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Over 1.7 Million People Help Farmers on May 19

Korean Central News Agency of DPRK via Korea News Service (KNS)

    Pyongyang, May 21 (KCNA) -- More than 1.7 million people including officials of ministries and national institutions, workers and office workers Thursday helped farmers in farming in response to the militant appeal of the Party to mobilize all labor forces in doing farm well this year. Upon hearing the joint New Year editorial, senior officials and officials of the State Planning Commission, the Ministry of Chemical Industry and the Ministry of Light Industry sent fertilizers, fuel oil, small farm implements and others to the countryside with their sincerity from the outset of the year. They are now out in helping and stepping up rice-transplantation as scheduled.
    Aware that labour assistance is important to finish the rice-transplantation in time, officials of the Central Committee of the Kim Il Sung Socialist Youth League, the Ministry of Metal and Machine-Building Industries and the Ministry of Food Procurement and Administration went to farms from the beginning of the rice-transplantation to help farmers in harrowing, building the ridges of rice-field plots and plucking rice seedlings and encourage them. The rice-transplanting campaign is also helped by all provincial, city and county organizations.
    In South Hwanghae and South Phyongan provinces, workers, office workers and housewives, more than twice at the same time last year, have turned out in helping the farmers in plucking rice seedlings, building waterway, weeding in maize fields and other farming work.
    Those in Pyongyang and North Phyongan and North Hwanghae provinces also helped farmers in rice-transplantation.