The Soviet land commissariat today decided to assign an additional hundred thousand hectares in Crimea for Jewish colonization, this being over and above the 109,000 hectares that the cabinet ordered assigned for the same purpose last week. The Agro-Joint will get the new territory provided that it brings 300 additional tractors from the United States this Summer in addition to 126 on which it had previously agreed.
The land commissariat also decided to exchange 20,000 hectares poor Jewish land in Crimea for better acreage.
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