History of the food industry USSR.

On the basis of the distribution of produced products on the group "A" (production of means of production) and "B" (production of consumer goods) the overwhelming part of the production of the food industry belongs to the second division. However, between branches of the food-processing industry there are considerable industrial communications expressed in that a part of raw materials is exposed to primary processing and goes not on direct consumption, and on the further industrial processing. This...

In design bureaus of research institutes the newest types of equipment, designs of the automated and mechanized flow lines and other kinds of technical equipment are developed. Specialists-food specialists with higher education - technologists, mechanics, and economists - prepare special high schools of food industry: in Moscow - technological institute of food industry, All-Union Correspondence Institute of food industry and technological institute of meat and dairy industry; technological institutes...

In the course of concentration steady increase in capacity and production on the average on one enterprise in all branches of the food-processing industry. So, for years of a seven-year-old (1959-1965) daily productivity of one sugar factory has increased from 12,5 to 18,6 thousand cents of a beet a day. The total capacity of butter factories (milk processing) per one enterprise increased from 18.1 to 29.2 tons per shift. The productivity of cheese factories for the same period has increased from 450 to 630 kg of cheese per shift, and meat processing plants - from 21...

Starting at an extremely low level compared to the pre-war level, all critical food industries, having met and exceeded the targets of the first post-war five-year plan, significantly surpassed the pre-war level of 1940 in the most important food products in 1950. The continuous process of social and technical reconstruction of a national economy of the USSR unrecognizably changes shape of the country. The specific weight of the city population has risen from 33% in 1940 up to 53% on January 1, 1965...

The war imposed on our country by Nazi Germany interrupted the creative work of the Soviet people and demanded a radical restructuring of the national economy. Food companies together with other industries subordinated their work to the interests of the front and rear. It was carried out in the environment of huge difficulties caused by war. In a zone of time occupation and military actions appeared more than half of all quantity of the food enterprises, including 199 sugar, 294 alcoholics, 99 oil-fatty, 42 soap-making factories, 15 tobacco factories, and many other things...