience of advanced cart drivers found followers in 34 collective farms in the Frunze region.
However, it should be noted that the war years were marked by poor harvests, especially of technical crops. In peacetime, the average yield per hectare delivered to procurement points was: in 1940 — 401.2 centners of beets, in 1941 — 323 centners, while in 1942 the yield dropped to 149.3 centners per hectare, and only 3,734.6 thousand centners were delivered to procurement points. The yield of cotton also decreased: in 1942, the total harvest amounted to 690.8 thousand centners compared to 974.3 thousand in 1940.
"Working on the Front" — All-Union Socialist Competition in 1942 in the Kyrgyz SSR
