ed during the first four years of the five-year plan
significantly, although not entirely, reduced the need for grain
imports, which amounted to about 110,000 tons of wheat and 20,000 tons
of corn in 1963 and 1964.

Production of rice, cotton, and tobacco was reported to have lagged
through 1969, and the output of cotton actually declined in 1967 and
1968. This and other reported information about these crops indicate
that the possibility of attaining the 1970 target is precluded for rice
and is questionable for cotton. In the case of tobacco, however,
reported production in 1969 was already about 1,000 tons above the
five-year plan goal, in spite of the reported lag. As early as 1967 the
output of sugar beets approached the volume planned for 1970, but
subsequent developments regarding this crop have been cloaked in
official silence. According to officially reported data, the production
of vegetables in 1969 surpassed the 1970 target by some 60,000 tons, or
nearly 27 percent, yet no mention of this fact was contained in the
report on plan fulfillment for that year.

_Table 10. Production of Field Crops and Fruits in Albania, 1960 and
1965-70 (in thousands of metric tons)_

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Plan
1960 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970
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Grains 216.7 324.6 n.a. n.a. n.a. n.a. 659.0[*]
Breadgrains[**] (197.1) (296.6) (389.3) (445.0) (494.0) (533.4) (593.0)[+]
Potatoes 23.4 21.2 108.0 115.9 166.0 238.8 475.0
Rice 4.6 10.2 10.5 11.3 n.a. n.a. 24.0
Cotton 16.1 24.6 24.7 21.9 18.5 25.0 34.0
Tobacco 8.1 13.3 13.7 13.1 14.9 17.1 16.0
Sugar beets 72.7 90.2 132.9 138.5 n.a. n.a. 140.0
Vegetables 71.3 140.9 156.5 172.2 180.8 283.8 224.0
Fruits, deciduous 25.3 39.7 47.8 40.7 58.6 n.a. 69.5
Fruits, citrus 1.7 2.0 2.2 2.6 n.a. n.a. 5.6
Grapes 22.3 42.9 54.1 48.5 61.1 n.a. 94.4
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n.a.--not available
* Except for the data on fruits, all figures in thi