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Inter-Korean Committee for Agricultural Cooperation Meets

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

    Kaesong, August 20 (KCNA) -- The first meeting of the North-South Committee for Agricultural Cooperation took place in Kaesong from Aug. 18 to 19 under an agreement reached at the 15th north-south ministerial talks. Present there were Vice-Minister of Agriculture Mun Ung Jo who is the north side's chairman of the committee and its members and Vice-Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Ri Myong Su who is the south side's chairman of the committee and its members.
    Both sides adopted an agreement.
    The agreement deals with the issue related to the cooperation to be conducted by the north and the south after choosing coop farms in certain areas and the issue of boosting it on the basis of its success, the issue of having positive cooperation in rendering help in the provision of equipment for the modern production, processing and storage of seeds from 2006, and the issue of conducting cooperation in the fields of agricultural science and technology including the exchange of superior genetic resources and breeding and cultivation technology, the technology of developing and producing biological pesticide, the establishment of the system whereby to forecast the growth of agricultural crops and conduct strict control over the damage to be done by harmful insects, and the visit of agricultural experts from the south side. It also deals with the issue of developing cooperation in stock-breeding, pomiculture, vegetable cultivation, sericulture and cultivation of industrial crops and other fields and cooperating with each other in the efforts to increase forestry resources by creating nurseries and relieving forestry of harmful insects to conserve land and ecological environment. They agreed to hold working contacts whenever necessary to systematically step up the agricultural cooperation and discuss technical issues and consult and decide on the date and venue of the second meeting of the committee by way of exchanging documents.