Zorluk Yılları

İkinci Dünya Savaşı, dönemi Alpullu'nun zorluk yıllarıdır. Savaş,  1 Ekim 1939'da Almanya'nın Polonya'yı işgal etmesiyle başlamıştı. 1940, 1941 yıllarından itibaren yokluklar, zorluklar peşi sıra gelmeye başlamıştı. Biz 40'lı yılların getirdiği zorlukların etkisini 60'lı yıllarda bile hissetmiştik. Yokulk ve zorluklar 20 yıl sonrasına kadar etkili olabiliyor. "Türkiye II. Dünya Savaşı’na katılmamasına rağmen, 1940-1945 yılları arasında savaş ekonomisi şartları içerisinde yaşamış" (Türkan Doğruöz, Esra Çavdar , "Trakyada Yeşilyurt Gazetesine Göre 1944 Yılında II. Dünya Savaşı ve Kırklareli, Tarih ve Gelecek Dergisi, Ağustos 2016, Cilt 2, Sayı 2).

Beginning of World War II caused production difficulties 39 for Alpullu
Sugar Factory. Ministry of Economics informed Prime Ministry about these
problems on 4 June 1941. The situation would affect both beet cultivation area
and sugar production. There were four problems that they presented to Prime
Ministry. Firstly, in Thracian villages there was a general tendency to migration.
Factory management distributed some amount of advance payment to peasants
to lessen this tendency. Although all efforts, cultivation area of Alpullu Factory
decreased from 140,000 decares to 126,000 decares. In spite of these complaints,
beet cultivation area increased twofold in ten years. Secondly, all men as old as 40
years old were taken into military service. Lack of manpower caused failures in
beet cultivation and transportation. Thirdly, decrease in peasants’ transportation
facilities 40 caused some additional problems in factory’s operations (Damlıbağ, 2017).

could work with lower production level or maybe it would experience some
pauses in its operations. Lastly, if bridge renovation in between Edirne and
Alpullu was not complete before the beginning of campaign, harvest of the
region could not be reached to factory. 20,000 tons estimated beet harvest could
not process by factory and this situation greatly harmed peasants. Factory’s
yearly yield also diminished approximately 3000 tons sugar