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It introduced into agriculture

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 7 (KCNA) -- The agricultural sector is focusing on it and its introduction in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Agronomists of the computer centre at the Academy of Agricultural Science have already gained some successes in the work -- the comprehensive estimation of the country's land resources productivity, dividing of agro-ecological zones, crop growth forecast, distribution of varieties, selecting of the right time to manure and cultivate crops during the sowing and rice-transplanting season and according to farming operations, decision of a crop estimate and so on.
    These research hits are now available to the agricultural producers across the country through the network.
    They were applied last year to the farming of the Migok Cooperative Farm in Sariwon city, North Hwanghae Province.
    This year South Hwanghae and other provinces will benefit from them.
    Ri Yong Gu, director of the computer centre, said that the application of high technology to agricultural production is not only an important potentiality for increasing the country's agricultural production under the present investment environment but a prerequisite to the it industry.
    The Ministry of Agriculture plans to launch the it-based output increase programme as a nationwide undertaking and is working on the application of agricultural information.