Land Conservation in DPRK
Korean Central News Agency of DPRK
Pyongyang, November 30 (KCNA) -- Great efforts have been made to conserve land in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in recent years.
Various projects to plant trees for land conservation, protect terraced plots and edges of paddy and non-paddy fields and improve rivers, streams and waterways have been carried on in the provinces, cities and counties of the country.
More than 56 kilometers of dykes for controlling tidewater damaged by a high tidal wave have been revamped or reinforced with 400,000-odd cubic meters of earth and 120,000-odd square meters of stones in Haeju, Ongjin, Pyoksong, Chongdan, Unryul and Kangryong of South Hwanghae Province on the western coast.
South Phyongan Province has repaired or reinforced hundreds of kilometers of dykes for controlling tidewater, improved long water channels and planted tens of thousands of trees to protect terraced plots.
People in the mountainous areas of Maengsan, Nyongwon, Yangdok and Sinyang have created thousands of hectares of forests to protect land from flood.
Similar projects are going on in North Hwanghae and Kangwon Provinces and northern parts of the country.
North and South Hamgyong Provinces have made turf-covered ridges of terraced plots to prevent them from being washed away.
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