Agricultural technicians from all parts of the Soviet Union are asked by the Comzet (Government Commission for Jewish Settlement) to attend a Conference opening in Moscow on February 3rd. with a view to determining the policies and programmes connected with an intensified Jewish colonisation campaign.
Colonisation has hitherto been planned on an individualistic basis. Beginning with this spring, Jewish farming will be directed as near as possible into collectivist channels, Barns for horses and dairies for cows are to be built on a group rather than on a single basis, on similar lines to the large farms in the West of the United States.
The type of houses provided for the workers is also to be changed, though the new form has not yet been decide on.
The new Jewish colonies in Bureya and in the Crimea are to be provided with irrigation and projects to this end are now being drawn up.
It is further announced that certain trades like winemaking and fruit-canning and preserving will be developed to enable the Jewish farmers to dispose of their products.
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