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Kim Il Sung's Efforts for Development of Poultry Farming

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, April 20 (KCNA) -- Many modern chicken plants have been constructed in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The foundation for ever developing poultry farming in the DPRK was laid long ago by President Kim Il Sung, who made all efforts to sufficiently provide the people with meat and eggs.
    In the post-war period when everything was reduced to ashes, he indicated ways for the development of the poultry farming and chose sites of several chicken plants.
    Prior to the 17th Enlarged Plenary Meeting of the 4th Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea in April Juche 57 (1968), he called at a chicken plant and gave officials and workers a detailed explanation of all matters, big and small, arising in construction and management of a modern chicken plant including the building of coops, chicken-breeding and veterinary and anti-epidemic services.
    Basing himself on a deep understanding of the benefit of quail, he took relevant steps for breeding quails on an extensive scale.
    In April 1969 when officials in the field of poultry farming presented quail eggs to him on the occasion of his birthday, he refused to receive them, saying that it would be better to hatch more quails rather than eating them.
    He visited a farmhouse in the suburbs of Pyongyang several times towards the end of the 1960s to acquaint himself with the method of chicken-breeding. On this basis, he gave instructions to breed chicken through a mass movement at the national meeting of workers of poultry farming in March 1970.
    Thanks to his energetic guidance, modern chicken plants including the Mangyongdae Chicken Plant were constructed in different parts of the country from the middle of the 1960s to the beginning of the 1970s to boost the egg production capacity rapidly in the country.
    Under the wise leadership of Kim Jong Il, who is carrying the instructions of the President into practice, more chicken plants have made their appearances in all parts of the country in recent years.