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Achievements in Forestry

KCNA

    Pyongyang, August 12 (KCNA) -- Forestry workers of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea have made great achievements in the efforts to make a comprehensive and effective use of the country's rich forest resources and increase the timber production, encouraged by "On Further Developing Forestry", a historic letter of leader Kim Jong Il published in August Juche 81 (1992). Some time ago, the Ministry of Forestry established some 40 forestry stations and timber stations to provide a timber production capacity of hundreds of thousands of cubic metres.
    It has also employed various kinds of transport methods and means including rafting, cableway and logging railroad so as to consolidate the material and technical foundations for the simplification of the production processes and the comprehensive mechanization and modernization of the forest railway transport.
    Priority has been given to surveys of forest resources to find out new woodlands.
    According to data available at the ministry, more than 1,685,367,000 trees have been planted in 581,280 hectares of forests over the past ten years. And trees in 105,720 hectares of forests have been replaced with those of economic value. Computers have been introduced in management activities and more than 3,000 scientific and technical inventions made for increased timber production.
    The Kanggye and Jonchon wood processing factories, the Musan and Hamju forestry machine factories, the Unsan Forest Power Saw Factory and other factories in the forestry sector have been modernized.