Government Decree establishing the Commission for the Control and Registration of the Grown Grain Yield (No. 350 of 1996)

GOVERNMENT DECREE Bishkek, House of the Government August 1, 1996, # 350 On Setting up Control and Registration of the Grown Grain Yield In order to set up registration and control of the grain yield grown in 1996, the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic decrees: 1. To approve the attached Procedures for setting up control and registration of the grown grain yield. 2. Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic is to establish a Republican Commission in order to set up control and registration of the grown grain yield and to ensure reliable statistical record. Membership of the Commission will consist of specialists and staff from the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyz Agrarian Academy, National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic, State Inspectorate on Standards and Metrology under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic. 3. Heads of the oblast and rayon state administrations are to provide all assistance to representatives of the Republican Commission in performing their work, primarily providing transport and necessary materials and documents. 4. Control over the implementation of the present decree is to be put on B.T.Talgarbekov, Vice-Prime-Minister of the Kyrgyz Republic. Prime-Minister A.Djumagulov Approved by the Decree of the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic of August 1, 1996, # 350 PROCEDURES for setting up control and registration of the grown grain yield 1. These procedures were developed in order to carry out full control and registration of the grain yield grown on the planting areas of farms irrespective of the form of ownership. To achieve this, Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Kyrgyz Republic is establishing a commission at the national level which will consist of staff from the Ministry of Finance of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Economy of the Kyrgyz Republic, Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, Kyrgyz Agrarian Academy, National Statistics Committee of the Kyrgyz Republic, State Inspectorate on Standards and Metrology under the Government of the Kyrgyz Republic, which will be sent down to oblasts in order to set up similar commissions at that level. Oblast commissions will establish the same commissions in rayons which will consist of local specialists and leaders of rural councils. Oblast and rayon commissions are appointed by the order or decree of the heads of the local state administrations and have personal responsibility for making actual estimates of the volumes of grown and harvested crop. 2. Members of the Republican Commission, sent to the oblasts, work until the completion of grain crop harvesting supplying daily information on its progress to the National Headquarters established by the Kyrgyz Republic Government Decree of July 10, 1996, # 318 «On measures for on-time grain harvesting and creation of grain stocks for 1996-1997 economic year». 3. A week before the start of grain harvesting the Rayon Commissions together with the Oblast Commission Representative should identify the sizes of planting areas and biological productivity of grain in all farms irrespective of their type of ownership and draw up appropriate statements. In small private, peasant, individual farms the Commission defines the biological grain productivity from each field taking into account possible losses. By the findings the statements are drawn up and signed by the Commission Members and a farm, which serves as a basis of registration of harvested grain for the statistical bodies. 4. The statements of research are drawn up in three copies, one copy is passed on to the Rayon Statistics Committee for summarising and including into statistical record, the second copy is for Rayon Agricultural Department, the third copy is kept by the farm. On the basis of research statements the Rayon Statistics Committee makes summarised report by the farm categories in the rayon and sends it to the Republican Commission. 5. The established Rayon Commissions are entitled to measure the amount of grain placed earlier in the storage facilities and collate findings with the actual record. In case of discrepancy, a statement is drawn up and changes are made to the statistical record on the basis of this statement. 6. The biological grain productivity is identified on the fields in the following way: • to measure a plot of land and identify its area; • to count a total number of stalks on one square metre along the diagonal of a land plot at, at least, five points and to define average number of stalks on one square metre. Then to select the biggest, average size and smallest ears, to separate grain from them, to weigh, to divide by three in order to define an average number of grains in an ear and to multiply by a number of stalks on one square metre. As a result, the grain yield in kilogram on one square metre is defined. Summing up five measurings and dividing the result by five, an average weight on one square metre is obtained. Multiplying it by 10 thousand, the yield from one hectare is defined. Further, multiplying the defined yield by the whole area, the total yield is obtained. 7. The Oblast and Rayon Commissions in collaboration with specialists from the territorial Kyrgyz Standard bodies carry out inspection of the status of the weighting entity which is involved in registration of grain and agricultural produce, and the findings are presented to the Republican Headquarters.