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Kim Jong Il Gives On-site Guidance to Agricultural Field

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 20 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, visited a farm under KPA Unit 534 to give on-site guidance to the agricultural field. He was accompanied by KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong, and Kim Kuk Thae, Ri Yong Chol, Pak Nam Gi and others.
    He saw simple and efficient irrigation facilities and various serviceable farm machines invented and manufactured to suit the topographical conditions of the country. He was greatly satisfied to learn that the farm has increased the grain production by introducing a modern irrigation system and done farming with ease through the comprehensive mechanization.
    After hearing a report on the farming situation from the officials of the farm in fields, he learned in detail about the conditions of the second crop farming.
    He looked round the newly built Kunmin grain processing factory on the farm.
    He acquainted himself with the construction of the factory equipped with the latest processing facilities, going round its interior and watching the work done there. He appreciated the efforts made by the builders, greatly pleased to see the modern factory successfully built through the concerted efforts of servicemen and people.
    At the end of the inspection of the farm, he laid down on the spot important tasks which would serve as guidelines in making leaping progress in the agricultural production including double cropping.
    He proposed a task for doing two-crops-a-year farming in a big way.
    Noting that a great reserve for increasing the agricultural production in the country where the cultivated land is limited lies in doing well the two-crops-a-year farming, he stressed that this farming means an intensive farming method suited to the country's actual conditions.
    The experience of this farm showed in practice that what is most important in this double-cropping is to properly select seeds, solve the problem of acute shortage of labour force, increase the fertility of soil and fully introduce the irrigation system, he said, once again specifying the ways to do so.
    Pointing out that it is the basic requirements of the Juche-based method of farming to distribute crops and their strains to suit the characteristics of the specific area on the principle of the right crop to the right soil and the right crop in the right time and put the manuring system on a scientific and technological basis, he underscored the need for each locality and each farm to correctly establish the land cultivation system to suit its actual conditions and develop the farming method and technique based on it and apply them to the farm work.
    Noting that a radical turn in the seed improvement would make it possible to boost the agricultural production under a long-term plan and abide by the principle of the right crop to the right soil and the right crop in the right time, he called for actively applying the latest science and technology to effect a new radical turn in the seed improvement.