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Kim Jong Il Inspects Farm of KPA Unit

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, August 16 (KCNA) -- Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea and chairman of the National Defence Commission of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, inspected Farm No. 1116 of KPA Unit 534. He was accompanied by Yon Hyong Muk, vice-chairman of the DPRK National Defence Commission, KPA Generals Ri Myong Su, Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong and First Vice Department Directors of the WPK Central Committee Ri Yong Chol, Ri Je Gang and Ri Jae Il.
    He acquainted himself in detail with this year's farming, going round fields under a variety of crops of the farm for a long while.
    After watching various crops and sprinkling irrigation facilities on the fields, he noted with satisfaction that the employees of the farm have brought about good crops by putting the farming on a scientific and technological basis.
    After going round the farm, he set forth on the spot important tasks which would serve as guidelines in radically increasing the agricultural production.
    What is essential for farming is to select good seeds, he noted, underscoring the need to pay primary attention to the work to research into and cultivate many more high-yielding varieties suited to the climatic and soil conditions, complete Korean style farming system and actively introduce advanced farming methods.
    He called for turning all the paddy and non-paddy fields of the socialist homeland into a fertile land through vigorous endeavours to make them fertile. He underlined the need to conduct a widespread drive to increase the production of good quality organic fertilizers to this end.
    As water is one of the essential elements for the growth of plants it is necessary to put irrigation on a scientific basis to suit the characteristics of crops in each period of their growth, he noted.
    He called for applying insecticide in good time to ensure that crops grow healthy free from any damage by harmful insects.
    He earnestly instructed all the leading officials in the field of agriculture to scrupulously organize the work to this end and tenaciously push ahead with it in a revolutionary fighting spirit just as the officers of the KPA do in order to realize President Kim Il Sung's lifelong desire to enable the people to eat rice with meat soup in the present generation without fail.