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Powerful Assistance to Agriculture

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK

    Pyongyang, January 14 (KCNA) -- The whole Party and country and all the people are rendering assistance, labor and material, to the rural communities in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, in response to the call of the joint New Year editorial released by the leading newspapers of the country. Ministries and natinonal institutions stand in the van of the assistance.
    The State Planning Commission provided a large quantity of materials including fertilizer, various kinds of small farm implements and rubber tube to the Porim Co-op Farm in Onchon County, South Phyongan Province and the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications 5,000-odd square meters of vinyl sheets, over 50 tractor accessory parts of five kinds and other materials to the Tokje Co-op Farm in Phyongwon County.
    The Ministry of Railways is making up trains in a rational way so as to concentrate efforts on the transport of farming materials to different areas.
    People of provinces, towns and units have turned out in assistance to the countryside. Pyongyang mobilized more than 1,100 trucks and 560 tractors to carry tens of thousands of tons of compost and hundreds of thousands of small farming tools to co-op farms in its suburbs.
    North Hwanghae Province supplied 137,000 pieces of medium and small-size farming implements and 70,000-odd tons of compost to co-op farms in the province. Similar assistance was rendered to rural communites in South Hamgyong, North Phyongan and Kangwon Provinces, too.
    Rim Myong Chan-led unit of the Korean People's Security Forces drove more than 100 lorries loaded with farming materials to various farms.
    Priority is given to the production of equipment and materials needed for farming at the Kum Song Tractor Plant, the Namhung Youth Chemical Complex and many other industrial establishments.