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DPRK Garbed in Green

KCNA

    Pyongyang, October 24 (KCNA) -- Activities for garbing the whole country in green are being dynamically conducted in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. According to the data available at the Ministry of Land and Environment Preservation, more than one billion trees of good species such as pine-nut tree, larch tree and acacia have been planted in tens of thousands of hectares over the past three years.
    The government worked out a ten-year plan of afforestation till Juche 99 (2010) and, as part of this plan, is directing great efforts to the production of saplings.
    Brisk activities are being conducted to increase the acreage of sapling fields, collect seeds of trees of good species and disseminate technologies for multiplying trees in a short span of time.
    In the country there are a hundred and tens of sapling nurseries covering thousands of hectares. Their annual sapling production amounts to hundreds of millions.
    The Sapling Station under the Taesongsan Bureau nurses much more than one million saplings of 50 species which grow quickly and are of value in decoration and use to plant in Mt. Taesong and Moran Hill. Among the saplings are cryptomeria, willow and poplar trees.
    The cultivation of saplings and plantation of trees are also undertaken by institutions of all levels, schools and cooperative units.