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Kim Jong Il Visits Exhibition of High-Yielding Crops

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, September 18 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Il, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army, gave field guidance to the work in the field of agriculture, looking round the exhibition of high-yielding crops. On display at the exhibition were high-yielding grain crops, vegetables, industrial crops and other agricultural products from various army and civilian farms, farm-machines and seed-selecting and storing facilities.
    After going round the exhibits, he highly appreciated the achievements made by the scientists and technicians in the field of agriculture and agricultural workers, greatly pleased to learn that they have laid a solid material and technical foundation for massively cultivating high-yielding varieties suited to the climatic and soil conditions of the country and bringing about a leaping boost in the agricultural production through vigorous endeavors to put agriculture on a scientific and modern basis and the People's Army, in particular, is admirably playing a pace-setter's role in the implementation of the WPK's policy for the agricultural revolution.
    Then he set forth on the spot tasks which would serve as guidelines in rapidly developing agriculture.
    Noting that it is a main link in the chain of efforts to implement the policy for the agricultural revolution to bring about a signal turn in the seed improvement, he underscored the need to actively apply latest science and technology to this end.
    The agricultural field should channel great efforts into obtaining a variety of good seeds suited to the climatic and soil conditions of the country, he said, calling for producing more varieties that yield rich crops while requiring less fertilizers, the high-yielding seeds which need a short time for growth and stand cold and the seeds that remain unaffected by such natural disasters as drought, rain and wind, frost and damage by harmful insects.
    He said that only by promoting the scientific and technological revolution in agriculture it is possible to place agriculture on an industrial, modern and scientific basis and develop the agricultural productive forces at a high rate on the basis of the latest science and technology and bring about a signal boost in the agricultural production.
    The scientific researchers in the field of agriculture should satisfactorily solve the issue of bringing about a signal turn in the seed improvement, farming technique and methods and other scientific and technological problems arising in implementing the WPK's policy for the agricultural revolution, he noted.
    He underlined the need to produce and supply more modern farm machines, fertilizers and agricultural chemicals so that the farmers may do all farm work including sowing, rice transplantation, weeding and harvesting with the help of machines and chemistry.
    He called on all farms to apply greater quantities of good quality organic fertilizers to all paddy and non-paddy fields to turn them into fertile fields and ensure scientific irrigation by creating ample conditions for it including the digging of water holes.
    In order to give full play to the advantages of the socialist collective economy it is necessary to further improve and perfect the system and method of socialist management and operation of the agricultural cooperative economy as required by the changed circumstances and the developing reality, he stressed.
    He was accompanied by Premier of the Cabinet Pak Pong Ju, Vice-Chairman of the National Defence Commission of the DPRK Yon Hyong Muk and others.