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Efforts focused on two-crop farming in DPRK

KCNA

    Pyongyang, July 30 (KCNA) -- The agricultural sector of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea puts particular stress on two-crop-a-year farming in a bid to boost crop yield, taking into consideration the nation's disadvantage of limited farming acreage. Every year rural communities try to widen the areas under two-crop-a-year cultivation on the basis of experience they gained in the two-crop farming.
    Last autumn and this spring seeds of wheat and barley were sown in 3,000 hectares of dry paddies in Yonbaek plain, South Hwanghae Province and in 100 hectares of Kwaksan plain, North Phyongan Province.
    This year the county town cooperative farm in Phyongwon county, South Phyongan Province singled out nearly forty percent of the total rice fields for two-crop farming.
    The northern highlanders including in Jagang and North Hamgyong provinces are doing fairly well in growing two crops a year on the principle of the right crop on the right soil in right time.
    The high-yielding varieties of wheat and barley with shorter growing period are being developed.
    And the level of agricultural mechanization and irrigation is on the increase. This year the first crops in the west coastal area including South Phyongan Province and Nampho city benefited much from the completion of a waterway powered by the natural flow.
    Now main efforts are given to the tending of second crops.